{"id":509438,"date":"2008-03-27T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/03\/27\/easter-joy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T05:25:05","slug":"easter-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/03\/27\/easter-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter JOY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DH served on the Worship team for all three services on Eater.&nbsp; Later, that afternoon, we went to our pastor&#8217;s house for a potluck dinner.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2119\/2383771976_4e9ab5e6cf.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our pastor&#8217;s wife (and our friend), Ann, has a terrific sense of humor.&nbsp; She offered up her microwave for the festivity known as &quot;Peeps Jousting&quot;.&nbsp; Everyone gets a Peep and names it.&nbsp; (Mine was Petunia).&nbsp; Each Peep is impaled with a toothpick and two Peeps are placed face to face in the microwave.&nbsp; The microwave is turned on and as the Peeps swell, their toothpicks stab each other.&nbsp; The first one to deflate, loses. (Petunia went down in the first round&#8230;) Winners get a new Peep and advance to the next round.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2108\/2383772496_5d6a0f3065.jpg?v=0\" \/>First round competitors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our gracious hosts, including Brian&#8217;s girlfriend Sarah, visiting from California&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3166\/2382942439_4d06743c76.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2154\/2382943049_6e971b13f7.jpg?v=0\" \/>Sue and Ann<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2150\/2383774174_7e5608c116.jpg?v=0\" \/>&#8216;R&#8217; and Mimi<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2261\/2382944307_3a67134597.jpg?v=0\" \/>Pastor Mark and &#8216;A&#8217;, showing off his bounty!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2330\/2383775246_3fdae4ef19.jpg?v=0\" \/>&#8216;R&#8217; found money in his eggs.&nbsp; He kept saying &quot;I&#8217;m RICH!!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>OK, back to Peeps jousting&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>BEFORE<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2370\/2382945681_e37bcac9f8.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AFTER<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2014\/2382946653_8c4ae8b71d.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crowd anxiously awaits the results of the match&#8230;(note: they are all staring at the microwave; DH is shouting encouragement to his Peep)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2164\/2383777918_d4faa57bdb.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe Finalists!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2219\/2382948833_983692e074.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Grand Finale &#8211; A Peeps Pyramid&#8230;.BEFORE&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3136\/2382949913_dee44a84ff.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AFTER&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3139\/2383781502_93881e4f91.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nAnn showing &#8216;R&#8217; how to fling a well aimed monkey at her son, Brian&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2409\/2382952429_1337a5fd81.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DH served on the Worship team for all three services on Eater.&nbsp; Later, that afternoon, we went to our pastor&#8217;s house for a potluck dinner.&nbsp; Our pastor&#8217;s wife (and our friend), Ann, has a terrific sense of humor.&nbsp; She offered up her microwave for the festivity known as &quot;Peeps Jousting&quot;.&nbsp; Everyone gets a Peep and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}