Easter at the cottage

I hope you had a good Easter? Ours was so nice, it was great to have wonderful weather and to be outside enjoying it.  

Sugarwings takes after me and doesn't bother with the silly, wire egg dipper. We both end up with dyed fingers, even more colorful than our eggs.

Sugarwings had a friend over to dye and hunt for eggs.  Around here, we use dress up clothes instead of aprons for messy work, so the girls dug through the princess dresses to find something festive and to keep the dye off their regular clothes.

I should have put on a royal costume too, because my brand new, pale blue jeans ended up with more than a few smatterings of purple on them.

I love the snow boots with the pink dress! She chose those because they are the boots she was shopping for the day she met her best friend at Famous Footwear.  They have been buddies since then.  

Lee Lee and La La, forever friends.

After the eggs were dipped, we moved on to decorating cupcakes.  Normally, we are very careful to keep food coloring out of Sugarwing's diet, but we figured a few sprinkles on a holiday wasn't going to hurt.   I did bake gluten and dairy free cupcakes, otherwise known as bricks, and purchase organic, natural colored jelly beans to fill the plastic eggs.

 Oh my god, those were the most expensive jelly beans I've ever seen! I filled a bag at the bulk food aisle, and am still in sticker shock at the price tag.  My bagful of beans was over $20.  And to think of all of those bags of regular jelly beans going on sale the day after Easter for a quarter, really puts it into perspective.  

But when your little one has difficulties, any price or amount of trouble  is, of course,  worth it to help them.  

I would spend my last penny to see this smile.

Sadly, we didn't have a crowd this year for our annual egg hunt.  We are doing a bit of out door remodelling and our patio is ripped out, and the yard is a wreck, so we didn't have a big party.  Dewdrop was with her other siblings and mom for the day and they weren't able to attend.

 We were glad that her friend was able to spend the day with us, and even more special was that this was La La's first ever, egg hunt. She'd never dyed eggs either.

Sugarwings also got to meet up with an old friend at the egg hunt the nursing home her mom works at held on Saturday.

Many of the residents delighted were by the party.  

This bunny's face might seem a bit creepy, but I can promise the kids loved her!  It was a cute event at the nursing home.  I'm all about cute, I possibly enjoyed the day even more than the kids.

I was just kind of wishing I had my own bunny costume.  And I'd probably rather have vintage one that was slightly creepy. I love this one.