Easter 2015

Things are starting to get busier around our place now that the weather is starting to warm up.  There's so much to do outside to prepare for the warm days of summer. There is no garden post this week as I spent my blog time on this Easter recap.

 

This year Easter was a lot more fun than previous years. The little man was all into searching for all the Easter eggs. He loved it to say the least and we enjoyed watching him searching for all his eggs!  He was so excited! Once he was done opening his Easter Gifts we all (including the dog)  enjoyed playing with his new toys. Friday's post was from Easter morning.
 

We enjoyed two delicious Easter meals.  The first was at Oma & Opa's place. Roxy is always in the kitchen looking for goodies when she's at Oma & Opa's

I was able to use my new toy for the salad we brought.  Oma had some gorgeous hydrangeas that Aunt R gave to her.  They were such a pretty colour.

 

Aunt R surprised the Lil Man with an Easter Kinder egg. 

 

They are  gigantic - the little egg in the picture above is a regular sized Kinder egg.  In case you are not aware,  Kinder eggs are now gender specific ... I believe they have been for awhile now. I remember grabbing a 3 pack of Boy Kinder eggs last Easter for the Lil Man.  You have to look closely at the packaging on these Easter eggs to notice which gender they are for. Aunt R was not aware of this and accidentally grabbed the Lil Man a girl Kinder lol.  It has not stopped the Lil Man from enjoying and playing with his new toy though.  It was actually very fitting because he loves watching the birds and looking for them in the sky.
 

Our other Easter meal was at Avó & Avô's place. If the weather is decent out, they usually make something on the BBQ and it is so enjoyable after a long winter of  little to no BBQ meals! I made some macaroon Easter nests and some brownies.

 

Overall we had a very nice Easter long weekend. We did not have to travel far and we were surrounded by our family.

Hope you had a lovely Easter as well!

 

Easter 2013

We had a beautiful Easter weekend! The weather was gorgeous - high of 9^oC which is warm
considering it was the end of March and  it was nice and sunny most of the weekend. It was lovely spring weather. On Monday, however, Winter decided to return. The temperature dropped to -9^oC and there was periods of blowing snow causing whiteouts. I think it's time for winter to go away.

This year parts of the Easter weekend was spent outside enjoying the beautiful temperatures and taking in the sunshine.

Hugo had his first taste of Grandma's Folar (which is a Portuguese Easter tradition - Sweet Bread served with a boiled egg - it symbolically represents rebirth and the Resurrection). He just loved investigating it. Roxy tried to investigate too but Hugo would not let her near his folar when we were at my parents place.

 



 

[Close-up photo of Hugo's Folar - with Roxy standing in the corner]

 

 

This year Hugo had his first Easter Egg Hunt and he enjoyed all his treats and gifts the Easter Bunny brought him. He has really figured out how to unwrap gifts. 



 

On Easter Sunday we met little Pippa for the first time and she is so tiny and cute! She was so curious to see what Hugo was doing. It was her first time around a little human and she was great! 

 

Hugo also had his first taste of Oliebollen that his Godfather made. (Oliebollen is a deep-fried Dutch Doughnut traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve. In our town, they actually serve oliebollen outside the Dutch chocolate store  on the Main street on December 31). Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of him trying it.

 

We enjoyed some delicious lemon and chocolate cake Byron's cousin baked. She always makes great deserts. Hugo had some of the chocolate cake which had mint frosting and he enjoyed it immensely as you can see ... 

 

  

Before we left Hugo received some advice from his Godfather ...

 

 

 

Hugo also received a Dutch book that Aunt R brought back from the Netherlands.

Once again I used some of the free Project Life templates from Sherelle Christensen. They can be found on her Blog - My Crazy Life As A Farmers Wife. I am so happy she shared these with her readers. The templates are great if you know the basics of Photoshop. The above template can be found HERE. Thanks again Sherelle for sharing these!


We had a great Easter weekend filled with lots of treats, delicious food, family time and traditions. How was your Easter? Do you have any special Easter traditions?

Happy Easter!

 

 



Quick Easter Treat

Last year for Easter I made Rice Krispie Easter Eggs with a surprise mini chocolate egg inside and little bird nests. They are a bit time consuming making since they need to be shaped into an oval, but they turn out cute.

You make them like you do regular rice krispie squares and then you just shape them to look like eggs or a nest and put the little surprise treat inside. You can also add food colouring to make the eggs different colours.

They were a hit. Whenever people bit into the eggs they seemed to enjoy their little surprise. Here is a photo of the inside surprise (this is a photo I found online since I didn't get a chance to take one)

When I was looking for the above picture I found some of Hugo's 1st Easter (aka our little Easter Bunny from 2012).

 

What a difference a year makes.