Snippets of My World: Easter Weekend and Breakfast

We had such a wonderful Easter this past weekend! Both Jordan and I had off of work on Friday, one of the great perks of working for a Christian non-profit ministry. Friday and Saturday Jordan went snowboarding with his brother so I hung out with my sister, her husband, niece, and nephew on Friday. We had so much fun! We went up to the Children's Museum up in Denver and boy is that place amazing! I can just imagine being a kid playing there, probably because I enjoyed so much as an adult! :) I pretty much spent our time there running after Miss Hope, my niece, which was very entertaining!

Later that night I got to hang out with a wonderful friend of mine, Kristin. I really don't like staying by myself when Jordan is not there, so Kristin humored me and spent the night with me. It was so much fun! We just hung out, watched a movie, looked at her Julia Child cookbook(which my mom got me for my birthday and I can't wait till it comes! It's amazing!!) and chatted. I absolutely love getting to have some quality girl time!

The next day was baking galore day! I had to make some stuff to take to an Easter lunch that we went to on Sunday and our dear friends', Charlie and Shelby, house. These are some of the outcomes that came from this day.

This is the pound cake I made which I used for this strawberry shortcake dessert that I made. I forgot to take a picture of the actual finished strawberry shortcake dessert but you can find it here. Let me just say that this dessert is AMAZING!!!! Everyone loved it so much that there was none left at the end of the day. If your looking for a quick and wonderful dessert, you must try this! There really are no words for how delicious this dessert is! So, I used the pound cake in the recipe in replace of angel food cake because I just like it better! This pound cake is also delicious just by itself.

This was the quiche I made. I made a basic pie crust for this dish, but you could always use a premade pie crust as well. I grind my own flour and the flour that I used for this was the soft white wheat. It makes this the most flaky and wonderful crust! Then I really just threw stuff in the quiche, no real recipe. I used crispy turkey bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, caramelized about 5 shallots and half a small yellow onion, spinach, and then sprinkled the top with Swiss cheese. For the egg part I broke 5 eggs into a 4 cup holder and whisked those together and then added milk till it got to the 2 cup line (This is a trick I got from my friend Kristin the night before)and poured that over all the other ingredients. Then I baked it at 350 for about 40 minutes. It turned out pretty darn good if you ask me!

Our Easter service at church was amazing! We are so blessed to go to such a wonderful church and have such an amazing pastor! The Easter message is really what it is all about. Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christianity would be like every other religion. Praise the Lord that it is not!! My God is a living God and reigns in Heaven, and because of that I am able to be His daughter! There really isn't anything better!

These next two picture are what I made Jordan and I for breakfast this morning with the leftover ingredients I had from the quiche.

I just used 2 eggs for this omelet and added turkey bacon, tomatoes, spinach, and Swiss and Parmesan cheese! Great way to use up the rest of the leftovers I had in the frig. Jordan loved it!