my heart will go on

everyone has been posting the cutest Easter weekend pics but sadly, you won't find any of those here.

apparently Matt and i are losers this year and didn't even make baskets for each other or color eggs or anything.

that is so unlike me since i LOVE going crazy for every holiday.

if you wish to see proof that sometimes we're not totally grinchy about Easter check out our funny eggs and rice krispy bunnies!

at least Matt and i did have an awesome date on saturday.

we went to see Titanic!

but not in 3D, no no that makes me dizzy and sick and i like to enjoy going to the movies so we saw it in 2D.

now before you go judging me and saying things like "why would you see it in 2D when you could just sit at home and watch it??"

well my friends, i hate to admit this but, Matt and i had never actually seen Titanic from start to finish before.

i know, where the heck have we been right?

and i am sooo glad i saw it for the first time in the theaters so it was all big and amazing!

and guys, i totally love this movie.

that sounds super girly and stupid but I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

Titanic is one of those stories that really interests me and also scares the H-E- double hockey sticks out of me!

and i was totally reminded of how much i love young Leonardo DiCaprio!

he's so stinking cute! 

and even though the movie is freaking long, i didn't notice at all because i was so in love with Leo, i mean the story.

that James Cameron sure can tell a good story.

only downside to seeing this movie, you'll have Celine Dion stuck in your head for days and days and days and days.

oh and something very interesting i found out when we saw this movie, apparently i look less than 13 years old.

Matt was buying the tickets and the ticket girl asked how old i was to make sure i was allowed to see the movie.

seriously?? 

i mean, i've been told i have a baby face and i look younger than i am but 10 years younger?!

crazy.

also...here's a picture with me and my boyfriend Jeremy Renner. 

enjoy.

best easter treat in the world

we finished another easter treat creation and this one is super duper tasty!

i actually saw this idea on a commercial and told matt that we must do it!

first you make rice krispy treats.

when they are finished you lay them out on a pan to let them harden up so they're really really sticky.

then you start shaping.

first you make an easter bunny, of course!

body...

head...

tail...

ears...

so cute!!

then i put matt to work making another one.

then we had two bunnies so they can be friends and kiss and stuff! aww!

now you're going to turn the rest of the rice krispy treats into eggs.

when those are all shaped you start melting the chocolate.

we used hershey chocolate bars and set the stove on really really low so it wouldn't burn the chocolate before it melted it.

while that is melting you get a bowl and pour a bunch of sprinkles into it and put it aside for a minute.

when the chocolate is all melted you now get to do the fun part.

take a rice krispy treat egg and dip it in!

then immediately dip it into the sprinkles bowl!

now set the eggs aside to cool off.

we put them upside down in a mini muffin tin and that worked perfectly.

then you repeat the dipping process until you're all out of eggs!

so fun!

if you run out of sprinkles (like we did) just make chocolate eggs.

still just as delicious!

best easter treat ever created!

thanks rice krispies commercial!

unique easter fun!

matt and i aren't like normal people.

we don't do the traditional things that you're supposed to do around holidays.

easter is a perfect example.

for some reason matt hates coloring eggs for easter.

this will be our 4th easter together and i think i only talked him into coloring eggs with me once and even then he pouted the whole time.

this year i wasn't even going to bother him with it when he told me he wanted to do eggs.

i couldn't believe it!

then he told me he didn't want to color them, he wanted to turn them into little chicks.

yeah i thought it sounded weird too but then he showed me what he meant and i loved the idea!

here's what we did...

first you look up how to perfectly hard boil an egg. we went with this website and it worked wonderfully!

you start out by keeping the eggs at room temp for a while and then you put the eggs in a pan (or pot) and add enough cold water to just cover the eggs.

you cook them on high like that until it starts to boil

when it's boiling you move the pan off the heat and cover it. you leave it like that for 17 minutes.

after 17 minutes you immediately take the eggs out and put them in a bowl of freezing cold water (you can even add ice cubes to it) then you put the bowl in the fridge for 10 minutes.

after those 10 minutes the eggs are complete and you can taste one to make sure that it is perfection!

ours were!

now comes the fun part!

matt found a website that showed him how to do this.

they do it a whole lot better than we did but oh well!

first you start out by peeling a few eggs.

make sure you remember which eggs in the fridge are the hard boiled ones or you'll end up like matt with yolk all over your hand!

after you peel a couple eggs you're going to cut a little zigzag pattern along the white part, try not to go too deep because you don't want to hit the yolk.

then you slowly pull off the top so that one side of the white egg part comes off all nicely.

then you're going to cut up a thin slice of tomato (or red pepper) and give it a scalloped edge.

you're also going to cut up some little carrot slices that look like half moons.

at this point you're supposed to also cut up some olives into little tiny dots but we didn't have olives so we used sprinkles instead.

now some of your eggs are zigzagged and one is peeled and left alone.

now you start putting all the pieces together!

carrots are for beaks, sprinkles (or olives) are for eyes and the tomato slice (or red pepper) is for the mama's comb thingy on her head.

and when you're all done you end up with an adorable little hard boiled egg chicken family!

now tell me this isn't way better than coloring eggs!

if you want to see the original website that taught us how to do this go here!

they did a much better job than we did!

we're going to dare another easter treat creation tonight and it's going to be so much more chocolatey!