Easter!!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays and it has already come and gone. I love the bright colors, the promise of spring and the great food that accompany this holiday. I love this holiday so much that it took us two weekends to celebrate. The first stage of celebration included an intense game of Killer Bunnies and some great homemade Easter goodies. I should have taken pictures of the people instead of solely the food, but apparently my priorities are with the food.

These delicious chocolates were made by my friend Mary.

She is simply amazing. They tasted just like real Reeses.

Easter cannot be celebrated without eating some Chow Mein nests.

Or even, my personal favorite "deviled" eggs.

The next stage happened on Easter Day. Jared woke up to me jumping on the bed claiming to have just seen the Easter Bunny (I do believe in him). I pulled him out of bed to see the spoils. Sitting on the table was a glorious Easter basket filled with a chocolate bunny, a matchbox car and an Easter egg. The Easter bunny did somehow put a new scrubber sponge thing in the basket as well. I am super excited about that. In the Easter egg was a clue. Jared had a hunt to embark on. He struggled with the first couple of clues. He claims it was because he was awakened early, but I give the credit to the amazing clue writer. After he finally finished his Easter egg hunt we sat down to an Easter breakfast of eggs and toast. We then relaxed on our "Big Daddy" love sac and watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It was a cute but random movie. After the movie we decided to have some fun with the Easter Jell-o molds I have collected. Jell-o is the best way to celebrate Easter.

This is what our Jell-o looked like when we were finished.
Jell-o eggs and Jell-o Beans. They were fun to slither down our throats.

After a relaxing day of doing not much of anything. We made a wonderful classic Easter dinner. The dinner consisted of ham, garlic mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls and strawberry shortcake.


We had invited a friend, who is a visiting linguistic professor from Beijing. She had no idea what Easter was about and had never tasted the gloriousness of an Easter feast. She had never even heard of Jell-o. When she tried the Jell-o all she could do was giggle and ask how we made it. I was glad to introduce her to an American classic. Spending the evening with her and her friend was the perfect way to end Easter. Overall this Easter was one of the best. I was not and am not ready for it to end. I have decided to leave my Easter decorations up for at least another week to drag out the holiday. Happy Easter!!

Here we are right before eating the feast. MeiLing was so happy to
celebrate Easter. Her friend was taking the picture and therefore was
not in the picture.