Pre-Egg Hunt

Captain A was over yesterday and we had an impromptu Easter egg hunt. He discovered all the eggs and baskets that I use for Easter decor; it was a fun game for him to find my plastic eggs and empty them from the containers as fast as he could. He also loved the baskets; thankfully he didn't empty the grass but would take the baskets and run away from grandma, laughing the whole time.  We had plastic eggs everywhere....it looked like EB had an accident all over my house. He was most interested in pulling the plastic eggs apart then pushing them around the floor, like a car.

Over all it was a fun time and the real egg hunt should be interesting......now what to fill the eggs with for a 15 mo. old?

MCC

Hoppy Easter Everybunny!

mmm, Reeses Eggs!

Carrot Cake and Orange Cupcakes with carrots on top.

Captain in his Chocolate Bunny Ears


so cute I had to show him twice.

We had a great Easter! I love when General Conference is on Easter Sunday! We listened to wonderful messages from our Prophet and spent time with family and friends.

We had a delicious brunch of Belgian Waffles, fruit, bacon & sausage . Hayden was up early with me so he helped out by mixing up the Belgian Waffle batter...it is a process, but the taste is so worth it. To make the batter you need at least 1 1/2 hours. The batter needs to set for an hour and be stirred every 15 minutes.......mmmm just thinking about the buttery, sweet goodness makes my mouth water. We couldn't decide if we liked the fruit and cream waffles or the plain with maple syrup best.....

New Egg hunt , but we still did baskets. This year I thought I would do healthy baskets. The only problem was that I decide to do this after I had purchased a bunch of not so healthy treats for them....so the baskets contained healthy and not so healthy goodies. One of the cutest things in the baskets were the chocolate bunnies, lambs and ducks from Harry & David's......they were eaten before I thought to take a picture.

We had a light salad and sandwich supper at moms with the family, George Sharkey and his bishop Umberto Gilardi who are here from Scotland.
Over all it was a great day!

(No letter yet so I am a bit fretful, but it will come sometime this week).

MCC

Monday Mumblings

I am so glad that Easter is over....just because of the candy! I must look like a Reese's Egg, I've eaten so many of them...and we bought less candy than in years past.
This year we didn't do the hard boiled decorated egg thing ....maybe I need the real eggs to counter act the PB eggs?
So now I will have to wait until Halloween to participate in the candy gorge. Megan, Lauri and I have decided that we are going to go no/limited processed sugar.......please get me something salty.

For Easter I wanted to make a carrot cake...I know cute, bunnies and carrots....However, I don't make carrot cake. So I looked for a recipe that looked good and made it. The Frosting was to die for....very sweet and creamy...don't you just love the day glow carrots? The Cake was okay, not great. If it hadn't been for the frosting it would have been a waste. My sister-in-law loved the frosting on the strawberries I had sitting out. I am now in the market for a moist delicious carrot cake recipe.

Spring Break...we didn't do much. Hayden got to sleep in until 10:00 am everyday, LUCKY! My body won't let me sleep past 8:00 am, and that is only if I go to bed late.....long gone are the days of all nighters or even very late nighters....and I don't think I'm that old. Back to Hayden....he got his driving permit! Watch out. I had the opportunity of taking him out driving for his first time, for real. What an adventure. I had forgotten what a new driver is like....too much gas, slamming on the breaks and sharp turns....my life passed before my eyes. He got better with time. I keep telling myself that the benefit is that when he can drive legally I will no longer have to be around to shuttle him from location to location....my little boy is growing up.

Back to real life and my schedule. Ah, just a few more weeks until summer.....I know what happened to Spring?
I have decided to forget spring, after all it seems to have forgotten us.
MCC