Easter Weekend

We colored eggs.

The Easter Bunny delivered the basket.



We had brunch at Cheesecake Bistro.



We rode the carousel at La Freniere.

We made Easter Basket Cupcakes!

We celebrated a friends birthday with a petting zoo at her house!

With Cassidy off of school on Monday,  Cassidy and I spent the day together.   We cleaned the house, did some laundry, stopped at work to get an experiment started, visited Daddy at work for a lunch date, took a long nap (during which I decorated the cupcakes), and then swam in the pool in the backyard.  We finished up the night with our usual bike ride to the library for story and craft time! 

  I had so much fun with my girl!

What a perfect day to end a great weekend!

Tile

I just realized that I had forgotten to post pictures of our exciting addition to our kitchen! 

We tiled the backsplash!

We are fairly pleased with the results, but we had some problems with the grouting step.  The grout dried faster than we expected ... unfortunately before we wiped all of it off.  This was made more problematic by the tile we chose which is heavily textured.  While this looks really cool, it provides about a million little grooves for the grout to settle into ... and dry.  So I spent about 8 hours scraping grout off of the textured tiles with a chopstick over the two days following our tile installation. 

While there is still quite a bit of grout left on the tile, it's not really visible also because of the textured tile.  We de-hazed twice and haven't sealed it yet, but it's complete for now. 

Next up:  painting the kitchen yet again.  The tile doesn't match the green but we decided to buy the tile we really liked and change the wall color.  I'm sure I'll get around to painting sometime soon ...

Cassidy Said...

Papa was putting Cassidy to bed the other night. 

He read her a book or two, and then was telling her a made up story. 

Apparently Cassidy was ready to go to bed because as Papa rambled on and on in the telling of his story, Cassidy said,

"Papa ... Get to the end."