Easta Time is da time for da eggs!

HaPpY eAsTeR! 

Easter is one of my favorite times of the year. Not only because of the spring flowers, new baby animals, pastel colored dresses, and chocolates, but also (and probably most importantly) because of Christ's resurrection. 

Although I do not personally like hard boiled eggs, I happen to love dying them at Easter time. The funny thing is that my sister Tammy and I certainly enjoyed dying the eggs more than my little niece did. Just to give you an idea of the way Tammy and I dye eggs- picture eggs of all creation of colors, with designs created from white crayons. Flowers, swirls, words, sunrises, etc. Of course, being the literature lovers that we are...we had to decorate a couple of our eggs with poetry! Dying eggs and reading poetry out loud with my sister - Oh happiness! (Sadly, I don't have any pictures)

Here is a copy of the poem we took segments from to decorate our eggs! 

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

by e.e. cummings

Of course Easter also included family, friends, ham, sour cream potatoes, way too much candy, a successful Easter egg hunt around the backyard with the grandchildren, Strawberry Shortcake, and a new Jenny delectable concoction thanks to skinnytaste: EASTER CUPCAKES!!

I finished my last day of classes, which means I am heading into the storm of finals. (ugh, I can already feel my brain starting to hurt) BUT- in just 8 short days, I'll be free of finals and driving in a car full of my favorite girls on our way to the beaches of CALIFORNIA!!

"Oh California, I'm coming home

Oh make me feel good rock 'n roll band

I'm your biggest fan

California I'm coming home"