Life with the Ball's: Easter 2019

We lucked out with beautiful weather on Easter Sunday. Hooray! It was warm and sunny on Saturday too so we were able to get plenty of yard work done in between all the lacrosse games. Parker was invited to his best friend's house for an Easter party and egg hunt and he was shocked and thrilled that it wasn't on a Sunday or during a lacrosse game so he could actually go. When I dropped him off at the party I had to sneak a few pictures because their yard was so beautiful and huge and gave me motivation to work on our yard.....don't worry though, the motivation is completely gone now!

You can't tell how huge this water feature is but it's in the center of their yard with a bridge going across it. It was amazing!

Meanwhile back in our yard I had to snap a picture of these boys in front of this beautiful bush. The flowers are so heavy that it makes the branches droop.

We had to be at church at 9am for choir rehearsal which the boys weren't thrilled about so this picture was as good as it got. Marcus would only cooperate if I let him hold the orange juice in the picture. Insert eye roll here.

Easter Dinner 2019

This year we had a couple families over for dinner that we wanted to get to know better, and then invited several other families to join us for dessert and the egg hunt. I really liked this setup because it's so much easier feeding a small group, although both families had five kids so our group was still plenty big!

The teenagers "interacting" with each other

We hid more than 300 plastic eggs in the yard and enjoyed watching the teenagers struggle to find the golden money egg. We finally caved and gave them a hint. It was hiding in the roof of the paddle board shed.

Filling the eggs was no small task. Randy and the boys got caught up on General Conference while they filled eggs and ate candy.

And Ethan's hover board arrived in the middle of all the chaos. I fell off it and thought I broke my foot it hurt so bad. They are harder than they look!