Pork (PIG) for Easter dinner

Happy Birthday to Crista on Tuesday!  She will be 23.  It was fun having her family down for the weekend.  They got here in time for Roy's annual Scout fundraiser--a dinner and an auction.  Our ward will certainly miss Roy next year when someone else has to take over.  It has really been Roy's baby since he started it 3 or 4 years ago.  Here's Ruby wearing Ori's hat:

Roy is in the background, heading up the auction.
I'm his "Vanna White" holding up the items for auction and
being Roy's right hand woman.

The auction was successful again this year.  It's been a great activity to help the scouts with their budget for the year.  It also helps the young women as the scouts draw less from the ward budget.

Earlier on Saturday Roy and I took Hyeji and Gunnar to Chick-fil-et for lunch, and the play Beauty and the Beast afterward.  They seemed to enjoy it quite a bit and were both very well behaved.  Hyeji thought a couple of the characters were robots, but I told her they were all real people.

I can tell that many days are going to be taken up running around making decisions about the new house.  This past week we spent quite a few hours looking at home exteriors, brick and rock, to get an idea what we want.  We now have a foundation.  It sort of seems that things are progressing slowly, but there have been workers there nearly every day.  We also spent some time with the cabinet designer Thursday, to let him know what we want.

Adrienne could have used my help Wednesday when Gunnar got his cast off, but I was busy with house stuff, and Jieun was sick on Thursday and would have loved a little help, too, but... house stuff! I did skate for 30 minutes with Doyeon.  When I had to get off, she wasn't quite ready so I told her to skate while I took my skates off.  She was literally the only one on the ice.  I wish I'd taken a picture.

Roy bought this select chunk of meat from the Salt Lake Costco:

He brought it in the kitchen when Nick happened to be over with Ori.  He called Ori to come see the piggy.  I muttered, "dead piggy."  She looked at it and said "Dead Piggy."  She looked a little horrified.  I asked her if she was going to eat some of it on Sunday.  She said, "No, NO WAY."  I don't know if anyone snuck any on her plate or if she was true to her word.
This is what it looked like cooked:

I heard Roy telling one of our friends that it wasn't quite as moist as if he'd done a pork butt, but that it was still pretty good.  I think I hope that means he'll stick to pork butt in the future.  Actually, it was pretty good, but I had a hard time with the idea of it.  I mostly ate chicken--that he kindly cooked for some of us who were a bit more squeamish about the pig.  We had Christine and Steve, Peter and Ben for dinner.  Amelia and James didn't feel up to coming because of the removal of their tonsils last Wednesday.  This was our Easter dinner because Roy, Caitlyn and I will be out of town next week.  

It was great that it was nice weather so the kids could hunt for eggs and play in the yard.

Steve's plate.  He was a good sport and even took a leg

Adrienne baked a beautiful cake for Crista's birthday.  It was delicious, too!

Miracle of the week: Ori and Yuna playing well together in Ori's sandbox

As usual, Elise's family was in Texas, but we always appreciate the pictures. 

Ruby and Ori playing sweetly together while their parents went
to the temple dedication.

While we were at the Scout Auction, Caitlyn went to her first dance.  She had a very large group and quite a lot of fun, too.