Hey there! Not a weekly update since we are in quarantine and puzzles/Netflix/working from home gets old. Our Easter weekend was different than we envisioned, but we made the best out of the situation. We decided to stay in Austin due to everything going on and cook our own Easter brunch and had the best time doing it.

We woke up around 6:50 AM so we could catch the sunrise on Lady Bird Lake at 7:03AM. We started this tradition of seeing the sun rise on the morning Jesus rose. We said our prayers and spent some time looking at the sky is awe.

Then we put on our chef hats, with mimosas in hand, and started slaving away at our brunch. We made steak eggs benedict with hollandaise sauce (my personal favorite breakfast meal), cinnamon roll waffles in the shape of Texas (because what other shape would they be?), and seasoned diced potatoes. It was heavenly. It took us 2 hours, one broken glass, and a large mess but it was a good time. Also shoutout to Karen for the Texas waffle maker via Amazon Prime – love you!

Next we started our other tradition of our own Easter egg within the apartment. My family will probably have an Easter egg hunt until my sister & I are 50 so naturally I could not pass up an Easter without it. We bought 12 plastic eggs from Target, divided them by colors, and hid 6 for each other in 10 minutes while the seeker walked Bailey May around the block. Now this is where it got intense. We timed each other, took this very seriously, and hide each egg in the most ridiculous place. Once we found each egg there was a piece of paper with some funny thing we love about each other that had us dying laughing. Highly recommend Easter egg hunts if you and your significant are as competitive as us.

We finished off the day with a feel good Disney movie, Zootopia, and a vegan peanut butter & chocolate pie I whipped up the night before. Here is the recipe!

All in all a good weekend. Even though we wish we were with our families we were thankful for our health, our home, and Jesus’s ultimate sacrifice. Happy Easter!

-oxox Danielle