March 31st, 2013

For March 31st, to celebrate both Easter and my brother’s birthday, we had a really big family get together. It really was special.

My Uncle Rodrigo (Igo) from New Jersey at the time visited my mom in Montreal about 10 years ago. He told her that we had family out here in Mesa when they were talking about me living in Tempe.

A few years later, I think in 2004, we contacted the Mesa family and got together. Over the next 9 years, with Brandee getting married, Jaime and I getting married, and Pat getting married, our family just grew so much. I’ve been trying to do more family related things this year so we got everybody together for Easter.

Instead of the traditional Ham, we ordered a whole pig! It was really nice using our patio to comfortably accommodate everyone.
Since we had two cameras going, we have two sets of pictures and the timestamps are off (Uncle Dave’s camera is set for California timezone). Putting all the pictures in one album would not put them in order of when they were actually taken.