Monday, April 9, 2012

You Capture: Easter

Easter is such a lovely time of year! The grass is greening up, the leaves are budding on the trees, and flowers are blooming. All of nature is gloriously coming back to life.


We have the most lovely trees in our neighborhood! The streets are lined with pink and white blossoms, which are so gorgeous! Plus they make it smell so lovely outside.



I had so much fun with my kids for Easter this year! First we made some yummy bird's nest cookies out of chinese noodles and melted chocolate.


I did not anticipate just how many bird's nest cookies we would end up with! Since we had so many,  we got to take some to our friends.

Then of course we dyed our Easter eggs. This year I got smart, and we used a large muffin tin to put the dye in AND we colored our eggs outside! It was a gorgeous day, and I had to wonder why didn't I ever think of this before?! No drippy dye in my kitchen and no colored countertops! Hooray!



The boys LOVED dying their easter eggs. They kept asking me for more! I think our eggs turned out rather well.


I especially like the Easter eggs that I dyed with silk ties.


This I wanted to try something new with a few of our Easter eggs. We used old silk ties to dye the eggs. You wrap the eggs up in the ties and then boil them (instructions here). The dye from the silk transfers to the eggs. It was so fun to unwrap the eggs and see how awesome they turned out!

Then on Easter morning the kids discovered their Easter baskets. It was so much fun to see them exclaim about all their little prizes and goodies! It was also amazing to me this year how much faster my little boys are getting at finding the eggs the Easter bunny hides.

One of my favorite parts of the day was watching Miss Aubrey take everything in. She did not understand what was going on, but she loved it all! She especially enjoyed playing with the plastic eggs after the boys emptied all the candy out of them.


She enjoyed those eggs for hours! It was so stinkin' adorable.

The best part of Easter for me was enjoying time with my family. I love these sweet kids and I am so blessed to have them in my life. They bring me so much joy!


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14 comments:

  1. what fun memories for them! and that is a super idea on the muffin pan! love all those blooms too!

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  2. Love the flowers, kids, eggs, cookies, EVERYTHING! Ok - I'm mad at myself I never thought of dying the eggs outside - great idea. I heard of the silk tie thing on another blog, but have never done it...it looks cool!

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  3. What a great Easter- love your eggs & the chocolate nest.

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  4. Lovely!!! Hope you had a great Easter!

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  5. THose silk-dyed eggs are too beautiful to crack and peel! Great idea to do the eggs outside. I'm in love the photo at the top - it's beautiful!

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  6. I'll definitely be borrowing your idea to do the eggs outside next year! And I love the silk tie/transfer eggs--too cool!

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  7. Beautiful pictures. I really want to try to silk tie project next year as well.

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  8. Oh my goodness - those next cookies look amazing! I will definitely need to try those out next year! :D

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  9. Dying them outside...what a fantastic idea! Beautiful shots! :)

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  10. Wow! Your rocked out this challenge! The blooming tree photos are perfection and then your Easter story in pictures was creative and entertaining and informative. I love those tie eggs!

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  11. Looks like you had a fun Easter! I love the flower shots and those silk dyed eggs look awesome!

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  12. Love the ones dyed with ties. What a great idea!

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  14. Aubrey is getting so big, I can't believe it! And my niece did the silk tie egg dying too and hers were so great, just like yours. We'll have to try that next year. Happy Easter to you all! :)

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