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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Happy 90th Birthday PawPaw!

This past weekend, our little Cruthirds family took a trip down to Kerrville to spend time with the BIG Cruthirds family to celebrate PawPaw's 90th birthday! The Cruthirds Family is quite a large family and we always have a great time when we all get together.
Paw Paw and Grandma (who passed away last year) had 7 children. L-R: Richard (Pierson's Pop/Ryan's dad), Marsha, Debbie, Paw Paw, Cyndi, Stephen and Candy. Not pictured is Uncle Les, who has also passed away. From here......

those 7 got married and had their own children...

and then those children got married....

and had their own kids which has gotten the Cruthirds family to the magnificent size that it is! Obviously this family is still growing and at a rapid pace. Every time we are able to all get together, there seems to be atleast one new baby making their debut.

Here is our part of the Cruthirds family.Cody (Ryan's brother) and his wife Gretchen, Richard and Nina (Pop and Lita), me and Pierson and Drew (Ryan's youngest brother).

Our little family seems so small compared to the rest of the group! Of course, Pierson doesn't want to have anything to do with family pics right now.

Eating some of the FANTASTIC food that Pop and Uncle Cody cooked!

Ryan and Cody being silly with Lita

Checking out the newest cousin, Benjamin.

Brooke, Kasey and Gracelyn made sure Pierson already felt part of the crew!

Adelaide was such a little helper making sure Pierson was walking up the hill safely.

Pierson loved getting attention from her cousins. Cousin Megan was pretty good at entertaining the little princess who didn't have her nap yet :)

Pierson also loved getting passed around to all of "aunts". Here she is with Aunt Candy.

and then Aunt Marsha (who later was able to finally get Pierson to take a little siesta)

She always has a good laugh with her Uncle Cody

Looking at the beautiful hill country where her daddy grew up

Uncle Drew and cousin Rachel sporting the family shirts for the event

On Sunday, before we had to head back to Waco, Pierson was able to spend some quality time with the family at the house.

She was having such a wonderful time with her Lita and Uncle Drew

Lita trying to squeeze in just a little bit more time with Pierson

And Pop walking little P out to the car and making sure she got in one last hug before getting in the car. Pierson did great the entire weekend and had so much fun with ALL the family. The weather was wonderful and what special memories we were able to make. Happy 90th Paw Paw!

2 comments:

  1. how fun that looked!! Pierson looks like she gets so much lovin' when visiting family!! YAY!!! :)

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  2. Good times! Good times! It was so great to see everyone and the kickball game at the end topped off the day perfectly! Pierson gets cuter and cuter! Love all the pics! Love ya! Steph

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