Easter Weekend

Happy Easter!

The fun began Thursday when Alli had an Easter party at school.  (Sorry, no pics.)  Ruby insisted on wearing her fuzzy pink coat that she outgrew a year ago, which looked quite darling with the bunny ears hat.

On Friday it snowed, just in time for Easter.  Marissa and Alli made the best of it.  They built two adorable little snow bunnies on the patio... complete with accessories.  The weather was wet and cold all day, so we had a practice Easter egg hunt in the living room.  Ruby was thrilled to find a jelly bean in each egg.

 

The Easter Bunny came to our house Saturday morning.  Alli knows the secret of the Easter Bunny, but she is more than happy to play along.  Alli and Ruby searched for their baskets, ravenously sniffing out the candy.  I tried to do a low-candy Easter this year, so each basket had one chocolate bunny.  They were thrilled.  They got other stuff too... I just skimped on the candy.

We had a delicious breakfast of English muffins, strawberry freezer jam, sausage, eggs, and cereal.  Ruby wore her Easter hat with her favorite nightgown.

We had an Easter egg hunt at church.  The practice paid off, because Alli and Ruby filled their bags with found eggs.

They got tons of candy.  Tons.  All of my low-candy efforts failed instantly.

From the egg hunt, we went straight to a birthday party.  Alli got to color eggs at the party... and eat more candy and treats.  Andy helped with the egg-coloring.  They really got into it.  We brought home a dozen+ eggs.  Egg salad anyone?

We spent Saturday afternoon twitching from the sugar overload.  Just kidding.  But we did go over to the park for a while to burn off excess energy. 

We did the Easter Bunny stuff Saturday so that Sunday could be more of a holy day.

We went to church early.  Alli and Ruby wore cute matching dresses and hats.  Alli insisted on wearing her sparkly red shoes with he dress.  Ruby wore her favorite pink shoes (that she insisted on sleeping in last night). 

Alli and Ruby got these Easter treats at church.  They are little tombs made out of cupcakes, vanilla wafers, coconut, and frosting.  So festive!

Easter dinner was healthy and delicious, but not very traditional: homemade pitas with seasoned ground turkey, yogurt sauce, tomato-cucumber salad, crudités, fruit salad, and an apple crisp.  Simple and fresh.  It was perfect after a super-candy-sweet weekend.