Easter and Family

Well, another Easter has come and gone.  And it's always good to be with family to celebrate.  This year, I celebrated with Barbara, Tom, Monica, Brittany, Ray, Siobhan, and Carl...and it was quite a celebration!  Then Deidre and D.J. called and that completed calls from Barbara's family.

So...here I am...making paper mache eggs (Thanks to Rachel's blog!)  I wasn't too keen on dyeing eggs this year...after all, I've done it many, many times.  This was different...just some starch, tissue paper, and a blown up water balloon...

I knew we were having company for Easter...Barbara was getting the centerpieces ready for brunch and for dinner...

And...thanks to one of Leah's posts, we tried making Cake Pops...here are the first attempts at Chickie Pops!

On Easter morning, Tom and Biggie woke me up...(and I'd really rather wake up by myself!)

But...here I am ...with Tom...and we're both still smiling!

Here we are...enjoying brunch.  We had fresh fruit salad, orange juice with strawberries, Lee Lee Egg Strata, sausage, Deviled Eggs, French Breakfast Puffs, Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake, and Fresh Rhubarb Sugared Muffins, followed by coffee...

 Right after breakfast, we all opened our Paper Mache Eggs...here I am sorting chocolate eggs, Jelly Bellies, and little fuzzy chicks!

Carl wanted to have another Easter Egg Hunt...so we dyed more eggs... Tom and Brittany hid them, and Carl found all of them...even the hardest to find!

Carl made his dad a birthday cake so we celebrated with a birthday cake as well as flower-shaped ice cream and Chickie Pops!

Of course, kids will be kids...so here's Brittany playing in the dollhouse (with Carl's permission, of course!)

These two cousins are "Best Buds"!

 And so are these two...Great Grandpa and Great-Granddaughter~

And so ends another Easter!