Easter Eggs!

Well, I borrowed my little friend miss K again to dye eggs. Since I always feel just a little too silly to do it alone.

This year it was incident free! We got some great colors too! (note: I like to buy the peewee sized eggs at Price Chopper, as they are only $1 a dozen, and little eggs make for a more colorful bowl).

Easter in Austin

The Easter Hunt.

Playing with our new toys.

Blowing Bubbles.

Taking pictures up each other's noses.

Loading up the quads to go home.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Once again, I borrowed a friend's child and invited Katrina to come over and colour Easter eggs with me. I just couldn't bring myself to do it alone and Jenn (my previous Easter egg colouring buddy) was just too far away to make it happen.

While I got things set up, she played with the wooden train set (yes that is pretty much the only toy we have in our house, except for teddy bears).

The set up.

Katrina helping me by putting the raw eggs into the pot to cook them.

The colouring begins!

We had one little accident and knocked over one cup. Katrina wasn't too keen on wearing her soggy shirt, so I ran around trying to figure out what to do. The only thing I could come up with was one of my T-shirts with several hair elastics holding it in place.

Here she is admiring the finished product. She was quite disappointed when I told her there were no more eggs to colour and as you can see we did almost three dozen. I have to say, if you can find them in your area, pee wee eggs are the best for colouring. Here, I can get them at Price Chopper for a buck a dozen and because they are so small the bowl looks that much more colourful.

See what I mean?

We also baked cookies, but of course there's no pictures of that. When I asked Katrina what she wanted, chocolate chip or raisin, she chose raisin in an instant. I was surprised, but Michael was thrilled because he got oatmeal raisin cookies, which I don't make very often.

Hanging out in Toronto

Part of our time in Ontario was spent in Toronto. We started with a mini Friesen family gathering, where we enjoyed some borscht and fresh baked bread for an Easter Monday dinner.

The traditional 'tisch bild'

I stuck around for an extra couple of days to get in some girl time with my cousin Debbie. One of the things we did was bake paska. An Easter tradition, that I didn't have time for before we left for Ontario. It was good fun!

Debbie also humored me and we did some shopping. I looked up some yarn stores and fabric stores. I was on a quest to find fabric to use in my green room for a little filing cabinet cover project that i wanted to do (mission accomplished, completed project to follow). yarn shops were for no particular reason other than it's fun to touch beautiful yarn. We stopped for lunch in this great little crepe place. It was delicious!

Then since we had some time to kill, we went for pedicures around the corner. This was also very nice! I ended up choosing blackcherry again. I think pick that color almost every time I go.

And in true sleepover fashion, we through nutrition to the wind and ate 'gotta have it' sized coldstone creamery dishes for supper. awesome! (hopefully it kinda balanced out with eating at fresh the day before?)

that's about all. i really enjoyed the chance to hang out with debbie. we haven't done that in a long time!

Easter in Ontario

Michael and I scored some cheap tickets through westjet, so we headed to Ontario for Easter and spent a week there. Michael's family lives in Aylmer & surrounding area, so we spent most of our time there.

We were at the Harms gathering:

complete with a tischbild:

And there was a Peters gathering:

Michael and I also hung out with his cousin Barry and Rebekka & their kids:

Brian had a hockey game, so we went and watched:

I don't have pictures of this one, but we also hung out with Michael's Uncle Abe & Aunt Betty and their kids. We dyed easter eggs together (thanks! that is a ritual that I very much enjoy), and stayed up way too late talking!

Overall, it was a good time. I did feel a little sick at one point (missed out on the Peters gathering egg hunt) and as usual was over tired, but we had a good time!

Easter

Jenn & I colored easter eggs together again. I discovered peewee eggs at Price Chopper, they are smaller than small eggs & it's $1 for a dozen.

We also had a gather at Michael's parents...

Easter!

This year I made paska again, on Thursday before Bad Friday, it sort of hadn't occurred to me until last minute, because I was so busy with school. Anyway, I called Oma this time, to avoid any further mishaps like last year, and got some instructions and double checked my recipe. Turns out, it is supposed to be a soft, sticky dough (not like bread). It turned out much better!

We didn't have an Easter dinner at our place this year, but we had a big family gathering at Michael's parents place. It was really great. There was extra people compared to the usual 7. Grandma & Grandpa Peters were in from Ontario, Unlce Isaac was there as well as great-aunt Lisa. We had a big Easter hunt, which was a lot of fun, and reminded me of the Loewen hunts we used to have.

{I've been waiting to post this until I got some pictures from the rest of the clan, because of course we didn't take any of our own, but it seems no one had their camera out for the actual hunt, but here's some standard hanging out pics and a "tischbild" }

This is Cate, and the only evidence I have that we had an Easter Hunt.

The "tisch bild" (this means table picture directly translated, and it is something that my Oma Friesen almost always asks for at a family gathering, it's become a bit of a legend.)