Hippity Hoppity...

... Easter's come and gone.

It was a quiet Easter at home with just the four, I mean five, of us. (You count too, Rudy.) With all the travel coming up we didn't really feel like traveling this weekend too.  So we stayed home and had a low-key, family weekend.

On Friday Kaelyn and I dyed Easter eggs.  I had grand plans of making some natural dyes or doing some actual painting on the eggs this year, but when it came down to it I had two dye kits leftover from last year in the pantry and none of the supplies to do any of the other stuff. So, I phoned it in and did the quintessential dye kits.  Brings back memories from Easter's growing up.  Except neither of our kits had the clear crayon to draw on the eggs with. She did get to paint sparkles on some of the eggs though.

We had trouble finding a leg of lamb for our Easter dinner. We checked what we consider to be the "nicest" grocery store in the area. Not even a lamb chop. So I called another market that has a pretty good meat department and butcher. No lamb. Finally, after searching online, I found an actual lamb farm about 20 miles from here. No bone-in legs left but they did have some with the bone removed.  Matt drove out to pick it up. He'll have to tell you about that experience but I guess it was a little strange because there's no store front or anything, he just had to go into their house to get it.  And get it he did.  This was one large piece of meat. It's two days later and I think we still have about fifty pounds left in our fridge (or five, whatever, it's still a lot). Lamb sandwiches and egg salad all week long for us.

Saturday was pretty quiet but fun.  We did some yard work and the kids helped me get the garden started.  More on the garden in another post.

Sunday consisted of Easter baskets and finding eggs.  Kaelyn was quite funny. Every time she found an egg she'd exclaim in her goofy voice, "What's that doin' dere!?" Bren was still trying to wake up during the hunting and wasn't really sure what was going on. Until he saw the chocolate.  He was so sure about the chocolate I had to pull two pieces out of his mouth with the wrappers still on.  It appears he has gotten his mother's sweet tooth as well.  We went to a nice Easter mass and then just hung out at home and cooked the lamb. And Kaelyn ate a lot of jelly beans.

By the way, how on earth am I going to be ready for the beach in a month with all these jelly beans and chocolate eggs in the house.  What was the Easter Bunny thinking?

Hope you all had a lovely Easter too!