Fun Family Labor Day Weekend

Well this last weekend was a great weekend as we were privileged to have visits from lots of family. Edward, our nephew got baptized this weekend, so Edward, Katie, Andrew, and of course Jessica & I were all together with our respective families. It was a fun-filled weekend with a lot of great visiting. We were sad that Jan and Mary and Mom weren't able to make it with their families, but enjoyed the time that the rest of us had together. Here are all the pictures. The first group is of the kids at the baptism on Saturday. I wasn't quick enough to get a picture of Edward, so I'll have to just wait and get a copy from someone else.

Next are pics of Mallory, Ellie, & Cora. We tried to get a picture of all three of them plus Katrina and Lauren, but there was always someone missing. They are 5 of the 6 girls all born in 2007 in our family. It was sure fun though to see how each one of their personalities are different. Their voices are all distinctly different...Ellie talks in 3rd person all the time, "Ellie needs to eat", etc... Cora & Lauren have raspy voices that sound like they are smokers, Katrina is very soft spoken and you have to get really close to hear her, and Mallory has this very high pitched cute voice! They are all different, but yet they all had so much fun together...minus the times that they all wanted the same toys!


Drew and Sam were quite the partners in crime...or play! They had the best fun making these concoctions of pop cans and our left over food with tape and grass and anything else they could get their hands on.

Then, all the cousins loved having Einstein & Stella there. The Felkers brought Stella and Einstein was in 7th heaven. The kids had fun taking turns in the dog house...sadly they probably stunk like crazy afterwards as it's been a long time since I've cleaned it out and washed the dog bed and blanket, but they didn't seem to mind. The dogs had so much fun that after everyone left, Einstein was so depressed that he didn't even eat his favorite liver treats!

Then there was plenty of outside time for the kids and the weather was perfect for it! The little girls even tried to play some football, but didn't like it too much!

After the baptism on Saturday, I found Kayley reading to the little girls. She was having so much being the big cousins to the girls and to also hang out with the bigger cousins, Olivia and Elizabeth.

This picture is to show that 1) My brother Edward is a goofball and a great Dad as he willingly plays with the kids in putting on some dress up gloves! And 2) to show that Mallory is just like her Dad in more than just her looks. I tried to catch it, but Edward has an owl eye. He can close his left eye without the right eye even moving and sometimes he does it when he not even noticing it. Well, Mallory was eating something a bit sour and when she would make her sour face, her owl eye would show threw just like her Dad's and it was even her left eye! Like Father, like daughter!

These are a couple of photo shoots of the girl cousins. They were all being cute on the couch...once again, Katrina didn't want to get in.

Photo shoot #2...

Then, on Sunday the girls all went into mine and Nick's room to watch Cinderella. About half way through the movie I noticed almost all the boys had gravitated to watch the movie too. I took a snap shot for proof. If you notice the boys...Ross is smiling as he's on a new kick to be proud of doing feminine things lately. Matt smiles just cause he's sweet and cooperative. Both Edward and Judson hid...Edward is hiding his face and Judson took off as you can see his shoes in the lower right corner of the pic. It was funny! It was a great weekend and of course wasn't long enough!