black and white Wednesday - baskets, bunnies and brunch

Well, this year Easter started for all of us bright and early...

 thanks to Grace who got up 3 times

before 6 AM.

 She was just checking to see if the Easter bunny

had left anything.
Gotta love a little girl who's watching out for all of us. ;)

And that rabbit had hidden some treats so both kids were quite happy
when they were found!

After breakfast we enjoyed a beautiful worship service at church.

And came back home where we waited for my parents to arrive to spend the rest of the day with us.

William adores his Grandma and Grandpa and

spent some of the time waiting in our front yard.

My little bunny with the blue ears was doing the bunny hop and if you look closely at his hands,

he has a tight  grip on a few pieces of his Easter candy.
Which he promptly popped in his mouth after I snapped these.
I don't know if I've ever mentioned how much this boy loves chocolate.

This Easter I received 2 treats that I truly appreciated this year.
We went out to brunch (a FIRST for me for Easter).

I'm usually the one preparing our dinner,

which I enjoy but it was great to do something different.

It was at a fabulous restaurant in a charming and quaint historic stone house

where the kids could play and run around in the yard after our meal.

(Thank you Dan!)

And the second treat was that our oldest son Nick and his girlfriend Lindsey met us there.
I was pleasantly surprised that they could make it.
So our entire family was together for Easter this year.
That makes my heart happy.

Grace told me recently that she wishes we could have more pictures taken of all of us together.

So that is now a goal of mine, and I'll be making sure that happens this year!

I hope everyone's Easter was lovely.

(Our two littles hopping and playing on the stones).

It's Black and White Wednesday,

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