Its Easter weekend and the end of Spring break for my sister. The family arrived Thursday which gave us the extra day to celebrate this adorable lady's 8th Birthday (please remember to add a photo here!!)
Friday was off for everyone but Chris and I - Stacie and Jason took a car-ful of kids to Mills Pond for some baseball practice - the boys LOVE this time with Uncle Jay! - Lunch was lots of burgers at the GrindStone in Collinsville. I am so very thankful they all had fun together!!
When I got home we all rocked a good family 4 mile run - This view never gets old to me.
By the time we got back, this was happening in our back yard. Makes for some good entertainment.
Jeff McClellan took down the dead tree in our back yard and all the neighborhood was watching. We received texts from everyone - even Melanie's dad who was visiting for Easter was capturing it from his wheel chair
Nora got some extra cuddles from her cuddlebug.
THIS is exactly why we wanted to remove the Deck railing. All together just chilling.
Saturday morning called for rain so the Easter egg hunt bounced times and finally around 1 we were able to pull it off. Can you believe this is only a few families?? Doesn't take much and it was perfect for the crew of kids
The post hunt loot collection
I received an awesome game from Barbara for my birthday and these 2 could NOT stop playing it. Adorable!! Great mind. I know what's on Raela and Stacie's birthday list!
Love having a full beautifully set table for our family. We are blessed this Easter to have my Uncle Russ and Raela out to visit us and spend the holiday. My folks truly love having them (and they travel quite well together!)
Here we go filling up the table!
Not sure which shot is better so including them both.
After dinner we had a fierce carpet ball tournament that all enjoyed! even the first timers.
Sunday was a family church day with an impromptu lunch at my folks. Lesson learned - its wonderful that many stores are closed. just requires a little planning ahead. If only I still had that photo of the shopping cart that Jason took while shopping with my Dad and Uncle Russ for lunch. Needless to say, we didn't go hungry!
My mom sweetly prepped some Easter bags for the kiddos and we managed to capture them all together.
The beautiful tree in front of their house made for the perfect photo back drop. So we all took advantage of it.
Love love love the time all together and Love that we can remember through beautiful photos like these!
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