On the 3rd day of our weekend long extravaganza we went to church and then back to my parents’ house for some more yummy food.  We certainly did have a lot of food during our extravaganza!

Family picture (taken by my cousin Jon) before some people had to start heading home.

We tried to get Danielle and Logan to pose for picture.  It was somewhat successful.

Danielle loved Brady!

Later on in the evening we headed back over to our house.  Since we hadn’t eaten nearly enough all weekend we ate again.

After we ate Hailey and Anika had fun going down the slide into the little pool.

Then we went to go watch some fireworks.  They loved it!

Mike, Matt, Ellie and Brady waiting for the fireworks to start.

Matt holding a nervous Brady during the fireworks.

The next day everyone else had to head back home.  Some of us went on a trip to Chuck E Cheese for some fun and- of course- more food.

Hailey and Anika

Beka and Rich played many rounds of basketball.

The grandfathers had to play a few rounds too.

Anika and Hailey enjoyed seeing Chuck E Cheese.

It was a weekend full of family and fun!!  Can’t wait to do it again next year!

We spent the morning and early afternoon talking, laughing and just having a great time.  Then it was time for some more food!

The pretty set up.

Lots of food!

Matt and Rich grilling the meat.

Danielle waiting happily for some food.

Ellie, Matt, my Mom, my Dad, Mike

Uncle Ralph, Uncle Dave, Dave, Bethel, Aunt Gladys, Lucas

Vicki, Danielle, Bill, Beka

Aunt Ruth, Rich, Melissa, Brad, Me

Caleb, Dan, Jon, Leah

After we ate the guys played some horseshoes.

Anika, Danielle, Hailey

Bubble fun

Hailey, Uncle Matt and Anika

More to come soon…

Why does it seem like I am always a month behind on my posting?  I try so hard to keep up but I just always fall behind. Anyways- over the 4th of July weekend we had a fun family extravaganza at my parents’ house.  I took a bunch of pictures of the fun filled weekend so I am going to break them up into a few posts.

On Friday night everyone came in from out of town to stay either at my parents’ house or at our house. Everyone came over here for dinner and we had a great time having everyone at our house.  I didn’t take any pictures the first evening

On Saturday morning we got up and Hailey and her cousin Anika went outside to play while we waited for everyone to get ready to go over to my parents house for some famous omelets made by my Uncle Dave.

Hailey and Anika enjoying the swing set.

Hailey was so excited to have someone to play with in her house.

I tried to get them to pose for a picture, but it didn’t work out too well.

Having fun on Hailey’s little slide.

Not sure exactly what they were planning here…

Sharing a cousin moment.

Once everyone who stayed at our house was all ready to go, we went over to my parents’ house and had a very filling breakfast.  It was delicious!  We all ate until we couldn’t eat any more.  Then some of the fun activities began.

Hailey enjoying an ice pop.

Rich and Brad hanging out next to the pool.

Listening to Vicki telling something interesting.

Uncle Dave told Hailey and Anika he was going to jump into the baby pool with them.

The weather was perfect for everyone to enjoy some pool time.

Hailey and Aunt Ellie going for a swim.

Caleb and Anika

Logan enjoying the baby pool.

More to come soon…

Last weekend was Brooke’s graduation party.  It’s so hard to believe that she’s already done with high school.  The years went by way too fast!  I spent most of the party keeping an eye on Hailey while she played on the playground and went swimming, so I didn’t get many pictures of Brooke.  Thankfully Brooke’s mom got some good pictures so I’m going to post her pictures.

Brooke with Aunt Julie, Uncle Chris and cousins David and Dayna

Brooke with Uncle Nick, Aunt April and cousin Joel.

Brooke with Uncle Joe

Brooke with my parents

Brooke and Rich

And now for the pictures that I got:

Hailey loved playing in the lake

Us