Hi All,

Hope you all had a lovely weekend! We had another Spring filled weekend which meant we had to split up the weekend with a little fun and a little work.

We started off with a trip into Brooklyn for some brunch.

If you are ever in the area you must stop at Seersucker.I had the chocolate stuffed french toast and Hudson had to have the scrambled egg, cheese and ham croissant sandwich so that Mommy could get a couple of bites in too!

Afterwards we went across the street to the playground and had some fun riding an elephant:

Then we moved locations and headed into the Dumbo area of Brooklyn and stopped into Dabney Lee’snew retail shop (More on this tomorrow. So pretty!)

Along with a quick peek into the Market from West Elm. Another beauty with more pictures coming this week.

It was a beautiful sunny day so after the shopping trips we headed towards the east river and went into East River Park. You could get right up to the waters edge and all of the kids were skipping stones into the water or at least trying too. Hudson and Jon had to go over and try themselves.

The park also included a massive ship themed playground. Hudson ran around for over an hour. He had never had more fun!

Close up of my little Brooklyn Hipster:

Of course before we headed home we popped into One Girl Cookies for some treats for the trip back home.

On Sunday we had to get some work done and since Hudson is now waking up at 6 am we got to work early and worked on the gallery wall:

We are almost done with it. Just missing 4 photos! I totally thought this was going to be a quick project where I would just hammer a couple of nails and be done with it, but it took a lot of planning to figure out sizes of frames and how many I needed, templates to be made to make sure spacing is correct and then actually inserting all of the photos into the frames and rehang them all. So much time, but worth it.

After all that work we treated ourselves to some lunch at our favorite bakery/cafe, which now had their outdoor seating open so we ate al fresco!

The day continued with some yardwork and power washing the house plus a trip to the park around the corner. Since it was a short walk we decided to take out a Power Wheels that Jon had found curbside and fixed.

{Hudson can’t reach the pedals so Jon has to get in with him and drive. The both love it and our battery power lasted for a round trip.}

Sadly all weekends must come to an end and this one ended with Hudson’s first bubble bath!

There are now tears at the end of bath time.

Happy Monday all!

P.S. Don’t forget that the lovely Loren from this weeks IN HER SHOES post and Loren Hope Jewelry offered all ES readers 10% off with coupon code EFFORTLESSSTYLE. So tempting!