Spent yesterday afternoon baking a modified recipe of these amazing little guys for Imago Dei (which was a huge success). They were super tasty and a major hit at the event!

Now today its off to Redlands to shoot a wedding with the amazing Brad Claypool!  Happy Saturday everyone!

I’m in the middle of making these yummys Easter style.  Nolan and I made them once and they were amazing!  I’m using white chocolate and dying them Easter colors.  We’re getting together with some fam tomorrow to feast and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus!  I’m stoked.

I love Easter- I think it may be one of my favorite holidays, even though I tend to say that about every holiday when they come around!  I love the colors, the chocolate, the happiness and the egg hunts.  

But truly, without Easter, my life would not have a purpose.

I have this joy and peace in my heart and soul because of this day.  Because of His love for me.  I can’t help but smile and tear up at the same time when I remember and reflect on the purpose of Easter and the significant shift in the universe that happened this day.  Too often I forget and get caught up in my own life.  My own agenda and selfish desires become my world.  I forget that there are 6.2 billion (or whatever we are up to now) other people living at this very moment and they are struggling.  Suffering.  And I’m not JUST talking about the starving children in Africa or the people struggling in Haiti right now.  I’m talking about my neighbors next door.  I’m talking about the person I serve coffee to in the mornings.  The person driving in the car next to you.  We are all so close, yet so disconnected.  Sometimes I feel the want and need to go away to a foreign land to lend a helping hand- but why do I have to go so far?  There are people all around me who are in need of a helping hand.   Although we have our homes and food here-we are all going through some sort of battle in one way or another.

So with all of that being said- I’m so thankful for Easter.  It is a reflection time.  A celebration time.  And it is reminding me to serve.  Get out of my own life and help a friend in need.  Because sometimes stepping outside of ourselves is more of a medicine for us than it is anyone else.

So thanks for listening to my cooking/ life reflection.  Happy early Easter!!