Happy Easter!

This is probably the first weekend in a while that left me more tired than when it started.  Holidays have that effect...

I spent most of the week baking and cooking for Easter.  I made 4 loaves of bread on Wednesday (I meant to make 2, but didn't completely read the recipe before adding ingredients), another loaf of bread on and Cidic (Slovak Easter cheese) on Friday.  I also made Chicken salad on Saturday morning for a potluck/clothing swap with some friends.  I was cooked out... and that isn't even that much cooking.  Good thing Aaron does a lot of the cooking in our house!

Paska bread and Cinnamon Walnut bread!

Cidic -  aka. cold scrambled eggs with extra milk and butter

We dyed Easter eggs on Thursday too!  Turns out, it is WAY less exciting when there are only 2 of you, you are both over the age of 10, and you only dye 12 eggs.  But we dyed them anyway!  It took a grand total of 10 minutes.  And yes, we used solo cups... we are classy like that.

We had our own Easter on Saturday.  We woke up far too early to take my car into the shop for an inspection before Aaron drives it down to the Masters and then we came back and enjoyed the traditional Liggett Easter breakfast!  With leftover wine from the night before...

The breakfast includes Cidic, Paska bread, kielbasa, ham, and a dyed egg with your name on it.  We added Cinnamon Walnut bread in case Aaron didn't like Paska bread.  Turns out, he's a big fan!  So the Cinnamon Walnut bread is probably out next year.  Too much work, not that good.

We also had our Easter egg war.  When we dye eggs, we each write our names on an egg with a white crayon before we dye it... so that once it's dyed, your name appears!  We made Gus and Lucy eggs too... because they are my children and I treat them like people.  At breakfast, you bash the eggs together on the ends and whoever's egg doesn't break wins!  You do this on both ends on the egg with everybody at the table until there is one egg left with at least one side left unbroken.  They win!  Gus won this year!  Aaron was sad...

This is the 3rd year in a row that the Egg War victory has eluded him.  Last year Lucy won and the year before that I won.  Maybe next year is his year... he's already planning his strategy.  He's far too into this.

After breakfast, I went to the clothing swap and Jeff came over to help Aaron put a back splash in our kitchen!

After the swap, we headed down to Mom and Dad Ballew's house for Easter!  Joel and Brent and their families were already there and we spent the night just hanging out with family (and watching UK lose... but we will not speak of such horrid events).

Easter morning was chaos.  8 adults, 3 kids, 5 dogs, 2 showers.  It was nuts.  Aaron and I brought the extra loaf of Paska bread and everybody ate it for breakfast and seemed to really like it!  After the madness was over, we went to church and came back for a delicious Easter lunch and an Easter egg hunt!  It was perfect weather!  Aaron and I were in charge of hiding the eggs... 

After the eggs were found (and hidden and found again multiple times by the kids), Brent and Jessica left, Joel and Linetta and their kids napped and had quiet time (for the non-napper), and Aaron and I hung out on the back porch with Mimi and PopPop.  After a little while, we also packed up and headed home to do laundry and relax at home...

It was another great weekend... but I think I need another mini-break after all of the excitement!  Happy Easter and happy Spring!!!!