You're standing on Jesus!

Joel has an enormous family.  He's 1 of 6 kids, and the only boy.  You can imagine how awesome it was to be the only girl marrying into that family.  Truly, his family is great though.  His family is also quite fertile.  Three of his sisters have 5 kids each.  Some quick math and you can see that's already 15 grandkids for his parents.  Add in our 2, plus another 2 and you get...19 grandkids.  Yep, fertile bunch.

So his family likes to get together for every most birthdays for the 19 grandkids.  The problem is that no one has a house big enough to hold everyone.  Our house is the largest and that's just sad.  Still, we all pile on top of each other to have family togetherness time.  It's exhausting stressful suffocating wonderful.  :)

Last night happened to be one of those birthday party get togethers.  It was for Joel's nephew, Nathan's 14th birthday.  Nathan's mom (Joel's sister), Annette and family live in BFE the Indianola area on a big huge acreage so there's a ton of land, but a small-ish house.  As usual, we all crammed in there, hoping everyone had showered recently.  I'm glad to say no one smelled.  Yea for us...and soap.

Because they have so much land, and it was the day before Easter, it was decided to have an Easter egg hunt.  One of Joel's many sisters went out to hide the eggs while Joel and I entertained the kids inside.  Instead of being enthralled by Joel and my skills, the kids just wanted to crowd around the front door waiting for the signal that the hunt to begin.  This of course meant that all the kids were falling and stepping all over each other.  At some point in all the raucous we heard a little voice scream, "NATHAN!  You're stepping on Jesus!"

After a moment of silence we realized that a Easter decoration showing Jesus rising from the dead had fallen off the front door and Nathan was stepping directly on Jesus' face.

Oops.

After saving Jesus from Nathan's shoe print, the hunt commenced and all was well.  Next year perhaps we'll put away the Jesus decorations before the kids take over the place.  Did I mention there are 19 of them?

Happy Easter all!