Gwen's Wanderlust: Happy Easter!

This Easter was spent with all my siblings, my parents, my sisters' 'significant others' and Moira's mother-in-law, sister-in-law and beau. Gabe ended up spending Easter with his family in Pomona (but one of these days soon you'll see him at a family gathering, I promise).

We had a really yummy meal and easy going conversation for dinner. Moira even made these adorable chick cutouts for part of the table decoration (sorry for the blurred picture):

Here's my family 'hamming' it up for the camera:

For dessert I attempted to make a garden themed cake with a new cake pan my mom had given me for Christmas. The mini cakes turned out awesome (carrot cake can't go wrong), but frosting those suckers was another story. I ended up putting some of the 'veggies' on a round cake that I decorated with a bit too bright pink and purple cream cheese frosting...but the crushed oreos for dirt and the overall affect was still cute (in my humble opinion). Judge for yourself (btw...the vegetables were suppose to be carrots, lettuce, pea pods and radishes...a stretch...I know).

After dinner we all convened in the living room, or should I say Becker Bowling Alley for a little single elimination Wii Bowling. All 12 of us participated and boy all I can say is we are one competitive bunch. Even the newbies were 'in it to win it'. It took 3 rounds, but in the end, my sister's boyfriend, Jon was the victor. Though Moira gave him a run for his money in the finals.

Doesn't Jon look happy he won?

After all that fun, we all got our Easter Baskets (hey, I may be 36 but I still am a candy loving girl at heart!) and hopped along our merry ways.

Some parting shots of some of the participants of the Easter Festivities at the Becker Household:

Moira & Sheona (can you tell they're my sisters?)