Whew! What a weekend!

The weekend's not quite over, but I don't expect I'll get much of an opportunity later in the day to write this, so thought I'd take my chance now.

Though we're home anyway and wouldn't know the difference between a long weekend and a regular one, our friends and family made sure we did see the difference!! There was a lot of activity in the Mason household this weekend! And we love it!


Friday was a fairly uneventful day, so I guess it didn't really start until Saturday when the Haggertys came to visit. Christine was extremely excited - she LOVES her Godparents and had been asking about "Bedin" for a couple of weeks now. Kevin, Amy and Liam came for a visit late in the afternoon, bringing over dinner and basically looking after everything. Liam and Christine had a great time playing and we had lots of laughs, mostly at Liam's expense, for all his falls... What a crazy kid!
We definitely enjoyed the wonderful meal and company.

Then on Saturday morning, the Durepos came over for an Easter egg hunt in the morning. Gilles, Tara and Jacob were over around 9:15 and the eggs were all found by 9:30. They had lots of fun finding the eggs - everytime they spotted a new one, it was like they'd discovered gold. It was very very cute. All the eggs were hidden in pairs, and Christine quickly learned that one was for her and one was for Jacob, so when she found them, she'd grab them, put one in her basket and run to find Jacob to add to his stash as well. She was very good at sharing yesterday!

Christine and Papa then joined the Durepos at the YMCA for a swim (which Christine loves) while I stayed at home with Nicholas, waiting for mon oncle Paul, ma tante Melissa and Edeanne to arrive for their visit. Unfortunately, they called later in the afternoon to say that they were unable to make it. Lucky for us, we were invited to go to the Durepos for dinner, so not only were we with "family" for Easter, Trev and Christine got to eat ham! (I'm not a fan at all, so it's not something we have here - ever...). Trevor was pretty excited. We had another egg hunt at their house (we hid the same eggs as in the morning...) and then had a fantastic meal. We really enjoyed that as well!

This morning also started fairly early with Paul, Melissa and Edeanne arriving around 9am to cook us some breakfast! They also brought everything with them to make a terrific big breakfast (eggs, bacon, toast & potatoes) and we enjoyed seeing all the kids together. Christine didn't have to be quite as careful with Edeanne as she's a little bit older and stronger (4 mths) than Nicholas. She's also more interested in what's going on around her and is interacting more, so Christine really enjoyed that. Here's one of the attempts at a family picture. Tigger even made the shot!

The kids are now napping (thank goodness!) as we await the Lawson family's visit! Christine is anxious to see Maya, Natasha and Jaida, of course. She's also asking if "Bedin" (aka Kevin) is coming again as we do usually see the gang all together, so she's assuming that if she sees Maya, that she'll also get to see Kevin... We're really looking forward to seeing them again. It's so much fun to see all the kids together and getting to hang out with our friends.

We'll have yet another meal to enjoy (yay!) that Bonnie made up. Looking forward to seeing what delicious meal she's bringing down! If only hosting friends was always this easy... I haven't cooked all weekend! I could easily get used to this!!! We're so lucky!

We hope everyone else's Easter weekend was as enjoyable as ours. We'll be back to the old routine tomorrow, so hopefully Christine won't be too bored with no one coming for a visit! Maybe we'll have to take her out somewhere to ease her back in...