Easter in Graham

This past weekend we went to Graham to spend Easter with Mimi and Papa. It always amazes me that we can fit so many people in one little house. We had 17 people in a 3 bedroom, two bath house, and we made it to church on time... now that's just skill! A far improvement from the normal "on time" to church being 10 minutes late and walking, all 17 of us, to the very front!

The weekend started with everyone talking about the fires all around us. You could see them and smell them. The smell of burning mesquite was like sitting in the kitchen of an Abilene barbecue restaurant. Once everyone got there, we all hung out after we sent the kids to bed. The next morning (Saturday) we woke up to kids running around screaming and asking when the Easter Egg Hunt was going to be. Needless to say, it's hard to sleep past 7:00 when everyone is there. All the kids, and Brandon went down to the dock to do a little morning fishing while the rest of us laid around in our pajamas until about noon (this is a rule at the lake). The kids would come in at least every 30-45 minutes to ask when the Easter Egg Hunt was going to be, so we finally came up with 4:00pm. All the men went to go hide the eggs while we kept the kids in the front of the house. I got some pretty funny pictures of them finding the eggs: *you can click on the pictures and they'll get bigger*

Here are all the kiddos before we said "GO!" they were all anxious.. and we made Kirk stand in there :)

Abby and Carson are the youngest so they got to go first--check out his face!

Grant got to go 5 seconds later

Looking hard in the bushes

Papa found the "money egg" with a $100 in it. Jeff (the only Jameson male of the bunch) wanted it so bad he kept saying, "please, please, please, papa!! I'm carrying on the family name!" I thought it was a pretty good argument!

Our first family picture!

Beautiful bluebonnets!

Then we had confetti eggs and the kids all got Papa pretty good.

And the rest of these are from Sunday after church. I will say this though, it was one of those cloudy days where the sun is so bright still that it is just painful to keep your eyes open. We tried that whole close your eyes until they say 3 things and it still didn't work, but here they are.

So that was my holiday, I hope yours was just as fun as mine! Love you all!