three big cheers for easter

ah easter. once again, you didn't disappoint.

the unfortunate part was, there were NO good egg dye kits this year. can i get an amen?

BUT, the fortunate part was, i have a one-year-old who's obsessed with stickers and crayons. combine that with a couple bowls full of absurdly sugary candy and the creative juices just started flowing.

my fav: the giant egg face

my second fav: pat's egg face

quincy doesn't quite get the point of dying easter eggs yet, but she did figure out how to break them. it's a humbling moment as a parent when your child destroys the eggs you put a giant heart sticker on just for her. sigh

quincy also figured out that leaving her stickers lying around may equal a new goatee for milo

which, somehow over the course of the evening ended up on his little dog butt. 

(i know! you haven't seen a picture of milo for awhile, huh? it's called, "we have a kid now")

he got back at us for laughing at him though. when we were busy doing the bunny hop throughout the house (i'm not kidding), milo stuck up on the table and snatched one of my half-dyed eggs then buried it in the front yard! i still haven't found it... talk about an intense easter egg hunt. 

after we got tired of looking for the egg and crowned milo the best egg hider of anyone in the world, meghan and i made up a little play to help showcase our eggs. 

it's also a video to debut meghan's hands, since her newest ambition is to become america's next great hand model...

take that, bunny

after our rockin’ easter eggs last year, we were a little disappointed that the best egg kit we could find this year was star wars. luckily, we also found a build-a-bunny-house kit, so at least there would be some variety during dye time.

we prepared everything just so – perfectly filled glasses of colored water, a pile of stacked bunny-house lumber ready for construction… the one factor we forgot to consider: boys.

bill was over for the easter party and our new friend saxon came over with his art skills. saxon coincidently also came with us on friday night to a flashlight easter egg hunt. what we didn’t know was that everyone there was under the age of 7… okay fine, maybe we did know that…

meghan and i were diligently creating the cutest bunny house known to man (minus the freaky bunny with red eyes and a gun meghan pasted on the roof) while the boys were working away with the star wars stickers. then it started. c3po made his way over to the bunny house to visit. then he climbed on the roof and attacked. he was soon followed by the whole star wars cast in egg version. the horror was unbearable. meghan and i excused ourselves to make dinner (cry). we’d check in every so often to scenes like this:

hard-boiled mice climbing up the roof

c3po, r2d2 and yoda (red eyes added for effect) watching guard from the roof (notice the insane amounts of frosting used to glue things down. that would be the workings of my craftsman boyfriend. yoda’s not going anywhere)

darth vadar decapitating a bunny (it shames me to admit that this was actually my idea)

once again notice the gobs of frosting

and saxon eating a frosting filled hardboiled egg (it also shames me to admit that i dared him to eat it)

we took a break for dinner with some happy stuffed artichokes.

and what’s easter if it doesn’t end with a friendly (?) game of monopoly. it’s very worth noting that meghan kicked bill’s trash, even though monopoly is the “game that defines” him.

easter rocks

go to where they don't dye beets

on account of it's easter today, meghan and i felt it only appropriate to dye some eggs. lucky for us, our local grocer had the world's best egg dying kit ever! i was so satisfied with my product that i feel pitching a little promotion for paas eggheads is appropriate here. the gist is this - you dye the eggs and then give them little faces and hats (included in kit). hours of fun for the whole family, or just for two twenty-somethings.

here are our final products

and here is our little egg city, including business associates, jealous boyfriends and depressed inhabitants (what, it's a city - we wanted it to be life like)

and yes, that is a beatnik egg

these are the eggs attacking meghan...i told you it was hours of fun..

after our eggs got tired and told us they all had different plans tonight that didn't involve us, we realized we still had a ton of dye left. now, once upon a time, i used to think the phish song "heavy things" lyrics "go to where they hoped i'd be" actually said "go to where they don't dye beets." listen, it sounds like it. my dad and i would hear the dumb song every morning on our commute to work and it became very dear to us...maybe we'll dance to it at my wedding...

so naturally, meghan and i decided that we actual live in a place where we DO dye beets...and we did

turns out beets aren't too easy to dye. but at least our leftover egg faces looked good on them

happy easter!