I based this desert recipe off the  Classic  English Triffle desert I tried at the Rose & Crown in EPCOT at Walt Disney World.

Michele’s Triffle

1 yellow cake (you could use vanilla or any other cake you like) prepared according to package directions and cooled and cut into cubes.

2 large packages of instant vanilla pudding

5 cups 1/2 and 1/2

1 container frozen strawberries in juice. (they sell them in most grocery stores and they usually come in a cup with a lid)

1 container cool whip

Prepare the pudding with 5 cups of half and half. It will be a little thicker than pudding usually is.

In a large clear glass bowl ( I use a punch bowl) Pour a layer of berries. Cover completely with a layer of cake following with a layer of pudding. Alternate layers until bowl is full. Top with cool whip. Refrigerate overnight and serve cold.

I have also done this with chocolate cake and pudding and used raspberries as the fruit. YUMMY

My Aunt Cindy is famous for this great simple spring-y recipe. Its so easy, but it tastes so good.

7 Layer Salad

1 head of iceburg lettuce sliced thinly

2 cups frozen green peas thawed

2 cups finely shredded cheddar cheese

2 cups celery diced.

1 lb bacon fried crisp and crumbled

2 cups miracle whip

1 cup grated parmessan cheese

In a glass bowl layer the ingredients

lettuce

peas

cheese

celery

bacon

miracle whip

parmessan cheese

Refregerate overnight and serve cold.

We had such a wonderful Easter sunday today. It started pretty early as I really needed to be in choir practice today. I have missed a LOT of practices because of my pnemonia last month. It has taken my lungs a really long time to heal. Also if I get hot at all I start to cough and let me tell you.. that choir loft gets SO hot under the television lights and since our congregation has grown so much we dont move to the pews when preaching starts. A coughing fit on local tv doesnt sound like to much fun to me so I have been sitting out.. I am better now though, SO I had to be at church by 9am.

Turns out it didnt matter since Thing Two had us up pretty early to investigate what the Easter bunny left her. So we got up and got ready and took some pictures in the yard in all of our Easter finery.

I was pretty excited about my dress.. my sister gave it to me over a year ago, and it didnt fit. Yesterday when I was looking for something springy to wear today I remembered those clothes she had given me.. so on a whim I tried it on.. and it fit! Yahoo!

My girls looked so pretty. Last night I straightened Thing One’s hair (it took about an hour) and she wore a top I picked up at Cato. Last year I bought Thing One two dresses and this one was a little big.. this year it fit really well. I picked up her cute hat at the Dollar Tree! LOVED that deal.

Church was PACKED. It was really crowded. The choir music went really well and we were done by 12. After church we grabbed a quick lunch at our favorite mexican place and then came home to change. I had cute plaid shorts for all of us to wear. It looked so cute with all of us in our plaid stuff.

While we were outside we taught the kids to do the “bunny hop” and they did these relay races doing it. It was so stinking funny. Thing One, I think felt a little silly doing it, but the harder we laughed, the sillier they got.

After the kids were done hunting eggs and playing in the yard we went in and I made deviled eggs out of the eggs and helped get dinner ready.

We had a YUMMY dinner. My Mom made Ham and sweet potatoes, asparagus, rice, and field peas and snaps. I made a 7 layer salad and the deviled eggs. For desert I made a strawberry triffle. We were SO full. After dinner we all napped and layed around. Then we watched some movie with that guy from Home Improvement in it. Galaxy something? It was actually pretty funny. I love when my Daddy gets tickled watching a movie. He has such a great laugh.

Thing One made me so sad all day.. she expected her Mom to call..( it IS a holiday after all AND she hasnt seen her in almost 2 months) and she never did. Every time the phone would ring she would jump..and she kept looking at my cell phone. When we got home this evening there was a message on our machine… but it was one of my nieces. I thought she might cry when it wasnt her Mom. Makes me so stinkin’ mad.

But that aside, it was such an amazing day. I posted a lot more pictures on flickr.com if you want to go look at them!