Easter 2017: How We Celebrated

With a couple days off of school we had a really nice and long Easter weekend.
Take a look at how we celebrated:

Colored Eggs

After hard boiling a couple dozen eggs, the kids had a fun time decorating them.  Baby Girl elected to keep hers a soft, plain pastel wile the Little Man went with bold color, markers and stickers.  The kids also painted some permanent foam eggs that we can keep, but I didn't get a photo of those.

You can click here to see some examples of these foam eggs that I have decorated myself.

Glowy Eggs

One of our favorite activities is to have a glow-in-the-dark egg hunt.  Or to be more accurate I should say; a rip-open-the-eggs-as-fast-as-you-can-and-take-out-the-glow-sticks-hunt! 😀

You can click here to read more about this fun tradition.

Egg Hunt

I like to make up the kids eggs ahead of time and assign them each a specific color or theme.  Then I can make sure that they each get the same number of eggs with the same exact fillings.  No squabbles here 😉

Easter morning this year was cold and rainy, so we had their egg hunt in the living room.

Brunch

Left:  Strawberry, orange, banana smoothies decorated with bunny peeps.
Right:  Cinnamon rolls, cheesy egg and hash brown casserole and bacon.

The egg casserole is really simple; just layer hash browns, beaten eggs, green pepper and cheese in a greased baking dish.  Season to taste with garlic, onion powder, salt and pepper and bake at 350.  Your time will vary depending on how large (or deep) your casserole is.  I set my timer for 30 minutes and then go from there, adding time as needed.

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In addition to the 'Eastery' activities listed here, there was also quite a bit of turkey hunting (Husby), neighborhood walks, bubble blowing and playing outside.  It was a great weekend!

I hope you enjoyed reading about how we celebrated, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

© Jennifer Adams Flowers 2017