Hippity, Hoppity~

When I walked into the kitchen this morning, I checked the kettle, then turned to look at the birdbath on the patio. I frequently check the birdbath to see which feathered friends are visiting...and that is when I saw them! In the planter behind the birdbath is an Iris which just bloomed today! I got excited and called to my husband (little things like this make my day! lol) and asked him if he had noticed the gorgeous purple flowers. I am amazed at how this plant always blooms  just in time for Easter. I'm serious. How does this Iris know just when to bloom, especially when Easter is not on the same date each year? It is a sweet little miracle of Spring~

College Girl helped me as I set the table for Easter brunch. I printed out some darling images from Amanda's Parties To Go, and she cut them out using a 2" circle punch and scissors.

Peter Rabbit made an appearance~ I made him when I was expecting College Girl....that was a few years ago! He has a jaunty raffia bow around his neck today.

We used a mix of Brambly Hedge dishes and carrot napkin rings~

The oat grass I planted for kitty makes a wonderful nest for our colored Easter Eggs since it is not quite long enough for feline nibbling...yet!

You can just see the fern leaf images we masked onto the hardboiled eggs: we placed a small fern sprig against the egg, wrapped the egg in tulle, and dipped them in the purple and blue vinegar color solution. Upon close inspection, you can easily make out the pretty mesh design on the shell too!

There are paper bunnies, cloth bunnies and bunnies made of glass~

The bunny creamer is dressed in beaded crochet~

A large paper egg looks so festive on the table~

Amanda's printables even had an 8.5" x 11" sentiment that we placed in a frame~ I'll move it onto the kitchen island at mealtime.

We are all set for Easter morning, so guess what we did tonight? I have to laugh because my husband and I are such kids at heart and College Girl plays along. She is so great to humor us!! lol~

Hubby and I put glow-in-the-dark sticks in plastic eggs and hid them in the backyard after dinner. We bent the glow sticks into circles and taped them that way, then enclosed them in the plastic eggs. They glowed all around the yard! How cool is that? We also hid some plastic eggs that did not have glow sticks in them, then we invited College Girl to go outside with a flashlight and find them all!!! She was such a good sport.

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional! We are going to have a glow-in-the-dark egg hunt next year too :)

Rejoice!

We could not wait to cut into the Crumb Coffee Cake! It was wonderful with a cup of Kusmi Troika tea scented with bergamot. We used the recipe from Baking Illustrated and made the coffee cake in a spring form pan. We used Greek yogurt, vanilla and cinnamon. Yum!

                      Easter blessings to you!

Without Easter we would have no hope of Heaven~

sharing this with Mrs. Fox's Sweets