Easter Weekend!

Well, I'm busy this week preparing for Easter weekend. For the past 30 years we have gotten together with our friends from Michigan. We moved to Indiana when I was 3 and my sister was 5 years old. Since then our friends whom were previously our neighbors in Michigan have come so we can spend the Easter weekend together. It started out as just our family of 4 and their family of 5 and then 6 years later turned into 10 when my brother was born. It has grown to 23 this year between the marriages, children and boyfriend/girlfriends we've added along the way. This includes 7 young children, 5 of which are 4 and under. We all divide up between my house, my sister's house and my parents house. They usually all arrive on Thursday evening although a few will not be arriving until Friday evening this year. All the Mom's will head out on Friday morning for pedicures and manicures and most likely some lunch before returning home to relieve the Dad's from the little ones so they can go have some free time. One tradition we have is on Saturday we take all the kid's to the Easter Bunny to get their picture taken with him. We squeeze all the kids into one picture and get enough copies for everybody. I'm looking forward to meeting the newest addition to the group Ty whom was born in October. It's always great to get together with the Richardson Crew as it always seems like you've never really been apart, it's like we always just pick right up where we left off.