a f(r)amily easter.

easterdip5 F(r)amily: a group of friends so close they are practically family; typically found in a military community or a small town.

Every year we do 3 holidays with the framily: Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Easter. This year, we met for Easter dinner at the Pfau's. It was different this year-for the better-because instead of crying over baby dolls, the babies we old enough to easter egg hunt & break cascarones! We also had my aunt & her significant other, Esther & Culley, come in from Texas to eat Aunt Betty Lou's Rolls and take in the North Carolina pine pollen. Here are a few shots from dinner this year--enjoy!

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Yay for juice cups!

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And tummy tickles!

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Sometimes I wonder how my mom lives with his crazy eyebrows, but they make us all laugh, so that must be how.

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Eggs, eggs EVERYWHERE!

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After dinner led to some crazy cascarones (a Mexican tradition known here as confetti eggs) & toddler wrestling!

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Anabelle has nothing but hugs & kisses after wrestling her momma!

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attack of the turkey legs.

Big Jerry plays with the little appetizer forks as his turkey legs flop around his head.

We had a record setting crowd of 29 people at our house for Thanksgiving this year. And while I thought it would keep mom from making her Thanksgiving hats...it didn't. Instead, we got some awesome turkey legs to wear on our head. We had family and friends, what we call the framily, come out to enjoy the day.

Annabelle loves her Warnie.

Dad and Culley taking out the last turkey from the frier. Nothing beats a fried turkey.

Lumberjack Jerry and Lumberjack Wyatt play on their iPhones. You can find this scene anywhere when you're with them.

We had fortune crescents, like fortune cookies but with things to be thankful for. Big Jerry ate his on accident and someone was thankful for William Pfau.