Easter in Clearwater, Florida ~ camping with my brother in law and sister in law

  

 

 



Breakfast at Tiffany's :D :D


 
full moon swim

home sweet home

Easter in Florida!

 


 
Happy Happy Easter....from our family to yours!

Happy Easter!

Coastal Unschoolers' Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt and Pot Luck

all dec'd out for Easter:)

Happy Easter!!

Chocolate Peanutbutter Eggs

Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs
Ingredients:
1/2 - cup butter, softened
2 -1/3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 - cup graham cracker crumbs
1/2 - cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 - teaspoon vanilla extract
12 0z - milk chocolate almond bark, prefer Plymouth pantry
1 - egg tray or mold
Easter sprinkles
Directions:
In a large bowl, cream butter; gradually add the confectioners' sugar, cracker crumbs, peanut butter and vanilla.
Shape into 16 eggs; place on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. You can also use a plastic egg tray to shape eggs. Place in the freezer for 30 minutes or until firm.
In a microwave, melt chocolate bark on the defrost setting. Melt in 3 minutes intervals until the chocolate is smooth when stirred.
Using a fork dip eggs in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Immediately decorate with sprinkles; return eggs to waxed paper. Chill until set.
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Recipe Yields: 16 - 18 eggs.
Note: Since the peanut butter eggs are frozen before you dip them. The chocolate will set up pretty quick, so make sure to have the sprinkles close by. I used my thin flat metal spatula that I used to frost cakes to pop the peanut butter eggs out of the molds.  

http://www.mommyskitchen.net/2012/04/chocolate-peanut-butter-easer-eggs.html

spring is in the air !!!!

or hopefully it will be soon for everybody!

 
Piper's checking out the bunny; you know, for future reference and all!
  

notice my cool new chalkboard :D




Hippitoy Hoppity, Easter's on its way!

Easter 2012

We had a fabulous Easter vacation; in Florida, of course:)  Now that we've shaved about 17.5 hours off our drive to Florida, we tend to go there, a lot;)  But, having all the snowbird grandparents there would of course be the big reason for all the trips down.

 

Saturday morning, we drove to Cleremont to hand-deliver three custom bracelet orders to an old friend.  It was great to see her, and she was thrilled with the bracelets (as are her daughters!)  

On Saturday afternoon we headed to Taveres, Florida, where there was a Planes, Trains, and Automobile Festival.  The automobiles were of course classic cars, the planes were seaplanes, that did some really cool acrobatics, and the train, as pictured above, was a woodburning steam train.  J and the girls took a ride on the train and got caught up in a train robbery:O

The conductor was held at gunpoint, begging for mercy that he was "too young to die."  I'm happy to report that everybody was ok, the passengers returned to safety, and the conductor did not die that day:)

Obviously, this is one of the sea planes.

 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch....I literally have to do a double-take to realize these photos are of Piper and Brie, not Cookie and Buddy:)

We celebrated a wonderful Easter Sunday at my parents' house.  The girls awoke and hurriedly put on their fabulous new Easter dresses....treasures found by grandma...two dresses only....in their exact sizes, and for the bargain price of $2 a piece!!   They then found their baskets, and hunted for Easter Eggs (Fairy Girl found the golden egg!)  Then they colored eggs!

Don't my little southern belles look sweet?

Little Ms. Angel wanted to make her very own dessert to contribute to our Easter dinner....she chose (a boxed mix, my suggestion to use a mix) of lemon squares---she did the work all by herself, and they were a hit!

She also insisted that the house be beautifully decorated in Easter Art, which she contributed herself as well!

We had a wonderful Easter with all the grandparents, cousins and friends (not everybody is pictured, we had 12 for dinner, plus two more friends in the evening for dessert).

We had so much fun in Taveres Saturday, that we decided to head back there on Monday, intead of going to Sea World (our passes are good through the fall, and I personally wasn't interested in competing with the spring break crowds).

 But the girls didn't mind at all, because they had a cute little lake-front splash park!

And a big beautiful wooden playground!  We brought the puppies and had a picnic as well!

We hope you had a wonderful Easter!