easter weekend

B and I spent a relaxing weekend with his family for Easter.  It was full of food, great conversation, amazing desserts, lovely drinks, good music, and lots of love.

My amazing MIL made SmittenKitchen's icebox cupcakes in festive Easter pastels.

Beautiful and delicious!  These cupcake/cookies are little homemade chocolate wafers stacked with fresh whipped cream in between.  After a day in the fridge, the cream softens the cookies and you have the perfect cookies and cream sandwich.  yum.

We enjoyed Easter dinner at a beautifully set table (and no, we really weren't at Martha's house).

It is a blessing to celebrate the saving grace that Christ freely gives with those we love :)

happy easter eggs!

Big kudos to not martha for making such amazing Easter eggs:  sweet little eggs filled with sweet little treats.  There is even an easy version. Her colors are beautiful, and luckily for us, she gives her exact mix of food coloring to make the perfect hues (her magic ingredient seems to be neon food coloring!).

easy eggs from notmartha

lovely, more labor-intensive eggs