Full of Family Fun

This weekend was busy, busy, busy. We started Friday evening with a baseball game, had another baseball game mid-day Saturday and then went to Columbiana to watch my nephew play Saturday afternoon.

Ben ready on 3rd base.

Ben at bat.

Abe and MC watching big brother.

The little sisters making dirt pies on the bleachers.

The baseball league had a donut sale as a fund-raiser. This was Abe sneaking a donut after swiping the girl's dirt pies off the bleachers - look closely at his hands. He contaminated the rest of the box! (and yes, I let him eat it...dirt and all)

Cousin Matthew getting a hit.

Abe and MC playing with water at the game.

The pictures I forgot to upload are of Abe pouring water on the ground so that he could jump in his self-made puddles.

We went to church on Sunday morning and enjoyed the annual Palm Sunday worship service presented by the choir. Words can't describe how moving and awesome it was. Anna Beth was so precious singing the praise songs VERY loudly. So loud that I think she annoyed the lady sitting in front of her. She kept turning around and looking at her! I just smiled.

After church we went to my mom's for the annual Palm Sunday egg hunt and pot-luck lunch. It was raining so we didn't think we would hunt eggs, but all the kids were already outside and filthy so we hid the eggs and let them go! Mom puts little goodies inside each egg, so they were pumped.

Cousins enjoying lunch.

Almost all the kids waiting for the go ahead. Everyone from both sides of the family come. Most of kids are my cousins children, we left one or two out of the picture because we thought we had everyone. There are more than 20 kids total (too many to actually count and remember them all).

Emptying the eggs.

How many did you get?

Sweet cousins - Anna Beth and Jaycee.

Cousin Mac (my brothers little boy) showing off his egg chalk. He came ready for the rain in his boots!

Merrie Cannon trying to "wake-up" my brother so he would get under the couch and get her bouncy ball.

The next two pictures are to clear something up for my fellow Toyota Sienna drivers. About halfway down highway 26 we discovered we were 5 miles to empty. Highway 26 is about 12 miles of country road with a gas station at either end. At the point we realized we needed gas, we had to pray that we made it to the gas station - we were too far to turn around. Anna Beth had a little freak out when my DTE (Drive to Empty) hit 0, but we made it another 2-3 miles to the gas station. So....If you drive a Sienna there is a little grace period between the time your DTE hit 0 and you actually run out of gas!