Easter 2024

Happy Easter everyone!

As you all might know, Andrew and I host Easter (almost) every year. This past weekend, we celebrated with our families and it was amazing! My parents came Friday and left last night after dinner. Andrew’s parents and his brother came up yesterday just for the day.

So what all did we get up to? Friday night I made us Pasta Al Limone, which is basically pasta in a lemon cream sauce. I found the recipe on Instagram and it turned out delicious! Saturday, Andrew made his famous french toast for breakfast. It’s one of our favorites, but more importantly it’s my mom’s favorite so we love to make it for her. My mom also taught me how to make tuna pinwheels, and it was so delicious! Should I do a post on that recipe— let me know what you think in the comments! Saturday dinner was enchiladas, which were yummy and gave me a lot more lunches as leftovers than I anticipated, whoops.

To work on celebrating Easter on Saturday, we dyed eggs! It was a lot of fun, even if the crayons from my now 3 or 4 year old kits didn’t work the best.

Sunday we went to mass at 7:30, which definitely felt early but worked out great because they don’t use incense at that mass. After mass, we had breakfast and did some final touches of prep before more people came over. When Andrew’s parents arrived, we had an easter egg hunt for our pups. It didn’t go so well, definitely no where as well as Jake’s nosework easter egg hunt did, but it was still fun. Andrew’s brother showed up shortly after that. We served appetizers and then our meal with dessert. I went a little cutesy this year, but I think everything turned out great! For apps, I made easter bunny puff pastry stuffed with cream cheese and our homemade pepper jelly, caprese skewers, and a flower veggie tray.

Between apps and dinner, we hung out and caught up as a family. Andrew’s mom brought our pups pigs ears as a treat.

I think we finally made about the right amount of food for dinner. We had ham that Andrew made in the smoker, a salad kit, rolls from Andrew’s parents, scalloped potatoes, arugula and avocado pesto pasta, and maple glazed carrots. Andrew and his brother did a great job setting the table for us (sorry, no individual pictures of the dinner dishes!). We also had wine, beer, lemonade, and iced tea available to people.

After dinner, we served individual desserts: puff pastry nests with chocolate pudding and mini cadbury eggs. They were a big hit!

My parents left shortly after dinner to head home, but Andrew’s family stayed for a little bit longer. It was really nice to catch up, plus Jake made a new friend in Brian while Goldy played with Andrew’s mom.

Overall, we had a great weekend and an amazing Easter Sunday. We are so thankful for how close we are with our families and cannot wait to celebrate Easters to come with them and our future child. I hope everyone had a Happy and Blessed Easter this year!

~Natalie