Revenge of the BUNNY

Springtime brings so many wonderful things to Wyoming...things like, mud, snow, and wind. But it also brings the Easter Bunny. We were pretty positive that the Easter Bunny would not find our current house considering we moved recently. So, we decided to head off to Adam's parents house and hope that the big hopper could find us there.

Obviously, one has to do certain things to ensure that the Easter Bunny can find your house. Things like paint eggs. Over the years, Camille has become a pro at painting eggs. Adam would be considered a semi-pro; however, he is definatley a pro at eating chocolate eggs (especially those Cadbury ones with the hard shell...mmmm, slobbering thinking about it).

Adam's mom also was sure the Easter Bunny would find the house, and so she helped out with the painting. After so many years of putting up with little boys destroying and painting everything but eggs at Easter, she thoroughly enjoyed painting a few. (note: She even told a story of when Adam was a little boy and mistook a dye pellet for a smartie, and ate it. Adam's tongue was purple for a week and she was sure he had poisoned himself. As she was telling the story Adam was slowly putting down the pellets that he thought were smarties.) Adam was worried that, given his age mentally, he would spill something on himself. He therefore borrowed a shirt from his dad. The wording on the shirt says it all... (Note: who knows what Adam is doing in this picture. Maybe he just ate a dye pellet.) Each year we attempt to make funny/clever eggs. This year Adam started things out with an angry, old, yellow man (comb-over included). Camille was instantly attracted to this yellow man and attempted to get fresh with him.
These are the finished products. For a quick game, see if you can spot: Angry yellow old man, French Man, Monster Man, Piggy, BYU Egg, Wyoming Egg, Pirate Egg, Cher, Smiley face egg, Open Wide Egg, Dinosaur Egg, Cyclops, and the Sharpie Marker used to make all these eggs. As with any good battle, there are some casualties. We only had one egg suffer a gruesome death. His guts exploded all over the Egg Cooker. If this is too graphic for your, then please turn away...

Adam's mom was yelling "Nooooooo!!" in dramatic fashion. She was so overcome with emotion at the death of this egg. To console her loss, she cooked another dozen eggs and ate a handful of chocolate eggs. This seamed to calm her down considerably.

Many of you did not know that Camille had such big, beautiful blue eyes. Adam didn't, he always thought they were brown. But weird things happen on Easter. Heck, Camille could have been a were-Rabbit, and her big blue eyes were the first things to change. Adam said he would be ok if she were a were-Rabbit, as long as she brought him an assortment of Deviled and Chocolate Eggs.

Hope everyone had a great Easter and will have a great spring.

Run to the hills...

When we first met Camille loved to brag about how cool her sporty little white Mazda Protege was. She would tell Adam that it had a wicked spoiler on the back and very easily could have been one of the cars in "The Fast and the Furious." Her favorite feature was the sun roof, because Camille would roll it back and let the wind whisp through her hair, frolicking and laughing at all the other cars as she weaved between traffic. (Note: you can see Adam's totally cool truck in this picture too.)Adam's side of the story of the Mazda Protege is a bit different than the love-fest that Camille has in her mind. The one word Adam uses to describe the Mazda is "CRAMPED." When Adam would drive it was almost like his knees were up around his ears. He has more than a few dents on his forehead from blasting the roof as he got in or out. Despite its small stature, it got great gas mileage, and got us to Laramie and back.We have had some great times in this little car. Camille has truly loved this little car and it has served our little family well....BUT......If you look at the back of Camille's car, you will see the spoiler. The key part is the "SPOIL."Camille got her Dream car this past week. We are doing our best to stimulate the economy...actually, it is a Toyota...so, we are stimulating the global economy. It is a 4Runner, which in Adam's opinion is the SUV to all Granolas/Tree Huggers/Environmentalists.

Adam fully expects to see Camille step out of the 4Runner wearing Birkenstocks, a long levi skirt, straight plain hair, and a tie-dye T-shirt (heck, she could even have hairy armpits). As we write Camille is looking at purchasing a variety of bumper stickers that say things like, "Save a deer, kill a hunter," and "Whales have feelings too." The only saving grace to the granola car is the fact that we have a major grill on the front of it. We did not install this, we were lucky enough to have it included. Adam is ready to take this baby on the open road and take out some wildlife...he supposes that it is anti-tree hugger enough to make the car a little more manly. He also fully intends to place a Christmas Wreath on the grill during the Holidays so the Phillips family can look as cool as the other truckers on I-80. Camille was so overcome with joy she couldn't keep her thumbs down.

It was a good thing we got the 4Runner when we did. In the past two weeks we have been blasted with snow and the little Mazda has been stuck in our driveway three times. We woke up the day after buying the 4Runner to a load of snow. Camille was able to safely drive to work...however, there is no sunroof with this vehicle...so there was no whisping, singing, or frolicking.