Easter Weekend

Face Paint!

Today was a good day, tomorrow being Easter there were tons of Easter Egg hunts around town.  We tagged along with Noelle and the girls to two.  The first was huge! It was a whole carnival, complete with Petting Zoo, Pony Rides, and Face Painting.  It was so cute when Trin pulled up to the ribbons decorated park at the second Easter Egg hunt.  She has a birthday soon and it looked like a great party, "Mom am I four?" she thought the party was for her.  Sweet.

Rolling dough builds character and strong arms.

What I really was looking forward to was making monkey bread.  I actually got up early and made the dough so it would be ready to work with when I got home. 

Trinity helped me make the rolls.  She is getting pretty good with the rolling pin.   We did finally get some rolls made, they barely made it out of the oven before being eaten, and the only reason they lasted that long was because David, Trin and I also made monkey bread.  I love monkey bread, and you can find a tastey recipe here http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2010/08/27/monkey-bread-recipe/

I wanted to take a picture, but it wasn't to be, here are my cinnimon rolls instead. 

Easter Chicks Deviled Eggs

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These chicks were so cute I really had to try them...







I wanted to have a chance to practice them before Easter dinner.

It's a good thing too, because I think that I'll give mine a D- for looks, and an A for taste.  My mixture was too thin, and the top of the egg too heavy. It looks really messy, but I assure you that they taste just fine.
I will be practicing them again.  Hopefully in the two weeks til Easter I have a chance to perfect the look.

Zipper Bracelet

Original Site

Project 2 wasn't as tastey, but it was a lot fun.  We saw this and just knew that we could do that too.  I also thought that it would fit Alexis's personality.

For the first one I used a 7 inch zipper. That one I ended up giving to Matthew because it is just so big. Back to the craft store a 5 inch zipper. It was a tiny bit small, so I added so links and loops to make it fit.

This is what we ended up with...

Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries

I recently found Pinterest like a lot of other people have, and my husband and I have been getting really creative.  I wanted to be able to showcase some of the fun stuff we have been doing.
First Project...
Cheesecake stuffed Chocolate Covered Stawberries. YUM!!

I saw these on Pinterest one day and happened to mention to my hubby. The very next day we were in the kitched creating. These aren't the prettiest ever but OH-MY!!! We will be doing this again.

We used large strawberries and scooped out the middle with a small metal measuring spoon. Then we dipped the berries into metlable semi-sweet chocolate.
The filling was Jello brand cheesecake mix. I put the mix into a ziplock baggie and cut the corner off and squeezed it into the straberries like a pastry bag.  I have seen some variations with grahm cracker crumbs on the top, and the cocolate drizzled on instead of dipped.  I think I will try that the next time I make these because the chocolate was really thick and when you bite into them, it squeezes everything out the end.