Weekend Recap

Easter weekend is always a highlight of the year - long weekend, high religious significance, spring weather, and good food - check!

On Friday I went to church for our Good Friday service.

When I got home, E had left to go golfing so Q and I made rice krispie squares and some crafts my mom had sent.

I picked up E from golf and then we enjoyed our annual tradition of fish and chips for Good Friday.  We order them in advance from the golf club, they do a great job, and saves us having to wait in line somewhere.

We watched some Amazing Race and Great British Baking Show before getting to bed.

On Saturday morning I got up for a run, it was lovely weather for it. Dave went out to Home Depot for some lawn suppliers and then got to work spreading grass seed and manure in the backyard.

The local businesses were having an Easter egg hunt so we walked up to do that.  You had to mark off if the store had a bunny or egg statue, and then you also got a chocolate egg.  We also picked up some sandwiches and Booster Juice for lunch, and saw a few friends and neighbours.  And E got a haircut on the way home too.

Showing off the egg collection.

It was Q's first ball hockey game of the season and lucky him, he's on the Leafs again!  After the game, he and Dave threw around the baseball and we ran into a couple of other t-ball families. Can't wait for that season to start in the next couple of weeks.

Dave and I watched the F1 Quali when we got home, and the boys decorated the traditional Easter cake. 

And we finally got the rest of the decorations up. I brought this branch home from my run earlier in the day.

We enjoyed our Easter dinner on Saturday night - ribs, coleslaw, and roasted potatoes.  It was so good!

Easter morning - and the boys were excited to hunt for the eggs left by the Easter Bunny.

Just a couple of treats - Q also got a Mbappe kit (the French footballer, figured we needed it for our trip to Paris instead of Messi!).

And E got golf balls.

Some treats for mom and dad too.

We all went to church to celebrate that He is Risen, Risen Indeed!  And then went over to the golf club for brunch, it was lovely as always.

Donning his new kit.

After watching the F1 race, we dyed our eggs.

In honour of the Leafs first playoff game that night.

These are Q's eggs.

My eggs.

And E's.

Since we had eaten our Easter meal on Saturday and had enjoyed a big brunch, we were able to spend the end of the day outside.  We took our baseball stuff to the field by the river to do some practice.  This is also near where E has hidden a geocache so we checked on it.

We got home in time to get settled in for the Leafs Game 1.  I put together a little charcuterie. 

We were happy to see the Leafs win and were tired and ready for bed after that. 

I hope you enjoyed your long weekend as well. 

Weekend Recap

I hope you had a nice weekend, and if you were celebrating Easter, a Happy Easter! Easter is my favourite holiday, I like it more than Christmas.  It has peak religious significance, the weather is usually starting to warm up, and it requires a lot less preparation and work! 

I arrived home from Lima late on Thursday night (or early Friday morning) so I decided not to attend the Good Friday service at our church.  I did watch on our YouTube channel and enjoyed the music and message.  But it was a nice slow morning, did some colouring (with Q), and watched the curling.   Dave's parents had arrived earlier in the week from being away for the winter.  The kids made the annual Easter cake with them. 

Since E took the photos of the cake, there is a selfie to accompany them!

We had fish and chips for supper.  We ordered take out from the golf club and they were so delicious. 

I picked up a few treats from Peru to bring home.  I went to the grocery store with a colleague who is originally from Peru and now lives in Chile, so she was telling me what the "must haves" were for home.

On Saturday morning I got up to do a workout and then helped Dave make waffles.  Dave's parents left to go home, and I walked up the street with the kids for an Easter scavenger hunt.  Friends of ours joined us up there.  It was a beautiful day.

We had our Easter dinner on Saturday night, we made ribs, coleslaw, and roasted potatoes.  I failed to take a photo of us at the table, so I took one of our leftovers instead!  The ribs were a bit more well done than we like, they were fall of the bone so much that we needed to use a knife and fork to eat them.  But the flavour was so good. 

After dinner we took the remote control car out for a spin.

On Sunday the boys came to wake us up at 7:00, very excited to find the hidden eggs .(Yes, they are both wearing Christmas pjs.)

The Easter Bunny was here!  Although I contributed with a chocolate egg from Peru and a book.

Mom and Dad got some treats too :)

We wisely made extra waffles the day before so it was an easy breakfast on Easter morning.  We ate these while watching Peter Rabbit.

We all went to church and then to the golf club for Easter brunch. 

No pictures of me at the club so I made sure we got one when we got home. 

Some of us had a post-brunch nap and I finished my book.  While I was making a pie Dave took the boys up to the park for some baseball practice.  When the pie was out of the oven I walked up meet them.

Et voila, the pie!

We started the new Hunger Games movie, and when E went to bed, Dave and I finished Fargo.  The kids didn't have any school on Monday but Dave and I were working.  I did take the kids up to the park to play soccer base (or kickball as they like to call it) but mostly they watched Marvel movies and played with toys - the best way to spend a day off.