Pre-Easter Celebration

Yesterday my family gathered together at our house to celebrate Papa and GG's 60th anniversary, Grandma and Pop's 40th anniversary, Thomas' 33rd birthday and Easter! We like to put together as many events as possible at a time apparently! 

Crazily enough, all of those events fell within a week or two of Easter and it seemed appropriate to celebrate them all while everyone could get together. As I've stated in many blogs lately, it was another beautiful spring day, so we enjoyed being outside. We put out some games, Jonathan grilled lots of chicken, we ate dinner outside on the deck and we had an egg hunt in the backyard. I know in a few weeks we'll be grumbling about how hot it is...so we're soaking in as much of spring as possible until then! 

Derrill and Caleb playing a lawn game (something with throwing bean bags)

T-ball time

The boys had a pretty good system, one would hit and the other would fetch! 

Sitting around before eating

Papa playing with Aaron

Pops checking on the Grill Master

Kristen and Hannah Joy

Derrill and Aaron checking on the chicken

Aaron thought this was a dance floor! Super cute

The boys were throwing balls at Derrill, sometimes he was lucky enough to hit them away

Eating a yummy dinner

The Ladies table (plus some kids and minus GG)

Getting ready for the egg hunt

Thomas cheating for Hannah Joy

The boys hunting

They don't play around when candy is on the line

Checking out their eggs

Hannah Joy checking on her eggs

Yummy candy

Aaron looking in his basket

Thomas blowing out his candle while Derrill showed me a picture
on his phone of the crazy  boy (that being Thomas!)

Katy and I... I think this is one of my all time favorites of us! 

Grandma showing Aaron how to use the toy chick she gave him

Two copy cats...see the next pic

Haha...totally copying each other! 

My love and I after a wonderful afternoon with family!

It was so nice to enjoy a relaxed afternoon with my family. The kids had a ton of fun playing outside and there was very little clean up after everyone left since we were outside most of the time. It wasn't our traditional Easter gathering, but a great time getting everyone together. Who says you have to do the same thing every year? I enjoyed mixing it up a bit this time around!