Easter 2011

Here is a quick post with lots of photos from Easter weekend. The boys and I were happy to have John home from his California adventure so that we could all enjoy an extra long weekend together.

The weather was beautiful on Good Friday so we strolled through the Byward Market and picked up some fixings for an al fresco picnic. Then, we headed home to play and do some gardening work outside.

On Saturday, we hosted our friend Jen’s family from New York City and Halifax for a bagel brunch. Serving Montreal bagels to New Yorkers was great and all agreed that the Montreal version is much, much better. Here is a photo of the gang:


On Sunday morning, we took the boys to the Agricultural Museum at the Experimental Farm for the Easter festivities there. Max had a blast collecting plastic eggs around the barns and trading them in for chocolate treats. We didn’t see the baby bunnies or the lambs but the fluffy chicks and new calves were super cute.





In the afternoon, we headed over to Nana and Auntie Karen’s for the big egg hunt and family dinner. Both the boys enjoyed the egg hunt. Leo caught on pretty fast! He was running over to me with foil-wrapped chocolate treats and saying “Leo! Leo!” His little face is pretty hard to resist these days so he had a belly full of chocolate in short order.




We also posed for some family photos. Thanks to Auntie Laramie for the boys’ new holiday shirts:




I had to include this particular picture because I think it captures the exact moment before Max wiped his booger in Leo's hair in a nonchalant way. Laramie and I both caught it and burst out laughing. Not the most appropriate response but we couldn't help it.

Max likes to gesticulate with his hands when he talks and John caught this great series of photos as Max was recounting a story to Auntie Karen on the back deck:




On Easter Monday morning, Leo and John went to gymnastics and Max and I headed off to IKEA. The ball room was a mob scene so we had a blast playing house in the various furniture set-ups and eating meatballs in the restaurant while watching an animated movie. We had a bit of a lengthy adventure getting home because all of the buses were on holiday schedule but they are building a gigantic new IKEA so Max saw at least a dozen cement mixers up close and all but one waved or honked their horns at us. It was nice to have some time just the two of us.

All in all, a stellar weekend full of good food and time with family and friends