The Easter Bunny comes to our house on Saturdays, which is great for two reasons: 1) we don't have to deal with candy-crazy kids at church, and 2) it helps separate the secular from the spiritual. (Although in primary on Sunday the kids made paper eggs that "cracked" and opened to a picture of Christ. I think that confused Spencer more than not, but oh well. It was really cute and I got the lesson out of it!) I highly recommend asking Mr. Bunny to come early to your house next year; he's really quite accommodating. :)
Josh woke up before Spencer did on Saturday morning, around 7:45am. But Spencer was soon up and ran into the living room yelling "The Easter Bunny hid eggs!" It took us a while to get daddy out of bed, and even then he just slept on the chair! (Hey, every party needs a pooper...) (Plus, it's not like HE was up all night with the kids! What's up with that?! But that's another blog...)
Spencer loved the Easter baskets. He got a soccer ball and bubbles; Josh got sidewalk chalk and a rubber snake. (Don't laugh - rubber snakes are GREAT chew toys for babies. He loves it!) They each got those weird little balls with the sucker-thingies on the ends. Here's a picture of Josh chewing on one:
Josh got a token egg to chew on while Spencer hunted for eggs around the house. He was really excited and kept missing very obvious eggs. But at least he didn't just stop to eat the candy after each egg like last year!
It was WAY cold that morning, which is why the Easter Bunny hid the eggs inside. That also meant that we couldn't go out and play soccer. But that doesn't seem to stop Spencer from practicing his kicks in the house. (Which is probably a bad habit that I shouldn't encourage!)
On Sunday we had our friends Josh & Elizabeth Munz and Graham & Ashley Bodie over for our traditional Easter dinner. This was our third year in a row with them, and something I always really enjoy! We had ham, funeral potatoes, spinach salad with poppy seed vinagrette, rolls, Ashley's famous green beans with garlic sauce, and, of course, the famous Munz Lamb cake. I am beginning to forget what Easter was like without a lamb cake. :) I got the "honor" of eating the... rump... this year!
I used my antique Fuschia china for our dinner. It had been sitting in the garage since last summer when my dad brought it out for me. I figured it was time to pull it out; I had been putting off using it because I was afraid of chipping or breaking some of it. I was sure that my mom and her mom would come haunt me if anything happened to it! But then I decided what's the point of having nice china if you never use it, right? Besides, having my mom and grandma haunt me would make for some very interesting blogs.
I used "place eggs" to show people where to sit. I made super-fancy eggs this year, courtesy of my friend Martha Stewart. If you wrap the eggs in patterned silk and boil them, then the pattern goes onto the eggshell. (There's more to it than that - if you want instructions let me know.) It was really easy and I think they turned out really well. I got silk ties at Goodwill, so it was cheap, too. I felt like such the domestic goddess. :)
After dinner we enjoyed visiting and playing with the kids. Josh was in a good mood and was in that particular show-off form only babies can get away with. He cooed and talked and spit and was quite cute. He was even happier when we took off his clothes - he loves to be naked! Graham gave Josh a voice for the evening - here are a few excerpts:
All in all, a wonderful weekend!
1 comment:
Maren your eggs are beautiful! I'd love for you to share the directions with me.
~Gigi
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