The Horn's: Easter and Mandi's Birthday 4/4/10

So today was my birthday and Easter all rolled into one. I woke up this morning to my husband making breakfast for me. So sweet! Than we went to Grandma Krafft's house for brunch. While we were there we felt one of the largest earthquakes in our area in over 18 years! It was a 6.9 earthquake in Mexicali and it could be felt in parts of Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. It was by far one of the strongest earthquakes I have been in. We were all in Grandma's kitchen and all of a sudden it felt like a huge gust of wind was blowing outside and than the ground started rolling. Such a weird feeling. It made me a little motion sick from it all. It seemed like the quake lasted for a long time, but it only lasted for 30 seconds. In situations like that it seems like 10 minutes! It just kept going and going. I wasn't sure if it would get worse or not. At one point I said "should we be standing under a door frame or something?" I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but I still felt pretty calm through out it. Nothing broke, the house just rocked and rolled a bit. I did hear from other people that they had damage in their home and even part of I-8 was affected by the quake and slowed down traffic around the damaged area. But all in all thankfully everything was ok and we all moved on with our Easter celebrations feeling small after shocks here and there. I mentioned the last time my birthday landed on Easter I was 16 years old and it snowed in Tucson. This time an earthquake hit. I would much rather the snow. ;o)

After we left Grandma's we went to Aunt Shadie's house to have Easter dinner with Don's Dad's side of the family. All the Grandkids got to do an Easter egg hunt and this year just so happened to be Jackson's first Easter egg hunt. Of course with help from his Daddy... :o) Next year he will be able to hold his own basket and walk around to look for eggs, I can't wait! Anyways, here are some pictures from today...