Wealer Easter sponsored by Pinterest!

I really like Pinterest.  I don't need an intervention yet, but I do find myself getting distracted from time to time. My favorite thing to look up is recipes.  I have already gathered & printed enough recipes to fill a one inch 3-ring binder.  And dinner conversation usually starts like this..."So, is this a pinterest recipe?"  And at the end of dinner the kids give it a rating so we can decide if it goes into the rotation.  So far we've found about 90% are keepers!

It's no surprise that we found some ideas on Pinterest to help us with Easter weekend this year.  It all started with Kool-Eggs!  Who knew you could dye the eggs just using water & kool-aid packets?  They were beautiful!  (And I used all the eggs the kids dyed to make my deviled eggs for Easter dinner.)

Artists hard at work.  

The colors were really pretty!

Our next project was a little Easter treat for our guests on Sunday.  We made m&m pretzel flowers!  These were super simple & the kids were able to do them mostly on their own.  All I had to do was put them into the oven & then remove 5 minutes later.  

Put chocolate kisses on top of pretzels.  I think the rule was place one, then eat one.

Ready for the oven.  5 minutes at 200 degrees.

Adding petals to the flowers after the chocolate kiss is warm & soft.

Peanut m&m for center and regular m&m's for the petals.

The artists are proud of their work! (Yes, that's chocolate on Bubba's forehead.)

Sunday morning we woke up to create our special spring dessert.  Jackie & I looked online for some time trying to find the one that *spoke* to us.  We decided on the Strawberry Lemonade layer cake.  What does it taste like?  Well, strawberry lemonade, of course.  But if that's not a good enough description, I would have to say that it simply tasted like summertime!  YUM!

 Josie adding the lemonade layer.

Jackie creating the strawberry smiley face on top.

Proud artists again!  They said the strawberries were a lion smiley face.  Do you see it?

I must admit that it took a bit of self control not to take over on the layering process of this cake.  In the end, it may not look like a professional cake, but there were NO complaints when we dug in after dinner.  This cake certainly got some compliments as it was a perfect end to a perfect day!

But that wasn't tend end of our weekend--the kids had ONE more day of spring break today, the day after Easter.  And they started in first thing this morning needing to be entertained!  So...Pinterest to the rescue again!  We whipped up some Washable Chalk Spray Paint  for outside fun!

Pink & Blue

The boy chose green.

Outside art is just as fun as kitchen art! (And easier to clean up!!)

We finished off our evening with a new recipe for dinner--not springy or Easter-y, but super YUMMY!  Kids all go back to school tomorrow (whew!) & I'll be working on rounding up activities and recipes for the next break this summer!