"TIE" dying eggs

I am going to post a link that has the funnest idea of coloring Easter eggs! Wait till you see this!

http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=955500e62abd0110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&autonomy_kw=silk+tie+egg

(YOU may have to "copy & paste" the address into your URL due to a new browser I'm using and it won't post the link the correct way )

That looks like the epitome of fun to me!!

If you try this activity, let me know how it turned out.

I would love to give it a go myself and if I do, I will post pictures!

Dying Easter Eggs and other activities

I love dying Easter eggs! I'm 40 years old and I still enjoy doing that little activity. I did a search and here are a few ideas for your Easter egg dying this year.

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/dye.htm Be sure to check out the different dye ideas.

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/crafts.html Easter Crafts

http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/specialfeature/easter_crafts_ms/ crafts

http://www.daniellesplace.com/HTML/easter.html Christian crafts

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/easter-religious/ religious

http://blackdog.net/holiday/easter/index.html all sorts of stuff

Hope this helps you with ideas for your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews, Sunday School kids, or children's church kids. Maybe you can use these ideas and come up with your own!!

Have fun with the young person in your life!!

Tweaking my menu for Easter Lunch

I think I need to tweak my Easter lunch menu.

I'm changing my mind on what sounds good to me. hahaha

Here's the tweak.

ham/fried chicken

mashed potatoes or potato salad

deviled eggs

La Suer Peas

either french bread toasted or rolls

Easy Lemon Cake

Paula Deen's Eclair dessert

Bunny Cake

How does that sound?

I enjoy cooking for my family so very much!

I'm looking forward to a beautiful Easter Sunday!!

A yummy dessert

Instead of chocolate pie for my Easter desserts...I'm adding this one -

http://recipes.pauladeen.com/index.php/recipes/view/eclair_cake/

Instead of the homemade icing though, I use one already made in a tub!
This is awesome!

What is your special Easter meal? Or do you have one?

From one Easter to the next, I never know what I'm going to have as our special meal.

I do know it will have Easter eggs included!!

Easter isn't like Thanksgiving or Christmas. We always have turkey, ham, dressing and all the fixings! That's a "no brainer" for sure.

I think this Easter we will have ham. Everybody in our house loves ham.

Even my 2 year old will eat ham.

We will have deviled eggs too. There will be plenty of boiled eggs to use.

Ok, our menu is shaping up to look like this:

ham

mashed potatoes

deviled eggs

broccoli and cheese casserole

lima beans (my favorite)

Easter Bunny Cake

chocolate pie

cobbler with vanilla ice cream

Whatever your meal, make it special. Your husband and kids deserve something special!

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Bunny Cake

Bunny Cake

Have you ever made a bunny cake for Easter? I have and it's so much fun and so easy to do!
I first learned how to make this cake from my sister, Beth. She has since passed away, so I make it every Easter and think of the fun times we'd had together!

Here's a link on how to make this cute cake!
http://www.countrymom.com/sweets/bunny-cake.html

Now, my bunch doesn't care for coconut at all! So I usually omit that.

I use candy straws for the whiskers too. Then we outline our bunny cake with different colored jelly beans or gum drops.

A Few Easter Coloring Pages

I thought I would add a few Easter coloring pages.
I will try to add more as I find them.
Also, if I come across a couple of Saint Patrick's Day coloring pages/ideas, I will add those as well!!

http://www.free-coloring-pages.com/easter.html

http://printables.kaboose.com/holidays/easter/coloring-pages/easter-color.html (this link also include St. Patrick Day coloring sheets, puzzle sheets, and ideas to use)

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/measterposter.htm - you can either print them in color or black and white to color.

http://coloringpages.nick-magic.com/easter.html This website, scroll down - there is a darling little bunny rabbit you can print out on stock paper, cut it out, and put together using brads. This is too cute. I bet you could use construction paper instead of cardstock.

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/christian-easter/ These are religious coloring sheets. Nice.

http://www.fun-with-pictures.com/easter-coloring-pages.html

http://holidays.kaboose.com/easter-printables.html

http://familyfun.go.com/printables/coloring-pages/specialfeature/holiday-coloring-pages/#

http://christiananswers.net/kids/clr-indx.html This is a fantastic site. To find the story of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection - scroll down. There are also lesson plans that go with this site. Awesome place.

http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/color/cpeaster.shtml

I hope to add more color page links later on! Hope this will help get you started!!

It's Springtime in Louisiana!

This is Nathan helping color/dye Easter eggs! He was having so much fun!!!

Nathan would color his egg with a crayon before dying.

Mom and Nathan playing with the Easter eggs

Nathan in his Easter "Go Go Go" outfit

Nathan at the park

Nathan and Daddy at the town's egg hunt in DeRidder, LA.

All those pictures were taken in 2008!!

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