Love Of Oats

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Easter Wishes

I hope you all had a fabulous Easter!  I was overjoyed at the amount of comments I got wishing me a Happy Easter, thank you guys so much ~ I hope you had as great of an Easter as I did!

I started out the morning bright and early with a little Easter surprise for Bill:  Monkey Bread!

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My portion, it was so good!

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Bill’s Easter Basket

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After our yummy breakfast we headed off to church for a great service.  Our pastor reminded us that we don’t have to work our way to God because he died on the cross to come to us as our Savior ~ such a great message.

Lunch was leftover from Saturday night’s dinner, plus an orange!

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Then it was off to my parents house, where we snacked on this…

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Here’s my mom prepping a delicious dinner!

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My Easter dinner plate was loaded:  broccoli casserole, homemade coleslaw, corn, cornbread (my contribution!), ham, sweet potatoes.

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Baked Beans, too!

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Although we were having dessert with Bill’s family, I couldn’t help myself and had a small slice of my grandmom’s cheesecake ~ too yummy to resist…

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My crazy cousin Maureen (I told her I’d call her crazy on the blog!) posing with a box of cannolis that she brought especially for Bill!  He LOVED them and we got to take some home… Thanks again Maureen!!!

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We then left my parents and went over to Bill’s grandparents house where everyone was gathered at.  His grandmom served us a strawberry pie – very yummy!

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All in all it was a fabulous and special day, but as you can guess, I was exhausted last night which is why I’m not posting until today :)   Happy Easter all!

He’s Risen : )

HAPPY EASTER!

For those of you who are Christians, today is the greatest holiday of all for us, what an amazing day!  I love the Easter because it represents everything that we believe:  Jesus died and rose for us all :)   For that reason, I hope you and your family and friends have a very blessed Easter and that the true meaning of today does not get lost (as it did for me many times before).

As promised, here are a few beauty shots of the eggs that Bill and I dyed last night… I think they are my best batch to date :)   I’ll post more pictures as I eat em ;)

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I’ll be back with the food details later but wanted to wish you all a great day before we head to Church!