12M ~ April 2022

Happy Easter! 🐰🐣 We had a quick brunch with the family before heading to Boston. 

And we're off! Boston or Bust! If you want to follow Charlie his bib# is 4911. 🏃

He got his bib and now we're getting carbs at @eatalyboston!

12M ~ April 2019

Happy Easter!  The boys loved their new goodies and we had a great time hanging with family today!

Happy Easter!

I love our blended family holidays!

My whole heart!

12M ~ April 2019

Birthday party fun with his friend!

David's made the paper for his teams before, but this was the frist time he's made it because of his awesome defense!

The Easter Bunny has left the building! He brought some new pool floats and toys, new slides and candy, of course! Looking forward to celebrating with the family tomorrow! 🍬🍭🐰

Happy Easter!

Easter felt a little more like Winter this year than Spring but we still had a great day celebrating with our family!  As we do every year, the boys spent some time the night before decorating some eggs.  We decided to keep it very simple and stick with the cheap dye tablets, but they still had fun!

Keeping things simple

Ready to dye some eggs!

Old school wax crayon decorating

The boys woke up and saw their Easter treats!  We love that the Easter Bunny thinks of mom and dad too and brings us a dark chocolate bunny and some truffles!

Charlie had to work for the morning so he was off and I left to start prep on all the yummy food.  I got the big ham in the oven and then started working on some housekeeping before our family arrived!  We had lots of yummy appetizers, Easter mojitos (made with marshmallow vodka and lemonade!), two kinds of ham (baked and spiral), a leg of lamb, spring peas in a bacon cream sauce, candied yams and mashed potatoes!  Everything was delicious per usual!

My sisters Easter Bunny bread bowl!

Baked Ham

Spiral Ham

This years Easter Carver

My favorite sous chef!

After our delicious meal, it was time for the annual egg hunt.  Unfortuantely because it was so wet out in the yard (and there was still quite a bit of snow!) we had to have the egg hunt indoors this year.

Ready to find some eggs!

And no family event is complete without a family picture!

Happy Easter!

Or dessert!

Butterfly cupcakes by my cousin Jodi!

Coconut Bird Nests (that I coat in dark chocolate!)

Carrot Cake

Easter Weekend Festivities!

Easter was late this year, but it was still a little chilly for late April.  I'm just happy that all the snow had melted.  We started our Easter celebrations on Saturday with two Egg Hunts.  The first one was sponsored by the city at our local park and the second one was put on by one of the neighborhood families!  Both were fun and the boys got way more candy than any one person needs to have.

Merrill Park Easter Egg Hunt

Evan is ready to get some eggs at the neighbors house!

Shaun found one!

David making one last check to make sure all the eggs were found.

After the egg hunts we did the traditional coloring of eggs.  I don't think I will be letting the boys choose the method next year.  We were not big fans of this system, and they got bored quickly since they could only do one at a time.

The Easter Bunny arrived and even left a basket for Mom and Dad!

On Easter morning the boys were gracious enough to sleep until 6:45am and waited until 7am before begging us to go down and see what the Bunny brought!

Candy, Books and Baseball stuff!

After baskets it was time to get ready for all our guests; we were going to have a full house!  On the menu was leg of lamb, two kinds of ham, spring peas with bacon, mashed potatoes, candied yams, rice pilaf and the green beans in a can for my mom and brother.

Dad carving the ham!

Mom mashing the potatoes

The feast!

I always love seeing people enjoying my food!

Especially the kids!

After our meal, we sent the kids down to the cul-du-sac so we could hide all the eggs.  This is our 3rd Easter, so they know the drill - no eggs until they all smile nice for a picture!

Ready to find some eggs!

And no event at my house is complete without a group shot!

And family portraits!

This was a remake of an old Easter Classic