Easter Bunnies

Are we all feeling the oh so heavy dark cloud of the post Easter chocolate rush come down, i shall atleast ponder the thought of jogging today...perhaps. So, This year Little Miss Edie has recieved a grand total of FIVE Easter Eggs, she is already growing rapidly out of 12-18month clothing so i'm thinking these eggs may need to be stretched out...mummy style :)

We took a little trip on Good Friday, it was my Mummy's 60th Birthday so we packed ourselves into the car and headed off to an Easter Egg hunt at our local farm, chickens, calfs, bunnies galore.

After hosing down the wellies we trotted off to a local pub for a well deserved lunch

Rutland Water

So Sunday morning arrives, the sun is beaming through the curtains and the not so faint sound of 'the call of Edie' can be heard from her bedroom, so what to do? We run through a few suggestions, gardening? no, visiting relatives? no... the suggestion agreed upon, a trip to Rutland Water.

I've never been to Rutland Water before and as the weather is so great we pack up the car, pack up the baby and pack up a picnic too...

I LOVE daffodils...can you tell its Spring?

Dear Hubbys not so wised suggestion of the day, lets go and hire a boat....

Erm, No! Let's sit on dry land and WATCH the boats

I think we must have walked around 5 miles, the scenery was incredible

The levels seemed pretty low (considering its March!) We were able to walk along the water front part of the way

The locals, they favoured my cheese salad sandwich over hubbys tuna and chilli

A Basket Full Of Mother's Day Goodies

My weekend was really good, Saturday we ventured off for a family meal (Mr's side) and Sunday i was treated to a lie-in, as a mother to a one year old these are very rare occurances so this was happily accepted, i also recieved a lovely bunch of flowers

So pretty, they are currently sat on my equally pretty new dressing table.

After munching my brekkie in bed (what i could get back from Edie anyway) we trooped off to visit my Mom, turns out that she had a little Mothers Day gift for me too

How AMAZING is this lovely basket, apparently it belonged to my Grandma (Mom's Mom) and she had found it stored away at the weekend...seen it and thought of me.

Awww *sniff*

So what to do with a basket like this...

It would be rude not too, right?

Yes, i am now the very proud owner of another stunning basket for stowing away the crochet essentials, it has pride of place in my living room.

What a great weekend

That Monday Feeling

We'll after this weekend i could do with a holiday!

After an 'Edie Free' Saturday Evening my lovely husband and i decided to get cracking with my decorating project (well, he was made too much to his disgust as he loathes decorating)
Our box bedroom was stripped of its bed, computer, pictures etc and i nice clean splash of good old Magnolia was applied, our box room has been painted in an off white with red 'highlights' which suited it well as a spare room/study vibe but the time had come though for a make over requirement, with the view that 'everyone loves Magnolia' for people browing for property (as were on the market still) Magnolia seemed a logical choice. It took a mind boggling SIX coats to cover our red feature wall and now...i am exhuasted.

Tonight for tea i have cracked out the trusty crockpot and a homemade (slow cooked) Lasagna is on the Menu, can't wait to try it out...

Hope you have enjoyed this lovely weekend