Happy Easter 2011

We had a wonderful Easter with our family and friends.  I love this time of year, everything is fresh, new and a perfect reminder to celebrate life.

We started off the Easter season with a fun Easter egg hunt party with our friends.

Through out the month we also took the kids to a few community sponsored Easter events.  There were lots of games and activities to enjoy.

I wanted to introduce a beloved tradition from my childhood, Enchanted Eggs.  I fondly remember getting these delicate and enchanting sugar eggs as a child and I wanted to share this tradition with my kids.  I started to make them, but just fell short of time and creativity to get them done.  They are a lot of work!  Come to find out my memory isn’t quite what I recall…my mom said she only made them 2-3 times and just recycled them year after year because they were so much work.  I wish I had pictures of the eggs my mom made, I know they were incredible!  Next year I have Grandma all lined up to make them (pretty, pretty please with sugar on top!!)

I made the kids Easter outfits and they looked so sweet on Easter morning.  Everyone thought they looked precious and no one had a clue I had just finished them 30 minutes before church started, we’ll I guess now they do.

Later that afternoon we enjoyed Easter dinner and another egg hunt at my parents.  The kids had so much fun hunting for eggs (and bonus most of them were filled with cold hard cash!).  Their favorite part was a fun tradition we used to do when we lived in South Texas, Cascarones Eggs.  Cascarones are confetti filled eggs you crack on the heads of unsuspecting bystanders.

It was certainly a fun filled Easter season with lots of activities, parties, egg hunts, friends and family.  We are so grateful for the many blessings in our lives.