Well, it's nice to be back, and finally all caught up!
The twins birthday on Friday was a bunch of fun! We let them open presents early in the morning. Mary got 101 Dalmatians, with a stuffed Dalmatian, and a new
scooter. Leslie got Barbie in the Magic of Pegasus, and a stuffed Giselle doll, and a new scooter! They were thrilled with everything. At school, they were given birthday crown, had their names announced over the intercom, and were invited to the principal's office where he presented them with new books, with a personal message written inside (have I mentioned how much I love our principal?). After school, Alan and I took them to lunch. They chose McDonald's, so that's where we went. After lunch, I baked a small cake for them, and ordered their pizza for dinner. They spent the rest of the day riding their scooters. We ate the pizza and blew out candles on their small cake.
Saturday morning, we got up early and dyed Easter eggs. We only did a dozen, so it wasn't too much of a mess. I also threw together a Dreamsicle salad for our family get together. At 10:00, we went to my SIL's house for the egg hunt. We spent about an hour getting lunch ready (sloppy jose's, salad, chips, and coleslaw), then let the kids eat. We knew if we let them hunt, we'd never get any good food into them. After lunch we went outside to "hide" the goodies. This consists of just tossing handfuls of candy onto the lawn. No real hiding here! Then we let the kids loose! My kids were more interested in finding real eggs, and came home with 36 of them. I couldn't believe they would pass up candy for hard boiled eggs, but there you are!
Saturday night, Alan and I actually went out on a date! We went to a local steak place, and it was really nice! We haven't done a real date since January, so this was long overdue! Once we got home, we got the kids bathed, and put to bed. At that point, I made some hot cross buns for breakfast, and boiled another half dozen eggs for the Easter bunny to bring. While this was going on, Alan got a call from one of our niece's. She was 10 weeks pregnant, and had started to miscarry. She was being rushed to a hospital near us, but her husband couldn't come with her, since he had to stay with the children (they live in another town about an hour and a half away). She needed someone to be with her, so Alan went. They are actually quite close in age, and grew up as best friends. She did miscarry, and it was pretty rough. At about 10:30, her husband got there, so Alan could come home. By that time, I had the baskets filled and hidden away.
Sunday morning, we got up and I warmed up the hot cross buns for the kids. Then they all got into their new Easter clothes and we headed out for church. It was a really nice service. Once home, the kids hunted for their baskets and were thrilled with all the movies, candy and small toys the big bunny brought. At about 4:00, we went to Alan's brother's house for Easter dinner. We had been planning this for a while. I was to bring a ham, whipped maple sweet potatoes, jello salad an deviled eggs. They were going to make roast chicken, rice, broccoli and green salad. We would have Costco birthday cake for dessert. Sounds good, right? Well, we got there, and found that they had made nothing!!! That's right, NOTHING!!! When we got there, they boiled some potatoes, and mashed them, and that was it! Not even gravy! I was so mad!!!!! I told Alan that we will not be doing holiday's with that family again! This happened at Thanksgiving, too! I refuse to feed their whole family! Grrrrrr.
Anyway, that's where we are, now! Life is getting back to normal. Whatever that is!
Jen's going on the cruise! 
Iknow it was a different sort of Easter for you, but I think you were where you were needed the most.She is still consulting with surgeons. They have told her it isn't stage 4 but they aren't sure how bad it is yet.
I'm sorry you're in a foul mood. Hopefully a good night's sleep will make you feel better in the morning.
Depending on how that all shakes out it will cost us somewhere between $25 and $800. 
I should look at it for the middle portion of the trip instead of just the last 7 nights in case we can't get free dining and can get an AP rate for one chunk but not the other. 
The Easter Bunny was asked to make the eggs hard to find. I had fun helping the Easter Bunny with that request. It took them over an hour to find the eggs. They didn't find their baskets in the process of finding the eggs either.
