Happy Easter

We had a wonderful, quiet Easter at home this year. In years past we have invited friends over for a big Easter dinner but the holiday sneaked up on me this year, as everything is lately. I can't seem to plan ahead with a baby in the house and Easter sort of surprised me. So we did without the big dinner in order to lessen the stress of the holiday and celebrated by ourselves.

Sadie found a recipe for Bunny Buns in the Friend magazine so I made those for breakfast. I was up at three in the morning starting the dough so that we could actually eat them for breakfast. Charlotte was a good alarm clock! Neil made some bacon and cheesy eggs to go with them. It was a yummy breakfast. Oh, and the buns were just orange rolls. You can find the recipe here.

The kids baskets were filled with new books, bubble refills, pencils, and new sand buckets. It seems that every Easter my kids get new sand toys because the heat and sun here make their old toys brittle and they all need replaced every year. We passed on candy this year and instead I made Rice Krispie treats shaped like tulips, bunny heads, and butterflies and decorated them with colored sugar.

Charlotte seemed happy about her first Easter basket. Or maybe she just liked being outside.

The girls had matching yellow dresses with white polka dots. I made Madoc a yellow tie with blue and green polka dots to match the girls.
We dyed eggs the night before and filled some plastic eggs with coins. And for the first year here we had our egg hunt in grass and not rocks!

Sadie and Madoc had a good time finding their eggs. Madoc had a little help finding the last of them. Sadie had beat him to all the most obvious ones and so we pointed out the ones hiding amongst the tree branches.

All the loot!

We have late church (not over until five!) So we had the ham in the oven on a timer. When we got home it wasn't long until we were eating a fabulous dinner of ham, potato casserole, carrots, salad, and deviled eggs. Yum!