April highlights {Easter, Nick's 40th, Mary Poppins, St. Anthony's Chapel}
1) Easter. we hosted Easter celebrations at our house this year. Joe and Sabrina drove out to spend the weekend with us. the littles got to visit with the Easter bunny at daycare (I have very ambivalent feelings towards the Easter bunny -- I don't mind it, but would never go out of my way to arrange a photo op the way I do with Santa). we dyed Easter eggs Saturday morning and then the littles stayed home with Joe and Sabrina while I took the older girls to the Easter vigil mass. she is the master of the gradient egg! new dress and sunglasses from Nana there was quite a turnout for the vigil mass. I thought the architecture of the building across the street lent an even more medieval flair to the Easter bonfire and subsequent procession we circled around the church before processing in for the remainder of the service -- my favourite mass of the year. I wrote more extensively about this here . Easter morning, the girls hunted for their Easter baskets while Nick...