[loooooong post. lots of photos]

And, here we break again from the England photos so I can tell you about our Easter before too much time passes.

Not just the day of Easter – but the whole weekend.

Full of family.

Andrew’s aunt/uncle/cousin/cousin’s boyfriend came over on Friday night for the weekend. Down from North/Central California.

Where people drive tractors.

I love the diversity in CA.

Anyway. Because Joe (and Andrew) had to work Sunday, we did our big Easter dinner Saturday night:

Ham, mashed potatoes, asparagus, beans (Andy making them below), cream-cheese+bacon jalapenos.

Good stuff….

Julie and her sister Debbie

Andrew’s cousin Sarah and her boyf Michael.
Michael goes to SLO (Courtney) …. but he does dairy, not beef. Sorry.

There were SO many people in the house. Air mattresses every where. Daniel actually slept in his truck Sat night.

True story.

We think Hazel might be part deer.

also, plenty of time for naps …

At some point during the day, Julie came to me and said, “Sarah looks so cute today, do you think you could take a picture of her and Michael?”

Um. OK.

So cute. Sarah is ridiculously photogenic. And she’s like 6′ tall and could totally be a model.

But she’s smarter than that.

Some pics of Sarah and her mamma too …

Sunday morning Julie and Debbie set out all the easter baskets for us kids … .

“kids” … when Andrew is going to be 28 in a few months.

oh, mothers …

Everyone went to church except me.

I was SUPPOSED to get to spend an hour with Andrew before he had to leave for work, and so let everyone else shower/get ready first. But then JUST when everyone was leaving for church, Andrew got a phn call saying he had to leave for work right then.

So, I was all alone Easter morning.

Don’t worry about me. I lived through it. Called my parents. Chased Hazel a bit. You know…

Sunday we went to Don Cuco’s for lunch (thanks Uncle Dave!) and then back for some relaxing and some hair cuts …

awesome.