For as long as I can remember one of the traditions at Easter in the Keller house was coloring eggs. We took egg coloring very serious. My mom would cook enough eggs for us each to have four eggs, which would total 40 eggs. Can you imagine? That is a lot of eggs. It was funny because when Jon and I were talking about coloring eggs and having traditions in our house I told him we should do 40 eggs and he about had a heart attack. I guess his family only did 12 eggs. So when we got our eggs we would spend hours making the perfect patterns on our eggs. Every year our techniques would become more and more extravagent and detailed.
Jon got a regular egg (not hard boiled) to stand up by itself. He was so proud of himself.
Trying to put a whole egg in his mouth. Shell and all!
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Looks like a lot of fun. My favorite pic is of Jon eating the whole egg...you are a goof troop!
Yeah!!!!!!! The tradition lives on!! I forced my friends to participate in the tradition this year. I think they thought i was crazy when i brought out the q-tips, tape, string, crayons, paint brushes, and the nail file. Your eggs are pretty amazing, but still not as cool as mine! don't worry i'll post a picture on face book so you can see that I'm right!
Nice eggs. Mine never won any of the competitions. For some reason, my artistic inclinations never carries over into egg art. And now my husband, who's new to decorating Easter eggs, is better than me. I can't wait to see Penny painting eggs. Maybe next year she'll be old enough to actually enjoy it.
Cute pictures.
Rebecca, Don't let Jonathan fool you--the only time the Monson house hold has ever dyed under two dozen or more eggs was when Jonathan and David couldn't see the value in dyeing more eggs then needed for our easter egg hunt. You see we stopped hiding real eggs during our easter egg hunts and replaced the egg hunt with plastic eggs filled with money in order to motivate Jonathan and David to still hunt for the eggs...so if there wasn't a use for the decorated eggs, they didn't see the reason to decorate so many eggs and have them go to waste---those two are always a thinken!
Your eggs look wonderful!! Fun times!!! Makes me hungry for some good old deviled eggs or at least an egg salad sandwich!!! yummmmmmm!
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