Back to School Family Parties

Margaret and Harry always have a party for the end of the summer / BACK TO SCHOOL events.  They have food of course, and then they always get the grand kids a card and some school supplies or money to buy some school supplies.  The kids all look forward to this and this year I actually had a kid going to school, so I was even more excited.  :) We had a buffet of delicious food, some socializing outside, jumping on the trampoline, and then Kelsey, Ava and Christian decided it was too hot so Grandma set up the water hose and they ran and danced through the showering hose. 

Here is a picture of all of the grand kids, minus our Sharon Rose, hanging out the windows of Pappy's school bus.  Grandma got one of these pics last year, so we decided to make it our annual tradition. :)

Below are some pics from the water shower thrown by Grandma too.

The kids really enjoyed this and they were SOAKED. Of course Grandma had them covered.  Great memories. :)

We also had our FIRST ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY with the Hunsberger's too, which at the moment consisted of Ryan, Brianna and THREE and Micah, myself and TWO.  We missed you mom and dad!!!  :)  Reece was also starting school and so we figured we should start the annual tradition, but instead of making food, we decided to eat out.  Crazy, I know, with FIVE kiddos, but actually it wasn't too bad. :) 

We met at Red Robin because the kids all love the balloons and then, they didn't get a balloon anyway, because they were out. :( 

One side of the table.  I just have to say, the boys were pretty lucky, right BRI?  They got the baby. . we got the four toddlers. :) Well, Bri and Ry shared Sofi, a little.  Below is the other side of the table. . .minus Micah. :)

Then we went outside to take some pictures of our BIG KIDS before they venture out into the HUGE world.  I posted a few of my favorites.

I love how their back packs are totally showing off their personalities. I love that they are so excited too. WHERE does time go?

Notice the background, yeah, Micah and Ryan were taking turns making sure they were in the pictures.  This was the best of the three kiddos so I used it.  Notice Micah waving and Ava and Christian are waving at their crazy dad.  Reece is ignoring his crazy uncle. :)  Micah had surprised Christian with his TRANSFORMERS back pack that day when he got home from work, because Christian was struggling so much with feeling left out.  He was ecstatic, so we allowed him to join in the pictures and excitement too. :)

Here they are Nana and Pappy. . .this one was for you.  All five of your babies. :)  A little of their personalities shining out of each of them in this very picture. . .just by their facial expressions. :)