April

Time is flying.

Well for General Conference this year I decided to have a "Feast" for breakfast.  One year we went out for breakfast.  It was fun but in the end not very practical for our family.  They would rather not wait so long to get their breakfast. 

I tried to be a bit fancy and came up with a menu. 

We had grapefruit, eggs, pancakes with whipped cream and berries, bacon or sausage, chocolate milk and yogurt.  The kids loved it and so did we.  It was fun to do and hopefully I'll be just as prepared in another 6 months. 

 We also tried our hand at making homemade doughnuts.  This is from a recipe found here.  They are baked.  So I thought that I would give them a try.  I couldn't for the life of me find a doughnut cookie cutter so we improvised (I found one at an upscale cooking store) and they turned out great.  They are made from a yeast dough.  They are ok.  If given a choice I would chose a fresh doughnut from Tim Horton's over these but for the experience these were fine.  The top ones are glazed and the bottom picture is of cinnamon/sugar ones. 

Here is Evan giving them a thumbs up.  That is one thing I like about this boy.  If it is a treat and sweet at least he is willing to give it a try.  If not and it is a dinner I cooked you can usually find him hiding under the table saying that he is full.   (Yeah, right!)

April Fools day is something that we try to celebrate in a fun way.  We didn't let the fact that it fell on a Sunday this year spoil the fun.  This is Spencer's trick.  A stuffed version of himself...to hopefully fool the kids in the morning.  This old trick hatched a few years ago....this year no one was fooled.  Sorry Spen next year you'll have to come up with something new. Thank goodness! ;)

I heard about this trick after last years april fools day and saved it for a whole year.  Minty Oreos.  Approved by the Canadian Dental Association. 

Megan was the most suspecious. Evan really wanted to eat the Oreo but after licking his fingers could sense that it wasn't quite right and Aaron was happy to munch away on the delicious cookie. 

The only other fun thing that we did for April Fool's Day was to eat worms and dirt for our dessert.

The annual dying of the Easter Eggs.  We had fun this year decorating the Easter Eggs.   Here are some pictures of our chaos.

 

  

The final beautiful product (with only a few cracked ones :)

As a side note to myself...next year I cannot display all our wonderful eggs for a week without refrigeration.  When we finally got around to using up all the eggs....lets just say that some held a yucky surprise inside. 

We celebrate the Easter Egg hunt on Saturday and leave Sunday for a more spiritual Easter celebration. 

 Here is Megan with her Easter basket.  This year we did a controlled sugar/candy Easte egg hunt.  Each of the kids got exactly the same number of eggs.  The had fun finding them.  We usually just hide them in our livingroom so it doesn't take long for them to find them all.  Some do require so reaching and actually hunting. 

 We got the kids a few other things that weren't candy related.  A new outside playground ball and the start of our Lego collection. 

 Yup. That Easter bunny even leaves some money in his eggs.

Because the Easter candy was quite limited the kids had it mostly polished off in a few days.  Which was nice.  No need to police the candy intake. 

We had a beautiful breakfast of Eggs Benedict that you can find here.  It was so yummy.  Then for Easter we had a lovely BBQ pork Chop dinner with all the trimmings. 

Oh, what lovely weather we have....

 This is a picture of our BBQ in our backyard after a little spring snowfall.  I think that at this time of year I would prefer rain to snow; then it would feel more like spring. Oh, well.  Thank goodness it warms up during the day and it melts rather quickly. 

With all the melting it provided Aaron with a good opportunity to try out his boat he made at grandpa Burt's place.