Ok, it's kinda hard to tell in the picture, but it has a giant pen, a thing of bubbles, and a "sticky creature" bunny that you throw at the window or wall and it sort of flops down it. He got quite a kick out of the creature and had to show it to both his sister and his parents when we FaceTimed them. And nothing in that basket cost more than $1, which is much better than my Easter bunny can say about my basket...
It's pretty hidden, but it's got Despicable Me 2 in there, as well as Nerf Guns (definitely more for Chrisser's enjoyment than mine...:) ) and 3 different chocolate bunnies. (And yes it was hidden in the fridge, haha.) Yeah, it was a good thing that Chrisser had a bunch of cash on him from people repaying him for ballroom concert tickets. I don't include cash on my financial records because it is too hard to keep track of if you don't get a receipt or you lose some, so I don't even know how much that stuff cost (thank goodness). (And don't worry, I used our tax refund to pay off the credit card Chrisser had bought the concert tickets with in the first place.) (I am having a lot of fun with parentheses today, aren't I?)
Anyway, I spent the rest of the morning making rolls. I decided to try something I found on Pinterest where you make round rolls and clip the dough before baking them to make little bunny ears. Only mine turned out more like demon biscuits, haha. I didn't even take a picture of them, they were so horrifying. I think part of the problem is that I clipped them after they had risen, which of course made them deflate. If I try them again I will definitely try clipping them before letting them rise, and see if that works better.
Then we went to church. One of the guys in our ward gave a really good talk in Sacrament Meeting (okay, I'm sure all the talks were great, but I was having a really hard time paying attention to the others). I don't remember everything he said, but the gist of it was inviting us to ask ourselves which of the 5 types of disciples in the Easter story we wanted to be--faithful like John, hopeful like Mary Magdalene, doubtful like the group of apostles, slothful like the 2 disciples on the road to Emmaus, or faithless like Thomas.
Then we came home and made dinner. I had gotten some pork chops because a) they were cheap, and b) Chrisser's brother actually bought them for us along with a few other groceries because he had a bunch of leftover meal plan money that would expire at the end of the semester. So that was nice. Chrisser cooked them up for me while I made the rest of dinner and ironed the tablecloth (yup, I went all out on this dinner!).
I guess you can kinda see the demon biscuits there in front of the ducky wearing bunny ears (isn't he cute?). And there's also mashed potatoes (the gravy was on the stove) and broccoli and cauliflower. It was delicious (at least Chrisser told me so about 7 times... :) ). Although it was also very tiring chewing the pork chops, so we decided the next thing we would do was watch the VeggieTales Easter Carol (we watch a VeggieTales every Sunday) so that we could just sit and rest.
After that we dyed eggs. We decided to try dying them with Kool-Aid this year (another Pinterest idea--1 packet and 1/2 cup of water) since that would be cheaper. It worked pretty well, smelled better than other dyes, and gave us very vibrant colors!
Though we discovered that Grape does not actually make them purple, but rather a nasty gray. Oh well. Also, our eggs weren't very creative this year because we couldn't get the crayons to work for some reason. And we're pretty sure it had something to do with the eggs themselves, because they wouldn't work even before we put the eggs in the Kool-Aid. Sad. But we were done really quickly since we didn't really have to spend time thinking, haha.
All in all, it was a good holiday and we enjoyed spending it together. And here are a few pictures of the jelly beans and Robin's Eggs that the Easter bunny left around the house.
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