Easter brunch!

Emily had a brunch at her house today, southern-style.  All of the other girls put on dresses and looked fabulous, except me.  Bah.  Fortunately Bjorn and Lisa showed up in their best casual attire, and the Phil showed up in his Easter sweats.

The food was excellent! Cheese grits, brown sugar cupcakes in a ham wrapper with candied pineapple (yep, you read that right), french toast casserole, a bacon log (see photo below), fruit salad, biscuits with sausage gravy...and I made some puff pastry squares with pastry cream and sliced strawberries.  Mimosas were served, of course.

After brunch we had an Easter egg hunt, and I found the one that looked like a rock.  Matt said "It's almost like you spend all day every day looking at rocks."

Ok, here are the pics.  And by the way, Kevin helped me figure out why my photos indoors are always so yellow, so half of the pictures are yellow and half are "auto-white-balance."

Notice that the cupcakes are not in paper wrappers...they are in MEAT wrappers!

Ooooh...not a good shot.

That's better.

"She's not fat, she's just big-boned!" -Emily

Barefoot in the kitchen.  Just like a proper Southern Lady.  Not preggers though.

Bacon log. I had a bite. It was salty.

James looking dapper

My strawberry pastry squares

Marit in a pretty dress; Bjorn in a sweatshirt.

I found an egg!