Anders’ Easter basket! Instead of jelly beans and chocolate, he got raisins and Ella’s bars.
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All I need in my Easter basket.
Anders’ foot on the table here kills me.
blueberry muffin, orange cranberry scones, and a hot cross bun!
(somehow, my first hot cross bun ever. i liked it.)
bacon, fruit salad!
and scrambled eggs to round the whole thing out
Easter egg hunt!
Easter in top ten form:
1. the food!!!! wait. this needs to be more than one. let’s start with… breakfast! baked goods and eggs and fruit and coffee and mimosas!
2. being just about on time for church and singing one of the best hymns ever: Christ the Lord is Risen Today
3. everyone watching Money Pit while I cooked (I actually love cooking if I am left alone with a glass of wine and some good music.); also, I used to watch Money Pit all the time growing up, so it was fun to show the kids. (Bathtub scene never gets old.)
4. Easter egg hunt. Parker was so excited, genuinely confused (and delighted) to find Easter eggs hiding all over his yard. I put no more than three (stingy with candy!) jellybeans in each egg. Anders found some too which was, as you can see, adorable.
5. dinner. dinner was so, so, so good. i made this pot roast, this mac and cheese, and a spinach salad. such comfort food. make it. you will not regret it.
6. getting a family picture!! i asked everyone to get outside so i could just get a pic of all the kids but then steve went to get the tripod and I’m so glad he did. we don’t get nearly enough opportunities for a family picture.
7. playing balderdash. lindsey comes up with the most ridiculous ones, jordan and nathaniel take it seriously (and get competitive), steve varies between silly, and competitive, and definitions are not william’s strong suit (so, that ends up being pretty funny.), and i end up being the reader of the definitions. you can imagine there’s a lot of laughing.
8. parker and anders in bow ties. i could’ve eaten them for dinner.
9. the Easter baskets. i got the goodies way far in advance this year so i wasn’t scrambling at the last minute and i think i did a pretty good job.
10. being together. cheesy but true.
also, how throwback is this courier new with different colors?!
ha! I love the pastel font. and the family photo!!
That little bow tie! so sweet!
Money Pit cracks me up every time. My favorite scene is the progressive sparking across the entire kitchen wall.
YES.
Family pictures are the best whenever you can get them. I love the yellow bow tie. Christ the Lord is Risen Today is one of the best hymns.
Here, here for being stingy with the candy.. I think I put 1 or 2 in each egg! Because I can't even with sugar crashes!!!
amen!!! (i'm slowly throwing it away bit by bit too!)
OK where did you get the orange cranberry scones… ive been searching forever!
OK where did you get the orange cranberry scones… ive been searching forever!
a local bakery!
Christ the Lord is Risen Today is THEEE best hymn. My two year old danced to it the whole way through. Though most Easter music is my jam. 🙂