Festivity

One of my goals this year was to make more festive and seasonal decorations for the house. One of Ben's sisters is a pro at this. Every month inspires a reworking of her decor. It's not just a wreath on the door. It's a theme throughout the entire house. She's pulls it off cohesively and tactfully. But you know it's taken a few years of careful buying and crafting.

So I wanted to get start on my own festive decorations.

Well, ladies and gentleman, we are 1 season and 4 major holidays down this year and I have no evidence of celebration except for some dollar store plastic Easter eggs and a half made Valentine garland (I started on it the day before. I didn't finish).

Even without my wanted holiday decor, I was determined to make something of Easter this year.

Something I've discovered this year is that the Browns are not a very tradition-y bunch. I can ask Ben all I want about his favorite childhood traditions and his answer is always the same: "I don't know. We didn't have many."

Sad! Right?

More and more I'm realizing I have to be the one who plans the tradition AND the one who gets excited about it. Otherwise, it's not going to happen.

And I think Ben really does like it. He just doesn't think to make it happen.

So for Easter, in a determined frenzy, I made sure that we had some fun Easter-y activities planned.

We colored Easter eggs!

Ben drew my face on one. Doesn't it look exactly like me?

We started dyeing at 10:50pm (yeah...whoops...). Ben finished
at 10:55. Me? 11:22. I did 2 eggs. Ben did 4.  You do the math.

See the rainbow egg on the left? That's mine. I rock.
32 minutes well spent? I think so!

 So my family's tradition is that my dad (the Easter bunny), hides our candy-which is usually just a candy bar. When we wake up, we set out to find our treat. Sometimes it's hidden easily-like in the piano bench. But more often than not, he'll hide it in some impossibly elaborate place. One time, he cut out pages in the middle of a phone book and slipped the candy in the little square that was created. Another time, he put the candy down a vent with fishing line. Yeah. Sometimes our searching trickles into Monday.

Last year, Ben and I were engaged and living in Cedar for Easter. I hid his candy in the freezer, which I thought would be a dead give away. To put it simply and without making my husband sound like a whiner, Ben didn't like it very much (maybe that's where his lack of enthusiasm for traditions comes from. Hmmm...).

This year, I still hid his candy. He still put up a bit of a stink.


Luckily, he found his candy in a matter of minutes.
Otherwise, there's no telling what he would've done;)

Our yummy Easter dinner.

Ben made fun of me for taking a picture of our dinner, but this was a big deal for me! It was my first time ever making a roast AND making a dinner with so many components. Turns out roast is easy. It's the gravy that takes some getting used to. Anyhow, it was delicious and I was really proud of myself. So make fun all you want.

Anyhow, I hope everyone else had a Happy Easter! Tell me about your Easter traditions! One of my friends has an Easter Spider. Weird, but totally awesome.