Easter finery & traditions

In preparation for Easter (and our R.S. Birthday dinner last week) we've been growing wheat grass. Unfortunately it wasn't quite mature for the centerpieces, but now it looks lovely and very springy in our kitchen.


Here are some pics of the process from Day 0, Day 5, and Day 8. It's a fun project to do with the kids since it grows so quickly. Bonus: I finally found a use for all those baby food jars I've been keeping for some reason.











Easter morning started with decorating eggs. I was going to give this up this year, since the kids don't even want to pick up the real ones anymore, until I started thinking of all the delicious things we could but rarely make out of hard-boiled eggs - Christine's deviled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, creamed eggs over toast... So we went all out.

**Note to self: Next year remember to take family pictures in our Easter finery before church as the finery tends to be shed the second we walk in the door. So no pics this year. But trust me, we looked nice. In keeping with Mom's tradition (that I hated when I was younger but appreciate now - sorry Mom), no one got anything new to wear this year (well except for June who wears something new almost every day and Oliver whose pants were pushing culottes length).

After church Rachel, Christine & Nate came over and enjoyed a traditional Sunday potroast meal. Then we went on the traditional walk to search for the Easter Bunny and returned home to find, in keeping with tradition, he'd come while we were away. We sincerely hope to be able to hunt in our own back yard next year. That is the goal. (Note the Halloween baskets that got pulled out after the Easter baskets were full.)
Unfortunately we did not enjoy any chocolate bunnies from Sees this year, as others did. Ours must have gotten lost in the mail ;) But we did enjoy some beautifully decorated carrot-cake cupcakes from Rachel. The kids might not have thought it was an equal substitution, but I quite enjoyed them!

After the hunt we proceeded with the final installment in June's birthday celebration: the traditional 1-year-old-cake-eating. The only problem was that June was so exhausted due to no nap(thank you 11 o'clock church) and INCESSANT WALKING BEHIND THE WALKER (she's gotten so good she can turn it all the way around by herself when she hits an obstacle - wonder when it might occur to her to let go?!) so she wasn't really all that interested in eating it. But it was enough to be able to sing Happy Birthday and open a few more presents. Huge bonus having a sister who works at Trendy Tots!