Easter!

I have written a few blog posts the past week or two but haven't posted them until now...our internet at home wasn't working, then the neighbors gave us access to their wireless but then is was time to get on a train with no internet and then the internet at our hotel was not very fast! So here is one about Easter that I wrote the day we left for Montana:

Our Easter morning began with more lemon pull-a-part bread over a cup of coffee. Then a couple of hours later we walked to Easter breakfast at church. That was an interesting experience. We’ve never eaten a meal at this church, though we have attended the services several times the past few months. We found our way to the breakfast happenings only to be confused…where was the food? Were we too late? We finally found the food but no silverware…they were serving eggs Benedict…you must have silverware to eat eggs Benedict! Joel ended up in the kitchen rummaging through drawers to find a spoon to eat his eggs Benedict! Church was great! Alleluia filled!

On the Easter dinner menu at our house:
Potato casserole, ham, green beans, fruit, homemade rolls and for dessert…bunny cake!

It was all delicious.

After dinner we did laundry…which was actually a really good thing because it was so quiet in the laundry room and all the machines were open. And it had to be done before the trek to Montana tonight!

One more trip to the coffee shop for blogging and homework posting and our day was restful and complete. Oh and Saturday night, in preparation for Easter, we cracked kinder eggs! Yep! What fun! We each cracked one…a homemade one! What’s a kinder egg you may wonder (or not)? Well, our friend Lindsay carefully took off the top of an egg shell, removed the egg inside, cleaned and sterilized the shell, then dyed them pretty colors. In came us…she invited us over to then create! You pour melted chocolate inside the shell and shake it, roll it or do whatever action you can to get the chocolate to coat the inside of the egg. Then you let it harden and you can add another layer of chocolate if you want (milk then white chocolate or vice versa). Once the inside has hardened you fill it with candy…gummy worms, nerd jelly beans, chocolate eggs, etc. Then you seal it off with a piece of chocolate (stuck on with some melted chocolate), let it sit for a while and crack! These are really big in England…in fact years ago, like over 10 years ago, when Sarah and I flew over to spend Jenn’s last week with her there, I remember cracking kinder eggs filled with little surprise toys! We couldn’t go home to be with family like we thought about doing (then were glad we canceled that thought…sorry family, but it was so good to be here to do another fertility treatment!) but overall we had a delightful Easter 2011!

Pictures: (in no particular order, cuz I never know the order until they are posted!) lemon pull-a-part bread, Easter dinner, cracking kinder eggs, bunny cake!