Easter morning, excited to get some treats and presents

This weekend was all about soccer on Saturday as both Jude and Anna had games. We all went to both games and this took up most of the day. Both kids played well and enjoyed their games.

But this weekend was all about Easter. The kids were both really excited about it and even though we told them to not get out of bed until 7am they were both up by 6:30am and keen to get downstairs. Marcy had created beautiful Easter baskets filled with treats and gifts as you can see above.

Jude eating treats and reading his new book with Picky

There was an Easter egg hunt in the backyard with dozens of eggs filled with treats or money. Again Marcy was up until quite late getting all this together. And the kids were just as excited as ever to go racing around the backyard collecting eggs.

Anna doing a performance on the Karaoke machine with our neighbor Elsie

We usually get the kids one big gift at Easter and this year Anna got a Karaoke machine which she loved. She spent half the day singing along to her favorite songs. Jude got a Nintendo Switch, something he has been wanting for a long time. We played FIFA 19, the soccer game, for much of the afternoon.

Anna with our new dog Olive Rose

The excitement has been building in our family for weeks now. This Wednesday we officially become dog owners when we pick up our new addition to the family. Olive Rose Renton will be eight weeks when we bring her home and we are all excited (except Pickles the cat, who has no idea how her world will change). Next weekend we will report how our first few days have done. We are going in with our eyes wide open expecting this will be a challenging first year.