Easter

All throughout the week before Easter, the Wares were dropping all of these gifts off, one by one with activities and food and lots of Easter Lilies! 

The Easter Lilies were not originally part of the plan, but I had been so excited about my beautiful tulips that had started blooming and was happy that they were going to be beautiful just in time for Easter when all of the family would be here for Kami's report and a big family get-together and dinner at our house.  The day before, I looked out the window and all of my tulips were GONE!  Upon closer inspection, it appeared that a deer had walked the perimeter of the front yard and ate every single one of them.  I had mentioned this to the Wares, so they showed up with all of these Easter Lilies.  They are the best neighbors!

Kami's report was amazing: she really has a gift for bringing the spirit when she talks.  All but one of my siblings were able to come for it! (Nathan was missing, but the rest of his family came!) I grabbed the opportunity to get pictures because I don't know when that will happen again:

We had a real house-full (about 61 people) and the only way that we were able to feed everyone was that everyone brought lots of dishes to share!

I had everyone bring ten eggs for each child that wanted to participate and we had an egg hunt in the park by our house.  This pic doesn't even do justice to how many people it looked like, and this was just pointed in one direction!:

Two cute grandmas:

And grandpas:

There were cousins everywhere to be found; the decks, the kitchen, yard, every room in the house:

And the rest of the family was doing the Kerns thing. Talking and  Playing and picking and singing and listening:

This was a great day.