Easter Hoppenings :)

On Good Friday, we normally wash the walls because it's a chore everybody hates so I try to turn it into a sacrificial example of Jesus' dying on the cross for us.  He died for us, we can clean the walls.  I don't know, it's all very Lenty and Good Friday-y in my head.  Anyhoo, this Good Friday, my lead up-high wall washer (Phil) was working on the ice cream store, so the kids and I decided to clean out the mudroom instead, also a very hated project.  Here's about 2/3 of the contents of the mudroom spread all over our living room.  The other 1/3 of the contents are my shoes that live on shelves in there.  Everyone had to go through their shoe box and their hook jackets/sweatshirts and get rid of everything they no longer wore.  We vacuumed and febreezed the mudroom and now it's a nice little nook again.

The Ice Cream Cottage...we walk Lucy down there in the evening to check on any progress, it's only 3/4 mile from our house :)

Maggie and I went for our much needed annual mani/pedi.  She was texting me how ticklish it was and I agree, but worth it to have cute feet in the end.

I let my nail girl pick the color and she chose this light purple for Easter.

We attended the 8am Mass on Easter Morning.  This was definitely not a buy.new.outfits.that.are.coordinated kind of year and more of a just.pick.something.from.your.closet kind of year.

The Easter Bunny came while we were at church!  Lots of candy and fave snacks a video game and books and an electric toothbrush for everyone.

We made lemon mascarpone pancakes (triple the recipe, add juice of one lemon to batter and skip the berry topping) and bacon for breakfast, delish.  Then we cooked our three dishes for the potluck dinner later - Crockpot Mac n Cheese,  Sweet n Sour Instant Pot Meatballs (no peppers) and Dauphinoise Potatoes.  They were all good, and I doubled all the recipes. 

Around noon we went to my sister's house and marvelled at her newly remodeled kitchen.  This is most of the Sweeney side of the family - missing four kids.

Andrew and his cousin, Lilly, left the party to go "kill" his Senior Assassin target, who happens to be on the tennis team with Lilly.  He missed her...again.  She's a sneaky one!

An Easter egg hunt for the little ones (not too many little ones anymore!) ended the day.

I hope your Easter was great! Remember it's a long season and not just a day, so keep on celebrating.  He is Risen!