We got up at the usual time (crack of dawn) and Declan opened his Easter basket. The Easter Bunny had left Declan's Easter basket on the dining room table and Brendan's basket was on his high chair tray, both were cleverly out of the reach of our food-obsessed basset hounds. Declan's basket had lots of Star Wars toys (of course), a few jelly beans, a chocolate rabbit and lots of pink peeps! (to date, he has had only the ONE peep - that one was eagerly devoured within minutes of its identification). Brendan's basket had some toys - Fisher Price Little People, one Matchbox car, a book and two light-up rubber duckies.
We had breakfast and got ready for church at the Cathedral. We like to go to the Cathedral downtown for Christmas and Easter because it is beautiful and the Archbishop says Mass and also, it is less crowded. (Sad, but true. The Cathedral is in downtown Detroit and the parish is quite small. It is not in a very nice neighborhood, to say the least. Such a shame, because it is a GORGEOUS church and the parishioners are delightful). Mass started at eleven and lasted until close to one. It was a beautiful service with lots of music and chanting, but it was all a bit much for poor Brendan. (Who, BTW, does NOT like incense at ALL!). We hurried home to put him down for his nap and tried to keep Declan busy before we allowed him to go in the yard for the Easter Egg hunt. After lunch and Brendan's nap - we did the Egg hunt in the garden. It was fun - the Easter Bunny had hidden 11 eggs in the garden and 10 eggs in the house. Declan found them all within ten minutes. (Note to Easter Bunny for next year - hide more eggs and make it a LITTLE more challenging.) Then we hurried to get ready to go to my mom's for Easter dinner. I made deviled eggs and then we drove the 45 minutes to my mom's house. My mom, dad, two sisters, two of three nieces (with one husband in tow), one brother-in-law, one aunt, two uncles, four cousins, (two dogs) and the four of US all sat down together for a beautiful ham and turkey dinner with all the trimmings. My two brothers were a no-show (again) and that made my mom sad, but otherwise, it was a really lovely afternoon/evening.
Brendan at the end of the day, getting changed into jammies for the drive home
Declan, all pink-cheeked, playing hard with his cousins
Declan, Brendan and Ashley, all smiles when we first arrived...
Our little fam in front of the daffodils (which have since exploded) in our garden
The boys' matching sweaters - Declan could NOT sit still!
Brendan discovered an egg on the play structure (with a little help from his daddy)
Declan crawling toward his Easter basket
Declan (still in PJs), shows of his new Star Wars action figure - Ayla Secura
Pink peeps (sans one)
The Easter Basket dance of joy. (it is still dark outside at this point)
2 comments:
first the photos... the one of the boys with ashley i love... dana brought her 2 older boys yesterday while they house hunted and they came all fancied up ... i would have loved to have dressed boys... and the photo of the peeps with one missing is priceless, i will be back... katherine needs my computer to blogt... you shold viist her blog and comment sometimes... she is fun to read...
i am finally back, i will blog later today about my web absence... but i did want to finish here.Easter basket dance of joy... the title and the photo are so stinkin' cute... i love the photo of the 2 boys with declan's head missing... first it is brendan's world view and 2nd it shows an older brother on the move.. this was a super post...
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