This Kid Is My Hero.

Easter Bunnies

There have been a lot of Easter bunnies hopping about lately. It started with a package from Derick's folks filled with all kinds of yummy chocolate goodies.
I also made Derick a basket with goodies for his road trip with Alan.

I didn't take a photo, but my mom also send us a bunch of Endangered Species chocolate bars!!

Saturday morning, Tara, Charlie, and I made invitations to the hunt.

Then the egg decorating began. . .


When Charlie went to work, Tara and I started making Birds Nest Cookies. We were inspired by Katie's cookies, and so we made the vegan version. Some eggs were made of Jordan Almonds and some had jelly beans!


Early this morning, Tara called to wake me up and offered to help make the rest of the snacks for today. We finished the Mini Tofu Quiches and made a great big fruit salad.


Then it was time for the egg hunt!


It was a lot of fun, and there were only a few casualties. . .

We bake monsters!

So Fresh and So Clean.

I have been making my own shampoo recipe for a while and am trying to avoid products laced with weird chemicals and other additives. So, of course, I had been toying around with the idea of making my own toothpaste as well.

After doing a bunch of research online and reading a number of people's comments and variations of a few toothpaste recipes, I decided to give bonzai aphrodite's recipe a try. It seemed like it was made of the most simple and natural ingredients, and they were all things I already had at home.

So last weekend I whipped up a batch using stevia in place of the xylitol, and including spearmint and eucalyptus oils. Derick and I have been using it for a few days now and are liking it so far.

This little muffin is the sweetness!

Isn't he?

Delicious Dinner Time

So there's no photo of this one, but Derick and I made a yummy pasta dish for dinner on Sunday. We got a huge box of greens from the farmers market and cooked up some kale and beet greens with onions shiitake mushrooms and some Bragg's. We mixed this in with some penne pasta and tomato sauce, then mixed in some Daiya cheese and baked it for about 20 minutes in the oven. It was sooo yummy!