Easter 2012

The children were a just a little eager for Easter. They adore holidays and proceeded to let us know by waking up at the crack of dawn in order to go find their Easter baskets. J absolutely refused to be roused from sleep, so I trudged down in my pajamas to watch.

While they gorged on chocolate bunnies and played with their stuffed Angry Birds, I made Resurrection Rolls {image and recipe via Eat at Allies, though I used homemade dough}.

The idea is to seal a marshmallow {Christ} in a roll {the tomb} then wait for it to bake {symbolizing three days}. When you cut open the roll, it reveals that the marshmallow is no longer there {having melted into the bread} and is a wonderful way to explain to kids that the tomb is empty because Christ has risen. Plus, they're pretty delicious. ;)




Building on my last post about Emma Pillsbury, I decided to go with bold colors for my Easter outfit. I bought a HUGE old-lady skirt from Goodwill and proceeded to unpick all the seams and take it in. Voila! A perfectly orangey-pink skirt for just $2.50. {Other outfit deets: striped shirt,  J Crew / necklace, Target / belt, Anthropologie / skirt, thrifted / shoes, Ross}




After church, we headed to J's brother's house for dinner, conversation, and plenty of playing with the cousins. It was a pretty terrific Easter Sunday, and I hardly noticed the 90 degree weather. :)

How was yours?

PS Sorry for the unscheduled and unusually long blogging break. I appreciate the emails of concern and apologize for not replying to any of them. :(  I'll write more about it in the coming week, but I'm hoping to be back to regular posting now. XO