EASTER Sunday

Nick and I started our day with a wonderful breakfast that Nick prepared...cherizo and egg tacos...and the movie "Oceans." The dogs also got to celebrate with an Easter treat.


Dory and her bone...

Nick, the dogs, and I spent most of our Easter in Livingston at Beth's (Nick's mom) house. Livingston is about 100 miles from our house. We spent time on the way out there chatting about Nick's dream for a future country weekend place halfway between here and San Antonio. I keep telling him with all the stuff he wants to buy he needs to play the lottery. :) He hasn't started yet...

We got there about 11:30...right before Beth and Derek, Nick's brother, arrived home from church. We visited for a bit, and we had Derek open his belated birthday presents before lunch. He LOVED them! We wish that Derek's girlfriend, Amy, would have been there to visit too, but she was in Chicago visiting a friend. We missed you Amy! Parker, Dory, and Lazlo spent a few minutes getting reacquainted with Diesel, Derek and Amy's pug, and then they were back to their meddling selves. They love running around out in the backyard.

Derek and one of his awesome presents...a ZigZag Racer...to use at the lake by his apartment. He also got a really cool snowboarding beanie and a couple Pez dispensers since he collects them.

Reunited...and it feels SO good...Parker and Lazlo.

The lunch table...very festive!

Beth prepared a wonderful Easter lunch for the four of us. Ham, roasted potatoes, green bean casserole, mango salsa, and homemade bread. I highly recommend any of Beth's cooking, but her bread is always DELICIOUS. It was awesome...very hard to resist eating too much of it since I am still on my gestational diabetes diet. Dessert was a really good sugar-free raspberry jello with a bit of whipped cream. I liked it, but I was too full to eat much of it.

Nick was the designated ham slicer. He takes his kitchen jobs so seriously.

Ready for lunch...

 

After lunch we played a couple games of Jumbo Sequence. Derek was a Sequence rookie, but he's a fast learner. Nick and I won one; Derek and Beth won one. Beth and I then decided to take an afternoon nap while the guys went outside and cut trees down with her chainsaw. Boys will be boys! They get so giddy out there with power tools.

The afternoon ended with more visiting (and eating) before we left around 6. It was a very low-key day, and Nick and I really enjoyed ourselves. We are looking forward to spending more time with Derek & Amy when they come visit Katy in May. We also can't wait until next Easter when we have Ryker for the Easter bunny to visit. Yay! It'll be so fun!