Happy Easter!

Hard to believe it's already that time of year again, but....  We had a very tradition-packed, mostly-relaxing Easter weekend at home this year with Uncle Jim, Aunt Jenn, Jack and Sam.  We began on Good Friday with our annual egg dying and made these brownie egg nests.  I'm very seriously considering making these all year round because they maximized the edge of the brownies, which everyone knows is the very BEST part!!  chewy and oh so yummy.

On Saturday morning, we brought our Easter basket to church for blessing.  

Packed full of all our traditional breakfast items for Easter morning.

And on Saturday evening, we once again held our annual flashlight Easter egg hunt in the backyard.

As usual, all the kids just had a blast searching for eggs in the dark.

Amazingly, we were all awake and ready in time to make 8:30 mass on Sunday morning! Talk about Easter miracles.

Simone had little interest in being pals with mommy this Easter.  She and Jack were best buddies all weekend --totally inseparable.

As Uncle Jim would say, we feasted like Romans all weekend, but Easter dinner was the highlight.  Mommy made homemade french onion soup, Uncle Jim smoked a leg of lamb and a prime rib, and the piece de resistance -- a huge homemade carrot cake (with NO WALNUTS!!woo who!)

Easter down, and just a few weeks now until Simone celebrates her First Holy Communion.  We'll be sure to post lots of pictures from that special day!