Hoppy Easter
This past weekend, the weather here was absolutely beautiful. The sun was shining, the temperature was warm, and the sky was bright blue. I don’t remember the last time Easter weekend wasn’t a big ol’ rainy mess. We spent plenty of time outdoors enjoying the weather and when we weren’t outside, we were in the kitchen working on these bad boys.
Yes, we chose to color brown eggs this year instead of the traditional white. I had heard somewhere that brown eggs tend to dye deeper shades and wanted to see what the outcome would be. Pinky thought it was a great idea, so we started by boiling these peeps and luckily only had a few casualties.
Then, after things had a bit of time to cool off, we whipped out our prepackaged coloring kits and the little miss got to work.
Note the tom-boyish appearance of our normally very girly daughter. Chris and Pinky had some sort of crazy thing going on with hats this weekend. I don’t know why they thought it was necessary to wear them in the 70 degree temps that we were having, but I decided that it was a battle I didn’t want to fight and let them have their fun. Head sweat is fun, right?
The colors took a bit of time to turn from the neutral brown into vibrant shades of pink, blue, green, orange and yellow, but it was totally worth the wait.
You can see that some of the eggs were cracked and scratched a bit from the process, but we like to believe that it just gave them more character. I really wish you could have witnessed the colors in person, because the pictures really don’t do them justice. They were just beautiful. Even the two eggs we intentionally colored to be the ugly eggs (a tradition I’ve passed on to Pinky) turned out to look pretty good.
When we were finished, we packed them all up and placed them in the refrigerator to chill overnight. Pinky made sure to write a note with directions on where to find the eggs and left it for the Easter Bunny. Then, she reluctantly brushed her teeth and went to bed.
In the morning, she woke up to find that her floppy eared friend had left her a note in return which stated “FOLLOW THE TRAIL.” She found the just a few feet away, a trail of bagged candies with pretty little ribbons was leading her out the side door. Along the trail, the Easter Bunny had hidden her eggs as well. She looked up, down, high and low to find every last egg and she scooped up the candy along the way too.
At the end of the trail, which led right up to our front door, she found this basket of goodies to go along with the over abundance of other yummy treats she had collected. FYI – if you were thinking about sending us some candy, you can go ahead and keep it for now. Our candy tank is full.
If you can’t tell from the photo, there are various art supplies, a stuffed rabbit catch and toss game, and sunglasses. Part of the basket was also a hat, which Pinky proudly modeled for us.
Overall, it was a great weekend. We all enjoyed our Easter and topped off the day with a great ham dinner. Yum!
