It's Time for Bunny Cake!

Everyone who is close to our family knows there is a large cake every Easter Sunday for all to share. It is made with jelly beans, green food colored coconut, string licorice and two eight-inch round cake pans which are magically cut into pieces that form a bunny. This is a serious Easter tradition.

Notice the photo of Cameron and candles-we were also celebrating his 2nd birthday

The story is the tradition started when my mom cut the recipe out of Parade Magazine several years ago and it has been made by someone in the family ever since.

I think this is why I love holidays-not only because of the cake but because of the tradition behind it all. This girl loves tradition. Plus it's all of the things I love most wrapped up into one: spending time with family, cooking good food, eating (of course) and doing it all over again the next time.

So to keep up with tradition I did my usual running around the night before Easter making sure everything was perfect for the morning. I even went to the grocery store that night to make sure I had everything ready for the breakfast rolls that would accompany the badly colored hard boiled eggs in the morning. My mom always had rolls on Easter Sunday.

I was begining to feel worried when my six-year old said the Easter Bunny was not a 'real person' so I did my best effort to make the deck as messy as I could. There were jelly beans and half eaten carrots everywhere in the morning. Something I would normally never allow.

It's amazing how affordable and entertaining an Easter egg hunt is. I should really do this more often. Ninety-nine cents for eggs, $2 for candy, 20 minutes of preparation time and you are set with an experience as exciting as Sea World.

My Bunny

Cousins Photo - Easter Suday 2012

Other Stories from the Last Couple Weeks:

Surviving an 18.5 hour car ride to and from Florida with three kids and actually enjoying most of the ride ( I knew in the end it would be worth the experience and it was)

Keaton enjoying his first ever view of the ocean-March 2012

Birthday parties with great friends


Easter Egg hunts and Easter dresses

Oh girl you look just like your mama once did

Reading books to my now two-year old who will actually sit listen to them-finally! His favorite book right now, 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle.

My daughter is a very picky eater but it has been recently discovered she has a taste for expensive seafood. We noticed this after she tried to eat a whole bowl of crab claws while at a friends birthday party. This explains a lot.

Every time I walk into Cameron's bedroom in the morning and see this sight I want to stop time and freeze the moment forever:

Oh my you two are so cute. Love, Mom

With three kids 6 and under these are the moments that make all the crazy times even more worth it.

I am looking forward to many more 'freezer' moments ahead.

Dena