Last weekend, I had the chance to celebrate Easter with some friends from work: Melissa and Jonathan and their 3-year-old daughter Ellen, who are recently-arrived transplants from Minnesota (Melissa and I started grad school together), and Paul and Jessica and their two-year-old Jakob, who I've mentioned before. All of us went south to Ticino or Italy for Easter weekend, and Melissa had the good idea to celebrate Easter in a more traditional fashion, just a weekend late. We dyed Easter eggs and also did some crafts that my dear friend Jessi had sent me from London. We had lots of fun doing crafts together!
While we were doing crafts, the Easter bunny was hard at work outside, hiding eggs in the yard, so it was time for an Easter egg hunt afterwards. The kids were so cute and did a good job of finding eggs, although Jakob was just as happy throwing them out of his basket as putting them in.
After the egg hunt, it was time for Easter brunch, complete with cinnamon twists, eggs, sausage, a fruit salad, and mimosas. Yum!
While I totally had a lovely Easter hanging out with Stefanie and her family, it was also really nice to get to dye some eggs and participate in some other Easter traditions with other friends. I rather like this rhythm of celebrating holidays twice: I've had two Thanksgivings, and now two Easters! Not too shabby...
While we were doing crafts, the Easter bunny was hard at work outside, hiding eggs in the yard, so it was time for an Easter egg hunt afterwards. The kids were so cute and did a good job of finding eggs, although Jakob was just as happy throwing them out of his basket as putting them in.
After the egg hunt, it was time for Easter brunch, complete with cinnamon twists, eggs, sausage, a fruit salad, and mimosas. Yum!
While I totally had a lovely Easter hanging out with Stefanie and her family, it was also really nice to get to dye some eggs and participate in some other Easter traditions with other friends. I rather like this rhythm of celebrating holidays twice: I've had two Thanksgivings, and now two Easters! Not too shabby...
