Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Happy Easter!! :o)

I hope everyone had a great Easter Holiday & enjoyed some family time. I hadn't really planned anything ahead of time for the Holiday, It was Ashley's weekend with her Dad so I figured they would have something planned for her. Shawn let me know they didn't have anything planned when he asked if I did. So I put together a simple Easter dinner meal plan and got some eggs for coloring and hunting & invited Mom and Kristi over.

You know what, I hate plastic eggs. I love the tradition of coloring your eggs and then hunting them, I always had that growing up and I want it for my kids, Not to mention that eggs are so much better for the kids than candy stuffed ones. Abbey is still a bit too little to get in on the coloring so Ashley had one last year of coloring them all :) Here are a few shots of her coloring and decorating :)



After the decorating was done, Daddy Jake hid the eggs for us and then Ashley got to hunt :) She said we didn't hide them very well :-P Guess we'll have to make them tougher for her next year. LOL!!! Here are her goodies.


After the egg hunting was over we had dinner. I cooked a Ham, Asparagus, Red Beans and Homemade bread :) Here is a shot of the real goodies :)

I did put together a few things in bags for the girls "Easter baskets" I never can bring myself to buy the premade ones, So impersonal and expensive!!! Here were there goodies.


All in all it was a fun yet relaxing day and dinner was so good everybody was stuffed when it was over :)

Ashley had also had an Easter egg hunt with her school before they let out for spring break, here is a shot of her eggs from that hunt :)


Till next time!


3 comments:

Lil Knitter said...

That girl is a real egg coloring pro!
I agree with you about the plastic eggs...it's just not Easter without the real thing. And I hate those pre-made baskets. They are so expensive and full of cheap things.
Dinner looks YUMMY!! Sorry I missed out on that one. :P
Hugs!

Erin said...

I know what you mean about candy in the little plastic easter eggs. I've now convinced my parents that nickels (even pennies) will suffice but they put a few candies and some play jewelery in my girls eggs this year as well as toy cars and nickels for my son.

Erin
http://marriedsinglemomof3.blogspot.com/

Brie said...

The premade baskets just amaze me...even at 50% off after Easter they aren't worth it.
I love those Fisher Price phones! *memories* hee
Your dinner looks SO good.