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Family Time: Easter Eggs

My mama is the oldest of 6 sisters, so every holiday there is always something going on and we have made some very fun traditions!

Around Easter time there is one tradition I just LOVE!! Dinner and coloring Easter Eggs. The night we dye eggs we also have a strange meal. I've always thought it to be weird, but this year with a couple new friends joining in on the fun I was reminded how weird it is: Mashed Potatoes and Chicken Noodle Soup. Yeah the combo is weird and even weirder is that my family puts the soup over the potatoes. I have never liked the soup but everyone else LOVES it! Christian even requests this meal other days of the meal. I guess my mom's grandma used to do it for them so it just continued as a tradition when my mom and her sisters had kids.  

On top of our weird meal we color eggs. And when I say eggs, we usually have at least 16 DOZEN to do-- what can I say? Our family is huge!! We have to take shifts. 




Typically we use Paws brand dye but this year my mama also used just a homemade dye this year, and everyone perfered those colors over the name brand dyes. 

Check out my blog here to find out how we did it.


Every year we also put our names on an egg. FAMILY TRADITIONS RIGHT? I also ALWAYS make a Utah State egg every year because I love Utah State and it makes me happy. Christian had to work so he couldn't do eggs with me but I made some for him. Instead of our names this year I decided to go along with the song Don't Stop Believin'  by Journey, because how fitting is that? I love our eggs this year. How stinking cute?


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