My goodness, already a week has gone by since Easter Day!
And there were some gifts handed out too...
Ann prints off photos that she's taken on their many travels and makes them into notecards...beautiful idea!
One very excited little girl, tries her new Canadian hat on her mum to see how it looks!
While her dad catches up with his godfather Ross.
But the best thing of all for me was the thank you note that Alex (in Year 1) wrote to me before she went home...
As well as a chocolate bunny, we had given her a little stuffed fabric bunny...and in her note, Alex finishes by saying she will take good care of it and keep it warm!
The flowers in church on Sunday were in memory of a friend's mum who died at this time last year...
It was an extra special day this year for us, as we were putting on a lunch for the two lovely people who had taken DH and I on a day tour of Vancouver last August. Ann and Ross have been cruising and their ship, The Celebrity Millenium, stopped in Brisbane on Easter Sunday. My late BiL Keith, and his wife Sonja, had become friends of Ann and Ross many years ago when Keith and Sonja taught in Canada. So we had Sonja and some of her family over for lunch too.
DH was in charge of the barbecue...
A platter of nibblies to start though first...
And some salmon!
Even though I had spent most evenings for a few weeks before, making sure the house and garden looked their best ( Ann is a real estate agent/realtor), and complained how tired I was after working all day...it was all worth it!
And the bunny with the bellyful of little Easter eggs, still had a few left...
what a lovely way to spend Easter Sunday such a touching note from Alex
ReplyDeletelovely to be able to welcome to Oz........and thank them for their knidness..........
ReplyDeleteLooks like a wonderfull day xxx
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had a fabulous Easter. What fun!
ReplyDeleteLove the phonetic spelling in Alex's note.
ReplyDeleteHow sweet - good to see some people are still encouraged to say thankyou...
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet note, and a wonderful time for all of your. I like the door on your porch. We have been looking at different designs to replace ours and yours is very different from anything we've seen here. Maybe we will do something similar and have an Aussis door on our porch!
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