easy peasy glazed ham for two...

we had our easter meal later since we were dinner guests on easter, 

but last week, we had our own special meal and it was surprisingly way easy!

we made this yummy glazed ham and had grilled asparagus too. yumtown.

1-ish cup - light corn syrup

1/2-ish cup - light brown sugar

1tsp - ground mustard (some used prepared mustard, but we wanted the burnt flava flave.

1/2 tsp - ground ginger (though the real stuff would have worked great!)

a few shakes - ground cloves (to give it that nice christmasy feel)

i don't really measure, so this is just a guess.

we used a small, pre-cooked but uncut ham that we found for pretty cheap. i remade the glaze a few times and added the ham juice...

it was naughty.

easter recipies

so i know there are only two of us, 

 but we always look for excuses to eat good grub.

here is what i want to be making for our easter "feast"

{along with a ham-product of course...}

i want to be making these cute rice krispy eggos:

ya know... on the commercial...

i watched sunny anderson make this the other day 

and decided it is so beautiful and needs to be on my easter table-- stat. 

chello? it's purple, potatoey, and easy. 

done and done.

unfortunately, there wasn't a picture of the one she made though...

i thought asparagus would be nice too- being that its green and all... 

and we all need more veggies in our life.  

this recipe looks absolutely naughty, and also easy.

yay for grilled asparagus!

and if i get really ambitious, 

i might even make my own yumtown dinner rolls.

they are award winning, if you must know...

wish me luck!

what are you making??

getting into the Spirit - Easter style...

found this little gem and it me me smile {slash} tear.

i had almost forgotten why this fun holiday exists.

then i was making this {not so} little print at my mother's request and it took on new life.

i love having a way to create really cheap decor to put up in my little temporary home.

and i love when it is bright and sunshiny too.

downloadable 16x20 print

easter bunnies

dear easter bunny,

i am still thinking about how you came last week,
and how magical easter was for some reason this year.

now in my top three holidays i think.

why?
because we are with family,
we still eat,
have some fun gimmicky thing with eggs,
and we get together
because of the savior.

i loved every minute of this beautiful day
and soaked in every word of truth that was spoken.

thanks for making this a memorable one for me.

elle loved easter so much she wanted to eat it.

then she was ticked when she realized we were going to eat chicken.
cooked.

kenna enjoyed the vitamin D...

and so did the grown ups...
[please excuse mr. waldo/30 rock's kenneth as he gleefully skips about the yard]

(after successfully locating 3 eggs...)
"but i jus wanta canny"

[note the 3 classes of egg-hunters in our midst...]

the easter bunny did something fun for the adults that might need to be a tradition...[cough]
he left notes with clues on them of where to find a larger wrapped gift in the house somewhere.
rob found his happy thought.

and then,

we played away the day...

i thought this turned out kinda cool:

a beautiful shot of g-ma:

theme of the day:

ooh... who's that?

cc just mentioned that we will be needing large, large large hard-drives when we have kids.
i take so many of my [not] kids already...

thanks everyone for the beautiful days of fun.
the Lord is good to me.
i am so glad to know that He lives and loves me.
my family is proof of that.

go green

easter. brought to you by the color:
green.

39.5?... 39.5...

and by the way babe,
3 hours of church/teaching 7 year olds/
nappin/eating 2 easter feasts...

is pretty much the best with you here...

oh- we are still collecting addresses...
if you want in on the partay that's going down on may 23rd,
and you don't think i've got you, email me!
meg.moffat@gmail.com

keep it positive...

My brother says that sometimes blogs are a mis-representation of how our lives are because we only dwell on the positive things. i am sometimes a negative person, but it is just hard to be this week!

i guess i am just grateful at the moment— maybe its because of:

Easter
green + pink= awesome














sugar cookies/experimenting with baking goods
matching dresses on little girls
the Savior
the atonement
music
inspiring words
bishops
crepes (pink & green)
cute roommates
sam's club
pita chips
wedges of cheese
moms
hulu.com
lil singing asians
singing americans
shows about pee...;)
great friends
blessings
prayer
the sun

the sun, i have decided, is like a big brother. a big, older brother. like the ones that know you are 7 and ask, "how old are you?" i am 7, "oh, well you have to be 8 to play..." that kind of brother.

after a few months of dark and cold and snowy ickyness that is everything that AZ isn't, the sun decides to pay a visit. usually he only stays a while as a teaser... then it snows a bit more like he's laughing at the little toy carrot he just dangled... and then after his mother makes him because of the official season change, he just stays.

in utah, i am never happier than when that day finally comes. i can distinctly remember the day last year that i felt like i could lay out on the grass in my flowy white skirt and just take in the vitamin D and listen to "Then I did" (Rascal Flatts) on my green ipod. this year i think that day was yesterday. i was listening to something peaceful like "Magic" by Colbie Caillat maybe and feeling the afternoon cook me at an almost unnoticeable rate. i thought about easter and how the sun eventually comes back out and touches everything. happy things.

speaking of happy things:


this thursday is Urinetown. a show i directed... yeah, its kind of a big deal. did i just recast my narrator a week ago? yes. am i stressed? no. are the parentals and brothers coming because they rock? uh, yeah. and rock, it shall.