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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Easter Festivities

We had a fun and busy Easter weekend...leading up to the weekend was an Easter Egg Hunt at the Marine Barracks DC. Our friends Paul and Sonja are the Commanding Officer and his wife, and they managed to commandeer the parade grounds for a great place to do the hunting. We enjoyed brunch and lots of visiting before we released the dogs to go out and find the gazillion hidden treasures all over the lawn. It was a lovely spring day with everything that blooms looking at its peak, and it was (as always) great to spend time with friends now that we have a slew of kiddos running around together. (Pictures coming)

Then on Easter weekend, Sam and the boys did some egg coloring over with our close neighbor friends here, Amanda, Liam and baby Reese. The boys seemed to like the egg coloring (video below) but I hear it was really Sam who got into it the most!

On Sunday the Easter Bunny came and hid the eggs in our yard which was a fun way for Arlo to wake up and get to work. He found them all and then got to check out his Easter basket and do some sampling. After that, we put on our [homemade!] hats and went to our neighbors, Tim and Sean's, for a "bonnet brunch" which consisted of lots of fabulous hats AND a fantastic and elaborate spread of food and mimosas of all kinds. Yum. Since it's just a few houses up, no worries about who had to drive home after a bit of champagne! And we got to meet and get to know a lot of our neighbors who were also at the party. Here's a few pictures from that event.

Lastly, we had another invitation (can I just say how wonderful it was to not have to cook all weekend - thanks to everyone who fed us!) to Mike and Margarita's house for supper with Mike's folks, who were in town visiting. We enjoyed a delicious meal and lots of nice visiting with them - their other son, Alex, has two kiddos who were born within weeks of our own kids so they are pretty good at holding babies and hanging out with toddlers.

It was a great and busy time and DC is certainly in full-on spring mode, so it's been beautiful too.




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