Meadows Family: 2011

Easter this year was HECTIC! We started out by going to my parent's house that Friday (the 22nd), me going and taking pictures of a dear friend and her daughters, eating with the family and then Saturday doing all the Easter festitivities, going to a birthday party for one of best friends' little boys, taking pictures of my sister and Jayden and then relaxing a bit that evening. We had to leave earlier than normal on Sunday so that we could get back home to celebrate Easter and birthdays at the Meadows. Hope you enjoy the pics!

4/23- Coloring eggs at Nana & Papa's

Jayden and Berk doing the dirty work!

Finished dozen colored eggs!

Egg hunt! Berk finding some hidden treasures!

Jack's catching on!

Wet after playing in the water hose with Jayden!

Silly kids!

Jack inspecting his loot!

Cousins: Jack 13 months old, Berk 2 1/2 years old and Jayden 20 months old!

Loved finding the eggs!

Jayden's stockpile!

Big hugs from J to Jack!

Big hugs from J to Berkley!

Two of best guys around!

Cousins running around on the soccer fields getting ready to fly kites!

Dad helping Berk fly the kite; she did a great job!

Love my family so much!

Hello handsome!

After we left Nana & Papa's we came back home and had Easter at the Meadows house! We also had two birthdays to celebrate (Thad's 29th and Wesson Rhyder's 1st!).

4/24- The kids' loot at Gran and Pops'

Berk's basket from the Easter Bunny that he had to leave at Gran & Pops' because we weren't home!

Jack's basket from the Easter Bunny!

Cool guys!

The next T. Swift!

Hunting more eggs!

Definitely catching on! Notice he has two eggs in his hand this go-round!

Best attempt of a picture with them together! Yes, that shirt is now ruined thanks to Jack's chocolate slobber!

Family picture!

BIG TROUBLE IN THE MAKING; Jack and the birthday boy, Wesson Rhyder!

So, we had Jack's birthday on the first Saturday of Spring Break thinking that it would be a great idea, well it was a great idea because lots of people got to come, but it was a BAD idea because we also had SO much going on that weekend and that day. First, the Thursday before we got out for Spring Break, it was my turn to host BUNCO so I did it dutifully and had a great time doing it! Then, Saturday morning I helped host a baby shower from 10:30-12:00 and then I booked it back to the house and finished readying the house for the party. After our party, Berk's "boyfriend" Bryson was having his 3rd birthday starting at 5. Needless to say, it was a CRAZY Saturday full of friends and family. For Jack's birthday I decided to go with baseball because he LOVES balls (I thought about all sports but then I would have just gone even more overboard!) I think the baseball theme really turned out cute and I found him the CUTEST outfit from McCall's here in Lamesa. (I don't have a picture of him in it on here because my card for my other camera crashed midway through the party; hence the crappy quality of some of the pictures!) But we had a great time and it might have been a little "over the top," but they only have a first birthday once right?! I got all of the printable stuff from a shop on Etsy called "Dimple Prints" and this lady creates banners, cards, toppers, ANYTHING and you just print and assemble! LOVED IT and will use it again!So here are the pictures and hopefully I will put some more up as I get them from others! When we took Jack to the doctor on the 14th his one-year stats are 27 lbs. 2 oz. and 30.5 inches long. He was in the 90th percentile for everything and she said that he is going to be tall! We pulled out Berk's stats and he was the same length and he had her beat by 2 lbs. on the weight; but they are pretty comparable because she started out 2 lbs. lighter! Anyway enjoy the pics!

Meadows

***These first two pics are out of order because it was being stubborn and wouldn't let me move them, so sorry for the scatteredness!***

My Great Aunt Leta and her son Gary-they live in Lubbock and I really do need to do a better job of visiting them!

Nana and Papa

Refreshment stand: juice boxes, sodas and water with cups and ice. (My printables package did have printables for the drinks but by that time, I was DONE!) The ice bucket (the red metal thing in the picture) was $5 from the Dollar Store.

Fireplace mantel decoration! I loved seeing all the baseballs!

Concession stand! Our dining room was PERFECT for this and the table worked great! The inflatable balls were part of their favors, the picture frame by the cake played pictures of Jack from birth and the snacks were in the metal buckets with labels (buckets from Hobby Lobby and labels on dowels) The cake of course was done by Gran!

A close up of the cake and the cute banner on the table.

SNACKS! You can see a FEW of the baseball cookies that I made! I tried to keep some of the snacks kid-friendly and others "baseball-themed;" peanuts, cracker jacks.

Favor table; the favor bags had a bunch of baseball "junk" in them from Oriental Trading! Then I had a ball that I wanted everyone to sign and I am going to put it in a baseball case in Jack's room.