Easter 2017

The Easter Bunny stopped by our house!

I love that Brenna always leaves a note for the Easter Bunny. (And the Tooth Fairy....and Santa Clause.....)

They were excited to look through all of their goodies!

This year the loot included colored paper, candy, new swim suits, flip flops, lip gloss, and a few other things.
Then we all got ready for the early service at church.
I love these two pretty girls! (even if it did take 47 tries to get a good picture!)

Nina bought their Easter dresses this year, so I got away with one more year of matching dresses. Pretty sure if I had bought them, there would have been lots of protests.
Church service was wonderful, as always. And I enjoyed having both of the girls sitting between Josh and I. It made my Mama heart happy.
After church, we stopped by Pops and Memaw's to let the girls show off their pretty Easter dresses and to get Memaw to take a picture of all of us.
And another 47 tries later...

After we went home and changed, we gathered our stuff and headed back to Pops and Memaw's to gather with everyone else.
Pops did some grilling..

These guys supervised...

Brenna and Macie were sporting their brand new beloved Pizza Place shirts that Roger gave them the day before...

We all enjoyed a wonderful lunch of grilled chicken thighs, salad, and lots of other yummy goodies! And as soon as they were done eating, the kiddos were ready to hunt some eggs! They got a little impatient waiting on the adults to finish our lunch! But finally we were all done and it was hidin' time! 

We made them pose for some pictures while the eggs were being hidden.

Brenna, Macie, Addie, Abel, Walker and Wyatt

They were NOT very patient with this photo. There were candy filled eggs that they NEEDED to hunt, and group pictures were the least of their worries! 

And because Josh is the king of pestering...he led them out the door BACKWARDS! Then he made them line up backwards and wait for the 2 little ones to get a head start before they started running around like mad people who had never had a piece of candy in their entire 6-10 year existence! 

Walker says "To heck with this! I'm the youngest and the cutest- I do what I want!"

Walker Man carefully scoped all of the eggs out looking for just the right one!

Then the rest of them proceeded to run around and fill their baskets to overflowing! A few even had to empty and start over because they had filled it up to overflowing.

Macie takes her egg hunting VERY seriously! Don't get in her way or she will run you over!

Wyatt's plan attack seemed to be "Take long strides and they will never be able to keep up!"

After the candy had all been inspected, and the money had been counted, we moved on to a friendly game of volleyball!

Do you see me in this picture? No? Well that's because my lovely Brenna Grace told me that when it comes to playing volleyball, I'm a "disappointment". Yes, you read that correctly. A disappointment! You'd think I served the ball way over to the side into the field or tried to hit a ball and missed by 6 feet...6 times! OK- so all of those things DID happen. But STILL!
So I decided that I was more cut out for taking pictures and cheering everyone else on!
Later I tried to get a picture with my husband.

Don't let him fool you- he's not really a butt head! He only does this because he knows it drives me nuts!!!!

See??!! He really does have a pretty smile!

It was yet another successful Jackson family get together! Everyone had fun, and as always we enjoyed just being together! We sure missed Graddy and Mrs. Kathy this year! But Graddy had been working long hours and Mrs. Kathy was in the middle of tax season working at a tax office....so she was basically working around the clock. So we completely understood. Hopefully they can join in next year!