Last year for Easter I went out to visit my family in Stockton for a night before coming back to spend Easter in KC with Rob. With Easter taking place right in the middle of baseball season, it will be a holiday we always have to spend close to home. Luckily for us, our home is now close to our loved ones' homes!
We spent the Saturday of Easter weekend in Wichita and enjoyed a delicious Italian meal with Rob's family. Although, after spending a week in Italy, my standards for Italian food have risen exponentially. :) I don't think anything will quite match up. We went to church with the next morning...and while we didn't get to sing "Every morning is Easter morning" (always one of my favorite parts of Easter service at FPC), it was still a great service and a great reminder about why we really celebrate Easter!
After church we headed over to my grandparents house for Easter brunch. Since I still have a young cousin on that side, we partook in an Easter egg hunt, which was a blast as always. Robby refused to hunt eggs on the grounds that he is too old...I, on the other hand, happily ran around with my grocery sack collecting as many coin and jelly bean filled eggs as I could! We need to make sure we always have young kids in the family because I don't want this tradition to go away anytime soon!
And I know I've mentioned this before, but after making it through 2011 with only one full family picture, my mom has made it her mission to get pics of all of us together as often as possible. Here are some possible Christmas card candidates (just the ones with Rob...the ones before that were taken while we were waiting for him to get outside. :))
Then Bets and I tried to grab a few pics with our brothers...Joe Henry was not cooperating!
They make me feel so short!
The whole family! :)
My birthday was the next weekend! I stretched out celebrating as much as possible. Saturday night we took a risk and drove through the tornado warnings to enjoy dinner with my family at the Anchor Inn! One of my favorite restaurants...but not one of Robby's. As a result, he always wants to go other places, so I used my birthday veto power and Anchor Inn it was! My folks treated us all to delicious dinner while the we all kept a close eye on the weather channel playing on the big screen. We got to celebrate with some dear family friends (Hi Ackleys! Hi Merediths!), Baby Joe and Savs, my folks, and my aunt Mo! It was a great way to kick off the birthday week!
Here is my balloon hat, courtesy of Brynn Ackley. :)
The next morning we went to a birthday brunch at the country club with the Ramseyers in Wichita. I love going there because everytime I do I think of meeting my sweet husband! I point out the room to Robby everytime...and he humors me by not rolling his eyes (most of the time) but instead nodding and saying "yes, I remember" with only a hint of sarcasm. :)
On my actual birthday my Momma came over and took me out to lunch and brought me a birthday cake! :) She sure knows how to make us all feel special on our birthdays!
That night I went out to dinner with my Grandma and Grandpa Bear and Bets. Robby had a game out of town that day so it was nice to get to spend the evening with some of my other favorite people eating some DELICIOUS food at Bone Fish.
The weekend after my birthday I went up to Kansas City to go WEDDING DRESS SHOPPING with Molls! One of our other BFFs Chels was in town, so we were all able to get together for a fun sleepover and lots of good snacks! After dinner at Molls we moved over to Jenny's perfect bachelorette pad for some late night snacks, wine, and lots of good conversation. I love those girls!
Started off our weekend with some delicious wine...
The late night snack spread....all of my favorite things! Chips, salsa, queso, big cookie, ice cream, cake, wine....YUM!
Singing me Happy Birthday. :) I think everybody should have to blow out the candles on a cake on their birthdays. It will never get old to me!
Although...you do feel old when you realize that a single pack of candles doesn't cover your age anymore. Maybe just stick to a random small number....like four. :)
The next morning we got up and went dress shopping with Molls! It was so fun (but just as overwhelming as I remember it being). I'm so honored to get to stand up there with her as one of matrons of honor and can't wait to watch her marry Luke! This isn't the dress that she chose...and I know you can't see her face...but I wanted to leave some mystery! :)
I have SO much more to catch everyone up on...including Baby Bammel (born over a month ago...LOTS of pictures to share), Mother's day (clearly my mother's day post will be late...sorry Mom, Grandma, and Mimi!), Baby Joe's golf tournament, and a few other odds and ends. This weekend I'm photographing another wedding so I will probably not get any other posts up until after that! But soon...they will go up soon! :)
Until then....
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