Egg Crazy

I know, enough with Easter already! But Theo and Adrian were very excited about this one. We have never dyed Easter eggs with the little kids before (you know, because I am a mean mom). We just never got around to it. But this year, we went a little crazy and dyed numerous eggs, numerous colors. Theo was very happy and his favorites were the tie-dyed ones.

We also dyed eggs for Greek Easter, the goal being a deep, red color. I tried the onion skin method and the fabric dye method. The ones dyed with onion skins turned out more brown, but were still pretty and actually edible. While it took a large amount of onions to obtain all the skins (you want the brown skins, not the red onion skins, which dye the eggs a very nice purple), it was fun to use such a "natural" dye.

The onion skin dyed Greek Easter eggs

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Eggs dyed with fabric dye for Greek Easter

Of course we played the egg cracking game. The owner of the uncracked egg is the winner. 

Theo and cousin Megan trying their best to crack each other's egg.

Stelios & Ashley

Adrian successfully cracks Terry's egg! He was very proud.

The last egg standing.
My niece, Sarah, had one very indistructible egg!!

Fourth Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Can this really be our fourth Easter here!? My mom's sister, Jane, has hosted a wonderful Easter egg hunt four years in a row! The kids love the hunt, and it is the highlight of the weekend for them. Thanks Jane!

My mom's sisters who live nearby, Jane & Jenny

Adrian and his cheesy smile

Theo with his cousins

Nora tries to keep up

I can't get enough of Theo's toothless smile.

Happy Easter

Fresh snow on Easter Morning.

I can think of no better way to spend Easter morning than with the amazing messages from LDS General Conference (my favorite messages were those by President Uchtdorf and President Monson). 

Names?!

I get so excited when hearing new babies' names and especially love the stories and thought process behind those names. Out of all the names in the world, parents select that very special one for their precious little baby, and to me this makes that particular name, whatever it is, so wonderful. Even when not pregnant, I read a few name blogs and love to get in on name discussions.

But I CANNOT decide on a first name for our little one. I just keep adding names to an already long and varied list. So I am asking for your suggestions. Due to an intense superstition, I will not name her until she is born, but I would love to hear your ideas. Please?

Some must-haves:

Basically it must be a name traditionally used for girls, not contain creative or phonetic spellings (the child already has to spell out Xanthos for everyone), and sound good when said with Xanthos (you can make some good tongue twisters).

A few other things (but not necessary):

I do gravitate toward names that are considered old fashioned, but I am VERY open!! Nothing too common, but there are many beautiful names used often. I am also interested in "international" names (i.e. Greek, Italian, Hispanic, French, and Scandinavian).