Happy Easter!

 

Sorry it’s been awhile since my last blog post  We’ve been super busy.  I did want to get the Easter pictures up at least, but I will do a catch-up blog post in a week or two…

We started our Easter celebrations yesterday, when Kaitlyn helped make some cupcakes for after Easter dinner…

Then Kaitlyn colored eggs for the first time.  She enjoyed drawing on them with the “magic crayon”  before putting them in dye.  And yes, that is a garbage bag that I made her wear :)

Sunday morning, the Easter Bunny came while we were at church…

Checking out the basket for the first time…

She is my daughter!  Went straight for the chocolate…

Showing Daddy her chocolate bunny… 

Went for the bubbles next…

She kept putting on the bunny ears, jumping up and down, saying “hop, hop, hop”…

  

While it was in the 60s, it was kind of drizzly when it was time to hunt Easter eggs, so we went to Plan B and hid them in Kaitlyn’s room…  

Finally, when all that was done, we converted Kaitlyn’s crib into a big girl bed.  Bedtime should be interesting tonight!

HAPPY EASTER!

2011 AHL All Star Game in Hershey, PA

 

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2011

We started off the day at ZooAmerica…

Then we headed over to Chocolate World where we had lunch and made our own candy bars.  You pick your base (milk, dark, or white chocolate), then you pick up to 3 add-ins (the ones available when we were there were pretzels, chocolate chips, vanilla chips, crispy rice, cookie bits, and toffee), finally you design your own packaging.  Kevin chose a dark chocolate base with pretzels, cookie bits, and chocolate chips.  I chose a milk chocolate base with chocolate chips, cookie bits, and vanilla chips.  We both added candy sprinkles on top. 

Then we headed off to dinner at The Bear’s Den, which is the restaurant that is devoted to the Hershey Bears AHL team.  It’s filled with memorabilia from the team past and present.  The food was so great we ate dinner there every night…  

Then we were off to the Skills Competition.  This year they divided the teams into the western conference vs. the eastern conference.   Luke Adam was the Pirate’s player that was selected. We were supposed to have another player there too, but he was injured.  Below, Luke Adam is competing in the shooting accuracy competition…

Coco is the Hershey Bears’ mascot.  Kaitlyn was scared of him.

MONDAY, JANUARY 31

Kevin surprised me by taking Kaitlyn to the hotel pool and sending me off to the spa at The Hershey Hotel.  He had booked me for a whipped chocolate bath and a chocolate massage.  I left smelling like a yummy candy bar.

When we met up again afterwards, we headed back to Chocolate World.  Kaitlyn loved the ride telling us all about how chocolate was made.  It has a song that is almost as annoying as “It’s a Small World”.  We also took a chocolate tasting class.  Kaitlyn loved the Dessert Creation Studio.  We got the fondue and Kaitlyn got to paint with melted white chocolate that was colored with food coloring…  

Then we went to The Hershey Story Museum.  Kaitlyn really got into the interactive displays… 

Photos around town…

The Hershey factory

Gotta love the Hershey Kiss street lights… 

Finally, we were off to the All-Star Game…  

One of the Pirate’s mascots, Salty Pete.  Kaitlyn turned around and not realizing he was there just about jumped out of her skin.  She screamed loud enough that everyone in our section looked at her.

One of the highlights of the game is watching all the mascots have their own hockey game during intermission…

Coco, the Hershey mascot, just “beat up” Tux, the mascot for the Wilkes-Barre Penguins.

After the game… The Eastern Conference won…

Kaitlyn completely passed out after the game… 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

Unfortunately, we had to head home.  First, though we made a stop in Hoboken, NJ.  I am a big fan of the show Cake Boss on TLC, so we swung by Carlo’s Bakery where the show is filmed.  We didn’t see Buddy or any of the family, but we did get a bunch of yummy treats, including the cake below…