Easter Weekend

Attention: Late post ahead!


Did everyone else have a good Easter weekend?

Because ours was just delightful.

We spent Saturday outside.

And most of Sunday as well.

Saturday we planted some much needed plants in the {very naked} bed in front of the house.

And some on the side of the house, since we stripped the old plants there too.

There was no sort of vegetation when we moved here last July.

The previous owners didn't do a thing.

We have actually done more in one spring than they did in the entire ten years that they lived here.

Which sucks for us because that means we have:

1} Spent way too much money on trees and plants and

2} will not see the return for years.

But back to Saturday.
The sunshine was a nice change from the gloomy gray we have been seeing. I met the hub at Lowes and loaded a flat bed cart with ornamental fescue grasses, red peony plants, curly grasses, boxwoods, juniper, and a weathered red planter box for the front porch. We made a couple stops on the way home {steak and shake for afternoon milkshakes, the pet store to play with puppies, and grandma deb's playground so the kids could burn some of their neverending energy} so we didn't get started until after 5pm.

But within just a couple hours, the whole front of the house was transformed.

It still needs some board and batton shudders and I would like to put some architectural details at the peaks. But it is surely making a turn for the better.
Not so bare now.
Or boring.
But I won't post a pic until we stuff the beds full of chocolate mulch, because it looks rather country right now with the grass as the landscape bed.
More like random plantings at a foreclosed house, if I am being completely honest.

Easter Sunday we did not go to church. We woke up later than planned and had to be to brunch with the hubs family by 11:30. It just wasn't going to happen for us. I didn't even attempt it.
But, I was bummed. Because I love the Easter service!

My Lord Jesus has Risen!

There's a loud organ playing.

Everyone is dressed up {those cute little old ladies in their hugely adorned hats and the kids in their Sunday best are my favorite}.

People are just jovial.

Plusthere is usually a good meal afterwards {and of course enough candy to hold you over until Halloween... errr May 1st}.

The kiddos certainly got Easter baskets filled with candy and cute little Easter toys and even a cool $2 bill from the hubs parents.
And they found eggs up at the lake with their cousins. Nolan was a champion at finding tough ones.

Then we ate at Portside pizza with grandma Sweetie Pie, The Bills's, Memaw, and Uncle Nate before driving home.
It had been a long day. But somehow the children managed to keep their eyes open as we crept up the driveway at 9pm. What?!
Then the calamity of the evening fell upon me and I made them go to bed. I was busted. Broken. Tired.

And here is where I bid you ado...