April 27th

So this is Grace Egan Hutton! She is my friend Laurens baby and she has finally made her big debut into the world! Hurray! Lauren has informed me that Egan is a family name but also means 'fiery one' which she said was appropriate because little Grace gave her so much heartburn. They decided to wait and find out the whether baby precious cargo would be a boy or girl so I had to buy all unisex stuff for shower presents but the Huttons better watch out because I really know how to do pink and sparkly wayyyy better than yellow and sexually ambiguous :)

Congrats you two I am so happy for you and cannot wait to meet Princess Grace!

April 26th

Thanks for all your concern guys but we have not blown away yet. Our basement however is very wet and gross indeed. Gus has been waging a war with our sump (?) pump but so far it is to little avail because it won't friggin stop raining no matter how whiny or pouty I am. Stupid rain. I need it to stop asap because I am super tired of being damp and having to share a bathroom with Hermie again. Boys are super gross. Anyway if you want to see our riveting newscast from my county it can be viewed here.....

http://www.thesouthern.com/app/videos/#vmix_media_id=84289871

April 25th

Mumsy requested that I post pictures of the bunny cakes.

These are funfetti cupcake style cakes with cream cheese and regular frosting

decorated with glitter gels, sprinkles, m&ms, skittles and mini Cadbury eggs

nom.nom.nom

April 24th

Now THAT is a bomb ass table setting if I do say so myself :)

Carlos from HOP! Which I hope you have all seen he is so cute and funny looking. I put a Carlos lollipop in our Easter basket that we exchanged. Loooove his face!

Our lovely 10 pound Smithfield ham which came out perfectly... and to think I was so worried about making it!

Everyone opening their Easter baskets!

All the lovely Easter ladies.

My gorgeous table setting with seating for 10... take that formal dining rooms! ha!

April 23rd

Easter egg dyeing time!!! I went a little crazy we wound up coloring almost 36 eggs yikes! Totally fun though, I forgot how fun it was to write silly things on the eggs....

He made lots of Jesus eggs, don't worry ;)

My first succesful batch of bunny cakes, made with funfetti and love a Greene tradition continues!

Super fun egg coloring party!

April 22

Good Friday is upon us and thus my preparations for Easter weekend kick into full gear. Last year I spent my Easter sobbing at a very nice brunch because I missed being at home so much. This year in order to fight off the homesickness I have been proactive and planned my own Easter events.

Tomorrow we will be decorating bunny cakes (a Greene family tradition) and dying Easter eggs and then on Sunday I will be hosting my first Easter dinner. I even got a Smithfield ham and everything so I could rep my VA roots. With a little luck nothing will go terribly awry and if I does we have also stocked up on lots of wine.

So now I shall spend the day cleaning and puttering and preparing and hopefully everything will be lovely. Wish me luck!

April 21st

Dontcha just love this pic. This is my oldest friend (literally like since kindergarten) and I on one of her birthday trips to DC. Why would I post such an embarrassing picture of myself for you all to see? Well its kind of as a tribute to an ohmyhowfarwehavecome moment.

See Dani blogs as well here - http://martinisandmakeup.blogspot.com/
and it is super great, and I am not just saying that because I love her madly which I do :)
She now lives in DC and has a fabulous and glamorous life that the rest of us aspire to but she is always willing to share her tips and tricks. Some of my happiest memories are of playing dress up with Dani and now we get to do it as grownups with checking accounts and cosmopolitans, fabulous!

Anyways you should check out her blog because it and she are awesome. True story.