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1. I got some super duper cute Easter decor that was marked 75% off. Oh, and it was from Dillons (Kroger). Only spent about $9 total for two boxes of eggs, a wreath and two platters that I'm seriously in love with. They look more spring than Easter-y so I'm not even packing them away with the other Easter stuff.

Love these platters!

2. I have several books on my "to read" list including several classics - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Great Gatsby. I haven't read the former but I did read Gatsby in school. I'm wanting to re-read it before the movie comes out though. 

3. Random thought of the week - I wonder if someday my generations form of tobacco will be pop (soda for all you people that don't know what that is). You know what I mean? People smoked for years and people got addicted while no one really knew it was bad for you. Now, you have to be over 18 to buy tobacco products and they charge a fortune for them. Will that happen to pop in the future? We already know it's not good for us and that we probably shouldn't drink it but we still do. Is it crazy to think that pop can have such adverse effects on our health that someday it's behind the counter and you have to be 18 to purchase it? Would I still drink it? 

4. I'm really wanting to go see the movie "42" with my husband. It looks amazing plus we LOVE baseball.

5. I sent my husband the following last night..."I bought you two Reeses Eggs at the grocery store tonight. There's one left. I love you!!" My bad. 

6. Today makes 7 days in a row that we were able to put Gunnar in his dog pen without him running away from us. A small but great victory since he can't destroy the neighbors stuff while we are at work.  

7. My parents officially started digging the hole for their new house yesterday! Yay. Oh, and they aren't out there with shovels or anything, I meant the excavator people:) 

Linking up with Camp Patton 

What I Wore: Easter Outfit:)

Hope everyone had a fantastic Easter. Mine was wonderful and filled with family (and food).

My hubs and I got up early (7:55) and scrambled to get ready.
I have a lot of hair to curl and wanted to make sure I didn't forget all the food we needed to take.

Fortunately, rushing to get ready is something I am a champ at (because it happens way to often) and my husband thinks he is a Nascar driver so we made it to Mass 25 minutes before the 9:30 start time. Plenty of time to get prime seating on a busy Easter Sunday.

I love Mass on Easter Sunday. It's great how so many people are dressed up and celebrating that Jesus died on the cross for us and rose on the third day to save us. It is an amazing feeling to know that you are loved so much.

After Mass we stopped by my parents to put food in the fridge that would be going to Seth's family easter. We then headed over to my Aunt Roberta's for a giant family meal.

By giant I mean over 50 people. The food was excellent and there was tons of it since we all took stuff.
We took a crockpot of green beans, a green bean casserole and an angel food cake that was fluffy like a cloud.

After stuffing our faces and watching the kids hunt eggs we packed up and headed over to Easter at Seth's Grandma's house.

Here we were met with another big family and tons more food. Surprisingly, we remembered to pick up the food from my mom's house so we had a platter of fresh fruit and another angel food cake.

Is there anything more Easter-y than fluffy angel food cake? I think not.

For the Easter Egg hunt at his Grandma's, Seth thought it was the right time to teach kids that...

Life's not fair.  

The day before he had his sister, Sara, spray paint an egg gold. Then he stuck $20 in the egg and hid it for the kids to find. Basically, he was expecting all the kids to complain that Life's not fair when only 1 kid got the $20.

What really happened is that I learned Life's not fair when your husband takes the $20 from your purse to teach a lesson that nobody even cares about because they got candy.

Oh, and Happy Easter. Here's what we wore:)

Good Friday

Easter French Toast

I was craving some french toast the other night after work so I decided to make it for dinner. 

The fact that I had a loaf of Grandma's homemade bread in the freezer made the whole thing that much better.

I'm not really a french toast connoisseur or anything but I thought it tasted pretty good. So here's what I did.

Gathered my ingredients. 

• Homemade Bread
• Milk
• Farm Fresh Eggs
• Cinnamon
• Cloves
• Honey
• Vanilla

*A pat of butter for the griddle if you like.

Grandma's bread is the BEST!

Slice up the bread into whatever thickness you prefer.

Crack a couple eggs in a bowl and add some milk. 

Whisk it up. 

Pour in some vanilla. I'd say a tbsp or so.
Depends on what you like really.

Next add the cinnamon. I actually ended up adding extra after
all ingredients were together because I LOVE cinnamon.
Probably a tbsp in all.

A little nutmeg. I probably put in 1/4 tsp.

A tbsp of honey or so. 

Drop in a slice of bread. 

Dunk it to coat well

Toss on your hot griddle. *You can put butter on the griddle before you do this if you like.

Continue the process until...

...all your bread is on the griddle.

Because I like my french toast extra flavorful I melted a tbsp of butter and then stirred in a tsp of cinnamon and then brushed it on the bread. Like so. 

Mix ingredients.

Brush on bread. Continue cooking.

Once it's a nice golden color and no longer soggy it's ready and you can remove from heat and put on a plate.

I decided to cut mine into cute little shapes using cookie cutters. 

An Easter bunny.

And a couple Easter eggs. 

Sprinkle with powdered sugar if you like and then serve with syrup, honey, fruit or whatever you want. 

Extra slices.

You can store the extra slices in the fridge for a few days or wrap them up and toss them in the freezer for quick meals later on. They freeze beautifully:)