Easter in North Carolina

This year for Easter we fortunate to go down to North Carolina and visit cousins. John-David has one brother in Durham and another in Lewisville. We first stopped at the Durham Black's house. We toured their awesome house in the trees and then went to beautiful gardens. My niece Sadie had sent her "Flat Stanley" to come and visit us so you will see pictures of him throughout the post.

Duke Gardens

Pictures of the cousins along a pond.

I don't think I have ever see lavender tulips like this.

They were absolutely beautiful.

The kids were feeding ducks and this thing by the pond.

I am not sure what this is.

We only stayed at their house for a day. After Duke Gardens, the caravan moved to the other cousin's house in Lewisville. The kids were loving every minute playing with cousins and got along so well with each other. Despite the fact there wasn't a boy to play with, his girl cousins really stepped up to the plate. Some of them even rough housed with him!

We went to Old Salem which a settlement form the 1700's but it

was absolutely pouring rain so we didn't get to do anything other than go into

the bakery and get some free cookies.

While we were there, we celebrated my niece Eliza's 7th birthday. We went to u-Bounce and had a blast. None of the pictures really turned. Jackson was in heaven boxing with these huge gloves on. All the kids loved the huge slides and bounce houses that they got to go in to.

I think this was the most fun John-David had had in a long time.

He was running around the place like a big kid.

Since it was Easter weekend we hit an Easter Egg hunt their ward Primary put on.

The kids after the hunt. I think they were happy with the results.

Family snap shot at the Primary Easter Egg Hunt

The Cousins with their loot.

We also had a family Easter Egg Hunt that afternoon. The kids went on a walk while the moms hid the eggs. We put all their baskets on the driveway for the start line.

What's an Easter without Kelsey having a bucket on her head?

Reason why we drove 8 hours for this:

To be with cousins!

I wanted an action shot of Jocey hunting for eggs. Instead I got the,

"Mom, hurry and take this so I can get back to finding eggs" look.

This is a picture we took right before church.

It was a little bright so everyone is squinting.

We meant to take a picture of all the cousins before church but we forgot.

This is the after church photo. Everyone is not as fresh looking.

Bryce is down right annoyed.

A house with 4 girls is going to have very girly helmets.

That didn't work for Jackson. But don't worry, nothing a little

tin foil won't solve. Thank goodness for Uncle Richard.

John-David and Uncle Doug helped Uncle Richard build in a fir pit in

their awesome backyard. We had to test out the final product with

a marshmallow roast.

Bryce and Tabetha enjoyed theirs.

It was seriously such a perfect little vacation. Thanks for all the fun North Carolina Blacks!!!!