Awesome lunch, as always, at the family center for Easter Sunday this year!

These two!

Sophia, Anna Kate, Haley, Noelle, and Melissa getting excited about the Easter egg hunt!

 

The BFFs posing in front of their great great grandmother’s organ.  I remember growing up playing this organ and pulling out all the dials and pumping the wheels like crazy at my grandmother’s red and white house at 810 El Paso Street.

 

It’s hilarious that Rose had to hunt Easter eggs holding her blankey!

 

Saylor’s proud of herself mixed in with a little shy face!

 

Rose and Harper trip me out so much!  They made the same face every time I took their picture!  The littles just finished the first hunt, now it’s time for the big girls!

Here they come!

  

This room is called the “keepsake room.”  We keep family photo albums and antiques in this room.  There’s a picture from every single Easter dating back to when my mom was a kid, along with signatures of who came each year.  I’ll take a picture of one next year to show you!  It’s really cool.  I’ve never missed an Easter on top of this hill, and I don’t intend to.    Such wonderful memories!  You can see my Granny and Aunt Polly with their siblings in the picture behind Noelle’s arm in the first picture.  I remember when they posed for that picture.  I was watching on at about Anna Kate’s age. 

Cousin Linda does an awesome job coordinating everything!  She had to give the kids clues this year where to find the golden egg, which was a frog this year.  She said if the frog wanted to turn into a prince, he would want to be kissed by a girl, so where would he be hiding?  Noelle ran to check under both vintage dresses, and he was hiding under the second dress!  She read the note inside, and it said she had to hop and croak like a frog.

 

She did it and got $25 gold dollars!  She then signed the golden egg with her name and the year.  She’s never won but has always wanted to so badly, and this year was her turn!  The froggy was under this vintage family dress. 

Rose won the last two years (2013 and 2014) in her age bracket, but her streak was broken this year.  The kids that won had to listen for clues, so Rose was out by default this time! 

The Banks Fam!

 

Sweet sisters!

 

 

Rose and Saylor were really talking to each other!  So fun watching Saylor turn into a big girl before our very eyes!

 

Today, we celebrate new beginnings, new life, and the sacrifices that were made for us long ago.  We are so very blessed to live this amazing life!