Easter 2010

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful and Blessed Easter! We had a wonderful time with family and lots of good food. I decided to set up my dining room as the "dessert room" and we all ate lunch in the sunroom, since it was big enough to fit all 12 of us comfortably.

Here is my dining room table. Please excuse the wrinkles. My iron must still be packed because I looked for it AND my garment steamer forever with no luck. Anyhow, we had cupcakes, chocolate candies and petit fours that my mother-in-law Jackie made, "pink stuff" that my mother made, a fruit tray my sister brought and cream cheese sugar cookies and a homemade carrot cake that I made. Oh, we were loaded down on the sweets!

My nephew Matthew LOVED this room!

I made these Jelly Bean Topiaries for table decorations. I saw the tutorial on Crafty Sisters, you have to check them out...they have wonderful ideas!

You can kind of see my new table runner - it is so precious. Pale pink with polka dots and little bunnies at each end. Darren bought it for me, when we were at Home Goods a couple of weeks ago for $9.99

My mother-in-law made these cute bunnies from a 3D Wilton Candy mold. It's hard to tell but they attach to little Easter baskets that you can fill with an egg, or candy (like we did). We surrounded them with Easter grass and thought they were a perfect addition to the table!

On the buffet, I used my tiered server to display ceramic Easter eggs and more grass! I used two of my glasses to put out some colorful spring m&Ms and then we had some strawberry lemonade. Don't you just love my little buffet runner? I found that at Marshall's for $7.99

This is one of the bookcases in the living room. I put a little Easter scene out and then put some eggs and carrots on the shelves. These decorations were my mom's that she passed down to me. She painted those eggs and carrots many years ago!

This is probably one of my favorite decorations! I just love this little bunny. Another one that my mom gave to me. I just finished him off with Easter grass and a few of those ceramic eggs.

Friday, when I was out running errands, I stopped by Williams Sonoma and picked up some cute spring colored towels since I couldn't find the Easter ones that I had bought at Ross.

While I was there, I splurged on this cute little spatula! I paid too much for it, but I thought it was cute!

We ate a great lunch of pork roast with carrots, celery and onions, honey ham and hickory smoked ham, okra & tomatoes, black eyed peas, mashed potatoes, white rolls, buttermilk cornbread, deviled eggs, pea salad, and a garden salad. Oh, everything was so delicious but now I have so many leftovers in my fridge!!!

After everyone finished lunch, we headed outside so that Matthew could hunt for Easter eggs!

Of course, he had so much fun!

The loot! He is a professional egg hunter now. He has hunted eggs at school, church, Aunt Morgan's house, at his great-grandma's house and then at home on Sunday. This year, he got 5 Easter baskets! I guess it's nice to be the only grandchild sometimes! :)

Coco also got an Easter basket. Hers was filled with a frog toy, a giant flower toy, a cute little shirt, a cute spring jacket and a couple of Greenies. Here she is in her Easter dress. A couple of weeks ago, Darren dropped her off to be groomed about 10 one morning and I didn't get to go pick her up until about 5:30. She was shaking and ready to go home but they said that she was wonderful and well behaved, so I splurged and bought her this cute dress! She LOVED it!

Coco and Matt together! They LOVE playing together and completely wear each other out. They both sleep REALLY well after a day together. And my Easter wreath! Ok, this is after the door had been opened and closed about 100 times. I forgot to take a before picture. As you can tell - there are a few places that didn't get enough hot glue! I will have to go back and fix that before I put it up. I saw similar wreaths that I just loved for about $50 and I couldn't bring myself to spend that much. I wanted a cute wreath for about $10, and guess what...I did it! I got enough materials for 2 wreaths but only had time to make one. Nonetheless, I spent about $21 so each wreath cost me a mere $10.50! Isn't that wonderful? I'm not that great at tutorials so I will let you go on over to Crafty Sisters and read about how to make it over there. I told you they had great ideas!

We had a wonderful Easter celebration and I am already getting ideas of some new things I want to make for next year! I hope you all had a wonderful one and were able to spend it with family and friends!

Fat Kid at Heart!

Last week, Darren had planned for us to go to Center for the weekend to visit his family. As I normally do, I got home on Friday and got right to work getting things ready to go out of town. I put the dishes up, cleaned the kitchen, did some last minute laundry and put it up, picked up the house, made the bed and packed. I was completey done with our bags and pillows, waiting by the door (we were taking Darren's truck), by about 8:30. I sat down to chill out and I thought, "I could go ahead and get in my pjs and ride comfortably". Then I thought "I could go ahead and take my shower and get in my pjs, so I could ride comfy and be ready for bed when we get there". This whole time, Coco keeps turning her head and looking at me like, "what are we going to do now, Mom". She likes to "help"! So, I decided to go upstairs and take a shower and get changed. And Coco went too. She sat in the doorway as I showered and got dressed. I must have been boring her because when I started brushing my hair and teeth, she bailed on me, and she headed downstairs. We don't leave her "unattended" for very long because she is so nosey it hurts (and I honestly don't know where she gets that from). So, I hurried and headed downstairs. As soon as I get to the bottom of the stairs, I hear a "crinkling" noise. I assume she is just playing with one of her toys, that closely resembles a real baby toy that makes that crinkling paper sound. Then, I notice it. The toy that makes that noise! What I don't see, is Coco! So, I come around the corner and see her, trying, unsuccessfully, to hurry and get underneath the coffee table. As usual, my "Coco, what do you have?" stops her dead in her tracks. Seriously. She must have been thinking "If I don't move, she won't see me", because she froze and didn't move a muscle. Until I started over towards her. And then, she ran to "home base". The blanket I have for her in the living room floor. She runs there everytime she thinks she is in trouble. Apparently, you can't get in trouble when you're on that blanket! I find her newest "treasure", and realize that its a large plastic Easter egg, that she managed to get open! She has completely crushed one side of it, until it opened and miraciously produced M&Ms! I run to get my camera to take a picture and here she comes! She gets back to those M&Ms and is working away, until I come back around the corner and off to that blanket she goes! She apparently held down that bag, and pulled as hard as she could (much like she did with Piggy), and got it open, and managed to get some M&Ms out. When I got my pictures and got everything thrown away, much to her disappointment, I went to Darren's desk to check out his Easter basket. His Easter basket is sitting beside his desk and every single plastic Easter egg that WAS in his basket, is now on the floor! She managed to get every single one of them out! The thing that I was thoroughly impressed with... She had "attacked" the only Easter egg with something in it! I checked every egg, and she managed to pick up the only one with a "surprise". Darren thinks she got lucky. I think she is a genius. Either way, we both think - she is a Fat Kid at Heart!!

You see what she did to that egg, to get to the candy! True fat kid!

She wound up getting that package torn open, and getting some M&Ms out!

This is when I went to get my camera. She went back to see if she could "sneak" anymore, before I took them away!