Bean Boozled

So you may have noticed from the photo in my previous post that the Easter bunny brought me a box of "Bean Boozled" Jelly Bellies. They are Jelly Bellies with weird and gross flavors BUT they also look identical to some of the actual tasty flavors. Ever since he saw them, Alek has been dying to try them out. For some bizarre reason, he was especially excited about the pencil shaving, baby wipes and skunk spray flavors. Well tonight I decided we needed to break them out and give 'em a whirl.

Juju gets ready to try either Toothpaste or Berry Blue, Alek has either Black Licorice or Skunk Spray and Nik has either Moldy Cheese or Caramel Corn:


Clearly Alek got Skunk Spray... Nik got Caramel Corn, but it turns out he's not a fan of that either:


This time they decided to try the same one. Who got Juicy Pear and who got Booger?


Ewww... turns out they were both Booger!


So here are the final ratings according to Nik and Alek (who were the only ones brave enough to try them all.)
One being the absolute nastiest and ten being the most palatable:
10 - Toothpaste
09 - Black Pepper
08 - Pencil Shavings
07 - Baby Wipes
06 - Ear Wax
05 - Rotten Egg
04 - Moldy Cheese
03 - Booger
02 - Skunk Spray
and the nastiest Jelly Belly flavor ever to be conceived....
01 - Vomit

Happy Easter!

Today was an absolutely beautiful day in Colorado. The Easter bunny found me and he brought me lots of tempting treats. There were the traditional Peeps and chocolate bunny and also some yummy Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares, Butterfinger eggs and jelly beans.

Since Sam was out of town, I also did the traditional Easter pictures on the front porch with the kids before church. We did the nice one for mom:

And then the kids did a pose of their own:


After church, I decided we needed to get out and enjoy the day, so I took the kids to the park. Some of us played on the swings:

Some of us played basketball:

And some of us just soaked up the rays:

But we all enjoyed the first super nice spring day!

Pysanky

Tonight we dyed Easter eggs. In Puc' Family tradition, we decorated them using a method called pysanky. Basically you use a stylus to make designs on your egg with wax and then put your egg in some dye. After you get it the shade you want, you take it out, make more designs on it with wax and continue like this for several layers. When you are done, you melt the wax off and you have really cool multi-colored eggs. Obviously we don't get as fancy as traditional pysanky, but we still have a good time.

So after about a week and a half of being miserable, I finally broke down and went to the doctor for this cough/cold/sinus thing that won't leave. The good news is it's not bronchitis (which is what I had feared) but I do have a sinus infection and it is aggravating my lungs and making me hack. The bad news is that while I did get a prescription for the sinus thing and the cough, the cough med was a $50 co-pay... something everyone neglected to tell me until after the prescription was filled, AND it's a liquid, my most hated form of medicine. I really hate being able to taste my meds. Luckily, they were able to flavor it--cotton candy/strawberry. (No one asked me what flavor I wanted first.)

Hopefully now I can kick this so I can get back to normal... because I just don't have time to be sick!



Did I mention they gave me a big syringe-thingy to take it with?

I'm Baaaaaack!

Uh, so it has not escaped my notice that it may have been a teensy bit of time since I have posted. So, in an effort to get my sister to start her own blog, I have agreed to pick mine up again. (Not that there was much going on to begin with... I mean, one whole post, but still.)

So, Mandy, I started... you're up!