Easter Weekend

We started Easter weekend by heading over to Sea World for a few hours. We like to go right when it opens and leave around lunch time when it starts to get really crowded. This time we checked out a few things that we had never seen before. And as usual, Riley had a blast playing in the Bay of Play. And from the looks of the pic below, Dan had fun as well ;)

Easter morning the kids woke up and went to check out the baskets that the Easter Bunny left. Riley was so impressed that the Easter Bunny knew that her brother was too young for candy which is why the Easter Bunny left him empty eggs in his basket, ha! *excuse Riley’s horrible case of bed head!

After checking out the goods we decided to go out for Easter Brunch, yum.

After brunch it was time for Riley to go hunt for Easter Eggs at our park. Her buddy Gabe was out there so he helped her to find her eggs!

Once Riley had all of her loot we headed back inside for a little R&R. Little did we know that we would be interrupted by the biggest earthquake to hit the area in 100 years!! That’s right, a magnitude 7.2 struck just below the Mexico/US border. Due to our close proximity to Mexico we felt it pretty dang good! In fact, they felt it all the way up to LA.

As soon as it hit, I yelled for my Mom to grab Denton and come under the doorway I was standing in. Dan and Riley were napping upstairs so I bolted up the stairs (hurdling the baby gate in the process, ha) to go grab Riley in case Dan was sleeping thru it. But of course, in Super Dad fashion he already had her and was standing under the doorway. I stayed with them until it ended (man it went on FOREVER) and then we all headed back downstairs to get info on it from the TV.

I must say in my 32 years as a Californian, that was by far the biggest one I have ever felt. Poor Riley was a little shook up (no pun intended). Probably because she saw the genuine fear in our faces, wondering if this was “the big one”. We calmed her down a little bit and then I suggested that she eat some of her Easter candy and suddenly she was all better - Smart girl, chocolate cures everything! All in all a pretty exciting few minutes, but we are eternally thankful that our house was built so well to withstand earthquakes!