Three Easter photos

Because, why not?

We dyed brown eggs this year and I loved the lovely earth tones of the colors.

More eggs. My lunch. Notable because I had lunch. And it wasn't cereal. Or a granola bar. It looked so pretty when I put the fruit on I had to take a photo. Probably would have been prettier if I hadn't succumbed to that greedy third egg.

Two sisters. I love those chalky bare feet.

More foreign covers, updates, and thoughts on writing and reading to come this month.

Comments

[Karen Adair]

Beautiful!!! The girls especially. :) What cute dresses. Looks like you had a perfect Easter. :) Thanks for sharing. And congratulations on having a real breakfast. I look forward to having one of those someday.

[Calliope1of9]

The girls look so sweet. I love the curly hair. :)

[Biel]

Your lunch looks super tasty! And your girls are just so precious.

[Www]

These pictures are gorgeous!! Especially the one of your girls.

[Enna Isilee]

So cute! That looks like the picture of a magazine! (All of them! A craft magazine, a food magazine, and a kids fashion magazine! I lurve it!)

[Alysa (Ruby Diamond)]

Happy Easter! :D Do your girls go to church with bare feet? My mom let us do that one Easter Sunday (or maybe a couple of Easters? in my childhood.)

<3

[tanita]

Oh, we did brown eggs this year, too. Ours had a lot of earth tones, but we used wax resist to do the Pysanksy effect... with shaky hands... but it was good fun. Your eggs and your girls are beautiful; even your breakfast looks lovely.

Happy Spring

[MelissaPete]

I've never thought about dying brown eggs. The color is really great. Your lunch looks yummy too. I think I'm suddenly hungry...

[Julia]

Oooh....eggs....

I'm excited about this month's posts!

[Crystal Memmott]

I love the photos. The girls are adorable and the eggs look yummy :)

[nerdyem]

"Bee-you-tee-full!" As my three year-old would say. He looked out of our front window this morning and said, "You see the bee-you-tee-full flowers, Mommy?"

"Yes." Smooch, smooch. "I do, little soft cheeks!"

What lovely eggs. And the photographer is so savvy with that gorgeous natural light! :) Thanks for making my day with such happy eye candy. I'm glad you spend your time sharing your deliciousness with us at Squeetus, rather than at the black hole of Pinterest! (Stop, no, don't go--it's sucking you in!) Wink, wink.

I was rather proud of myself today too as I actually made lunch also. I gave the little ones yogurt, blueberries, and peanut butter, honey and banana sandwiches. But I was in the mood for something hot for some odd reason. (And on such a balmy day!)

So I raided the emergency food storage downstairs and came up with a packet of Ramen. Ramen? I know, wildly sophisticated. But, after scrounging up some chopped cabbage, sliced carrots, and red onions...and sauteing some shrimp with garlic, and dropping in an egg...voila! Egg drop soup to eat over the keyboard while squeezing in a little writing time during the babies' nap. It wasn't half bad.

So I found this recipe for dyeing eggs from basic kitchen ingredients that you would surely love, Shannon. You've probably already tried it, knowing you.

We (okay..."I") didn't have the stamina to give dyed-from-scratch eggs a go this year (as my husband and I were scrambling to solidify some talks for church on Sunday). So we settled happily for the vibrant hues that come from the four little bottles of dye in the box of food coloring. And then the three oldest insisted on painting pictures with acrylics on top of that--they turned out most adorable.

But my oldest son is still set on trying the from-scratch eggs, so I did tell the older kids that maybe we could experiment dyeing eggs with the beets and blueberries for the fun of it next week sometime. I'll let you know how it goes if I get up the courage. And just for your personal kicks (if you do end up reading these comments...)

Here's the list of dye ingredients:
Turmeric for golden yellow, cranberries for pale purple (sounds lovely), blueberries for blue-purple (ooh la la!), beets for pale pink, red cabbage for dark pink, and
onion skins for copper.

Copper Easter eggs? Stunning.

So my sister-in-law, Amelia, was in town this last week and we were off romping in the children's gardens of Thanksgiving Point. Fun! :) So we completely missed your giveaway for the ARC of Princess Academy. Not so fun. :( But what fun(!) those winners of the ARCs are having now--perusing through your the continuing story. :) I can't wait to get my hands on the book when it comes out. How exciting!

Alright, already. I'll stop yapping. Thanks again for always making my day with fun photos and tidbits. Like I told you at Writing for Charity, whenever I don't feel inspired, I just take a peek at squeetus, and suddenly I want to write again.

Enjoy this glorious weather! (Doesn't it even smell lovely inside our homes now with this intoxicating spring?) Happy day.

[Miriam]

You should put one of those eggs under Enna's hen...

all such pretty things though!

[Ashley R.]

Ooh! Cute cute pictures! Your girls are so adorable. :)

[Renae Hale]

Shannon,

I've just found out about you through Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, and wonder if we are related. I also married a Hale, and lived in SLC for 20 years. If you do family history, you know that all the Hale's in the west are decended from Johnathan Hale, a bishop in Nauvoo, so we must be related somehow. We're from
Alma Helamen's line, how about you?

[Jake]

TS: Oh yes, they are so fun! We were at the county fair this weneked and yes indeed the child is convinced we need bantams. So, next year when we put in our poultry order, I am thinking we need about 6 of the little buggers, probably Cochins because I have heard they are good setters. I'll take your word on the cockiness: somehow seems less scary than a 10-pound Jersey Giant attacking your leg. And yeah, they are little sneaks, aren't they? All they're trying to tell us is they want a little darkness and privacy to do their egg-laying.Alecto: Ah, previous life, check. So you come by this honestly right? I dragged my latte-sipping starched-shirt husband to Life With Chickens too and I think he's definitely a better guy for it.Taylor, yep! Over 2 dozen. Lost count at 25.Molly, when I feed everyone in the morning I swear I lose about 15 minutes every day just standing there watching them. This is before coffee so I am a bit dim anyway but I swear they are so hilarious and fun to be around. And thanks for reminding me: it is time to clean out that coop for the compost! Such happy compost.WF: Thanks for the tips! I do feed older eggs to the birds, hard-boiled or scrambled sometimes adding old dinner to it. These are some pampered poultry. But it's a good idea not to waste; me, I had no idea how old these things really were so I stuck (broke) them all into the compost. I had to break them too. Last time I just didn't and turned the pile I spooked myself by setting off two egg bombs that literally popped/exploded. No surprises in the compost, please; the snake 2 years ago was bad enough!

[Mohammad]

Alecto, you always spisrrue me. Here I am thinking Nomans is doing his clucking for the first time ever.Anne: Well, we have no boys, so there's no fertilization going on. Unless they feel like going broody and sitting, the egg-laying thing is just something they do about every day I don't think they like it considering the whoops they make. And yes, you don't need a rooster to make eggs! This is something that spisrrues some folks, I have found. But think about it, women don't need a man to be fertile, either. It just happens.

[Abou]

LOL, chooks (aussie for cenkchis) are notorious for doing that. You can either enjoy the egg hunt, and many do, or clip one wing lightly so they cannot fly the coop.Have to love those chooks, mine provide, apart from food and manure, hours of fun just watching their antics!Blessings:)

[Ahmed]

Meg,It's great to see that you have your priorities in order.Forget the sales after Christmas or (in America) Thanksgiving the sales on those bfuitueal chocolate eggs are far more important!