April Fools Day!

Was anyone part of any good jokes today? Every year this is ANOTHER one of our family traditions to take advantage of April Fools Day. Usually this is something that just my dad and I do because we're the only ones the a) remember and b) care.

I still like this tradition (unlike the robin tradition) because I sometimes come up with some pretty good jokes. My favorite one was a couple years ago when I found a really funny smiley face icon with lots of colors and wrote Happy April Fools above it and made it as big as an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper. Then I had my mom print a couple pages with the graphic on it and put them upside down back into my dad's printer. So, when he was working later that day and needed to print something he walked over to the printer and the entire background of the page was my April Fools joke! Ha ha, I'm so funny.

Does anyone else have any good pranks they've pulled?

robin tradition

One of my family's traditions is to find the first robin every year. I can't remember when this started, but ever since I was a little girl I remember talking to my parents and sister about being the first one to see the robin. I'm pretty sure I won most of the time because I was so competitive, but every so often my dad, mom or even Amber would see the first one.

Today my dad announced that he heard a report that someone saw a robin today and put us all on alert. I've been staring out my office window all day looking, but I guess the first place robins go in the spring happens to be someplace else other than downtown Minneapolis.

So, tomorrow afternoon when I get off of work early for Good Friday, I'm going to be driving around looking for a robin. If anyone sees one, let me know and I'll drive over! (Hopefully my family doesn't read this and start looking more intently too, the best way to win is to quietly search)

What traditions do you have?