Monday April 24, 2006

 

A Big Day at Our House on Sunday

The Hershey Easter Dinner

 

Setting up for fifty-plus people, means removing cars from our garage, putting carpet on the floor, preparing the room in back of the garage, and setting up tables for forty-eight people.

We added ten more seats at our kitchen table.  I was not sure if we needed them this year, because the teenagers were at a youth conference, and the three college students were not coming because they will be home for a family wedding on Saturday.

I kept Cerwin’s 65th Birthday theme going for one more day!

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Part of our responsibility was making the ham.

 

By 12:30 PM the garage tables were full.

 

 

 

Some of the preteen and early teen cousins had fun being on their own at the kitchen table.

Above are three of our grandsons – Nathan, Josh, and Jordan.

 

Cousins Tristan and Chelsey

 

Just before dessert we took time to celebrate Cerwin’s birthday.

 

 

 

Since it was rainy and wet outside, the children got their Easter eggs in bags instead of having to hunt them in the yard.

 

 

By the middle of the afternoon we were able to open the garage door and enjoy the outdoors.

I talked my brothers and sister into posing for a picture.  

(Left to Right):  My sister Nancy Becker and I are in back of our brothers Dale, Steve, and Clair Hershey.  Our brothers own and operate the nearby dairy farm.  The five of us enjoy the privilege of living within a quarter mile of each other.

 

Four of our granddaughters talked our son-in-law Ivan into taking them for a ride in his Mini Cooper.

 

 

Grandson Jared made sure he found the mud puddles.  I was surprised when he made a splash just as I took this photo.  Notice the muddy splash just in front of him in the grass!