Did anyone else luck out with a beautiful Easter weekend? Ours was lovely and with both girls home on Good Friday, it felt like an extra long weekend to boot. We started the weekend off with dying eggs.
Does anyone else blow the insides out? You poke a hole in each end with a safety pin, insert a little straw and blow! I remember doing this with my mom growing up and the girls thought it was hilarious.
Don’t mind her busted cheek; little bruiser took a tumble into the stairs.
I love all the natural Easter egg coloring tricks I’ve seen (beets, blueberries, turmeric), but we used the $1.99 dye kit and it provided us with 2 solid hours of fun!
I also worked through the sourdough process and have surprisingly really taken to using my new kitchen scale. We spent the afternoon planting the garden, washing pollen off the porch, and jumping through the sprinkler for the first time this season.
It was a Good Friday indeed.
Saturday we attended the cutest Bunny Brunch and Egg Hunt I’ve ever seen.
I’m always in awe of how talented my friends are with party and home design. I mean, just look at the detail of this tree!
We’re at such a fun age where the kids can just take off to play while the adults chit chat.
The adults chatted and sipped Bloody Marys, then the Easter Bunny himself showed up!
After that, 30 something excited kids took off on a mad dash to hunt eggs. It was such a wonderful morning!
The girls’ dresses are Eleanor Rose
Later that afternoon back at home, Mema stopped by for a couple hours so we set up camp in the backyard (complete with bonfire) and roasted all the little yellow Peeps we could find.
That night we left out carrots and water for the Easter Bunny. Sunday morning we were thrilled to find his tracks on the floor and baskets filled with goodies.
We had just enough time to hunt for the sparkly eggs he’d hidden around the living room before changing and making our way to church for a great message and incredible music. The rest of the afternoon we laid low, conquered the laundry, and set up for a week of spring break! All in all, a pretty incredible Easter weekend.
Do you have any Easter traditions?
I remember growing up the Easter Bunny would hide eggs all over our main floor. It was always a mad dash between my bro and me to see who could find the most Cadbury Eggs. (My memory tells me I always won… would you agree, bro? ;)) I remember one year we found one hiding inside the dining room table… in October. Needless to say, no one ate that one!
Heather @Lunging Through Life says
What a fun Easter party with your friends! I remember having to find our Easter basket on Easter morning around the house but the egg hunt was always saved for grandmas.
Kate says
I used to love waking up for an Easter egg hunt before getting ready to go to church! It was always in our backyard.
montessoriishmom says
I always loved dying eggs, it looks like you and your girls had a wonderful time 🙂
Annie says
What a fun party! As kids my parents hid eggs everywhere, inside and out. They always forgot to count how many eggs they hid so we’d find them throughout the week too!
I am totally jealous of your bread baking skills, something I’ve always wanted to learn but have o my tried once and failed miserably at. Maybe I’ll give bread baking a shot again! There is nothing better then fresh crusty bread and butter!
Brittany Dixon says
I don’t know if I’d say I had bread baking skills, but Jen’s step by step is perfectly detailed! I didn’t expect us to fly through a whole loaf so quickly, but like you said- bread and butter is heaven!
JOHN J STATHAS says
Easter Bunny made it to our house as well. Brittany, you still hold the record for the number of eggs found in record time!
Brittany Dixon says
My memory told me I was the record holder, but I sometimes it skews things in my favor 😉
Sherry Stathas says
Your Easter Bunny Brunch looked awesome–would hate to have to follow that 🙂 Kris even commented this past weekend, how you always found the most eggs–so your memory was validated on that one. Next year will have to blow out the eggs. Although we did have some pretty tie dyed deviled eggs.
Sue says
Sourdough is such a THING right now! A young couple in our small group has been baking bread for us and they gave me a starter last week. Then I find out my daughter in Dubai is making sourdough pancakes. It’s a worldwide movement!
I was glad to get your recommendation for a kitchen scale, so thanks for that. I’ve never had one–never used one–but I’m reading it’s important for sourdough bread-making, and also for macarons, which I plan to try soon.
Gotta love toasted Peeps with Mema–who is one of my favorite peeps herself!
Katie @ Live Half Full says
Loved the little bunny paws!
Do you plan on posting about your garden? I am new to gardening this year and would love a 101 since we’re about a month behind on plant dates in Illinois. 🙂
Brittany Dixon says
I’m such a novice gardener myself that I don’t think I’d have much advice to offer 🙂 I will say our favorite plants are snap peas (grow fast and furiously, and live through almost all neglect- ha) and cherry tomatoes (fun to snag and eat and grow fairly easily). We are trying watermelons this year because Hailey begged and banana peppers too. We’ll see how it goes! Good luck! It’s fun even if I’m not very good at it 😉
Julie says
What a wonderful wknd you had! I love your dress btw – you looked beautiful in it.
My grandparents always hid our Easter eggs inside the house, too (better hiding places & no weather worries). We also sometimes found eggs months later. 😀 I continued the tradition for my daughter, although we have done the outside hunts also. I remember when I started Jr. High, & my grandparents said we were too old for Easter egg hunts now – I was devastated! 😛
I do remember blowing the inside of the eggs out, but mostly we would hard boil them 1st & then color them. They are easier to work w/ (less risk of breaking one), & we can eventually eat them.
Brittany Dixon says
I remember still being super into holidays, egg hunts, etc when I hit middle school too. I was so sad that we were supposed to have outgrown it by then. I’m going to try and keep them up for as long as I possibly can 🙂
Julie says
As a married woman in my late 30s I talked up egg hunts so much that my in-laws did one for us “kids” outside a couple years ago. They enjoyed re-living the memories of when their kids were young, and we (two brothers and their wives) loved looking for the plastic eggs they hid. 🙂 I’d say you never get too old to have fun games to play!
Kat @ Where the Sidewalk Ends says
What a fun day! It also makes me giggle that you explain Kaitlyn’s bumps and bruises. With my two year old son, the entire blog post would be: “Don’t mind the egg on his head, he jumped from a rock wall. Don’t mind the bruised knees, he hit himself with a stick. Ignore cut on his hand, he was drawing with chalk on the sidewalk.” Toddlers are the most accident prone creatures I’ve ever seen!