Easter Weekend

The wedding bells rang, in form of invitations, and the family gathered in Draper Utah to attend my nephews marriage.

 My brother and his wife have six children, five of them are married with children of their own and this wedding, completes the last of them.

With his entire family in attendance 

Plus all five of my parents children 

As well as some of our own, we had quite the group.

We kicked off the weekend with the wedding Friday morning, luncheon in the afternoon and the reception in the evening.

Following the festivities, Saturday began with a bridal shower for my sisters daughter in law who is expecting their first child. 

All the girls left their husbands in care of the children

 so  we could eat, play games

and watch Samatha open her gifts.

 Afterwards, we gathered in the park where we played kickball. It was a full on family affair, no one was exempt. 

We later had a surprise 60th birthday party for our eldest brother Sam.

Now, as a kid, he has always wanted to be Tarzan. Not a cape crusader leaping tall buildings in a single bound like most young boys.

Not our Sam, he was all about Tarzan swinging through the trees, hanging with the apes and bellowing the Tarzan call.

As close as he came to living his dream was building his own plane as an adult and finding his freedom in the sky amongst the clouds. Can't rightly say if he wears a loin cloth while doing so, but I do know he enjoys flying his plane.

With this in mind, my siblings and I orchestrated a party for him calling it TarSam.

Our son and his family couldn't attend, but he did manage to make these shirts and hat for him, which were designed by our youngest brother.

My sister gave him the appropriate party costume. Once he put it on, he immediately got into character and gave us a hearty Tarzan call.

Later that evening, most of us met at our hotel where a few competitive rounds of Code Names were played.

While others watched the basketball game,

The smart ones of the group knew when to quit and packed it in early.

Our flight left on Sunday so there was no church service for us but the time spent with family was a pretty good trade off.