Family Reunion - Take 3

Aunt Alexa and Ava - wow lots of As :-)

Friday night for dinner we had a local restaurant all to ourselves. The restaurant is only open for breakfast and lunch, so we were able to have the whole thing just for us...which is a good thing since we tend to take over whatever place we're at! We are a big and loud family. It's great...a little overwhelming if you're a first timer though :-) For dinner we ate some very yummy and famous hotdogs. Travis seemed to enjoy his dinner!
Mom brought the reunion picture album that she made years ago. It was the first time in several years that she had brought it. The 3rd generation had a lot of fun looking at the pictures of little us. The clothes...the hair...what we were thinking no one knows!!

(L to R: Travis, Danny, Jimmy, Jon, and Jill)

Ellie and Nicole were having fun eating and chatting when I snapped this picture...but since Ellie was chewing they decided that they needed a new picture...
Where they were BOTH chewing!! The goofs...I think Jack was trying to get in on the chewing fun too with his little toy :-)
One of the "kids" tables.

(Clockwise: Jackie, Harry, Sam, David)

Thelma, Grandma, and Jenny catching up.
The other side of the restaurant.
Alexa having fun with Jack.
Jon and Jill taking a closer look at the old photos. It was SO good to have Jon back.

Family Reunion - Take 2

It's taken me a while to get back to posting pictures from the reunion...blame whatever sickness totally decommissioned me all week!

I'm finally feeling better and relaxing in front of the Olympics. Gotta love all the sports...I've already watch soccer, fencing, badminton, volleyball (indoor and beach), women's weightlifting, several different kinds of rowing...gotta love it!! :-)

GO USA!

Now, back to the reunion pictures...

Here's a bit more visiting on Friday afternoon at the pool.

The pool area was rather loud and warm, so there was visiting that happened in the hotel lobby. Here are Aidan and Davis meeting each other for the first time. They are very close in age and seemed to hit it off.
Grandma arrived to join in the visiting. First time she'd been at a reunion in a long time. Hannah got in on the vising too.

Ok, so this really isn't the best picture of me...but look how cute Jack is? And this was what happened a lot of times when I got a baby during the weekend...they fell asleep. Mom said I must be very boring...I decided I was just very soothing! :-)
Meet Davis...you couldn't really see his face in the other picture.

He looks SO much like his daddy!

Can you tell this was the reunion of the children? I think we had about 12 under the age of 13 and of those 7 of them were 5 and under!

This picture was actually taken by Davis. :-)

Davis and Aidan were such a cute little pair!
Meet one of the newest members of the family (not counting Mia who was to young to make it to the reunion)...Ava.

What a little cutie...held by a beautiful young lady :-)
Aidan is so good with little babies. Perfect big brother to Jack and perfect big cousin to Ava. Jack snacking on Nanny's necklace.

Family Reunion - Take 1

Jill and I arrived at the reunion on Thursday. We were both SOOO tired and in need of a nap. Unfortunetly the nap didn't happen...see our sad no nap faces? We did end up going to Red Lobster for dinner and had very yummy drinks and sea food, so that helped.

Friday the reunion started with lunch with Grandma...then it was back to the hotel to visit and spend time in the pool as people started arriving. Jack, being one of the cutest things alive, was the center of much of the chatting :-) He WAS SUCH a good little guy through the whole reunion. He was content and smiley most all the time. Here he is getting some lovin' from Teresa and Travis. HOW CUTE?!?! :-)
Ellie is a genius of a mother...raising two wonderful boys!! She had the brilliant idea to get Aidan a little life jacket, then she didn't have to worry much about him in the pool. Besides jumping in the pool he took a few turns in the hot tub.
Danny joined Aidan and the boys relaxed in the hot tub.
There were plenty of people playing in the pool too. Isn't Hannah's new suit cute?? I love that it's a little dress.


Back to baby Jack...This is his rock star hair. Ok, I'm not sure it get's any cuter than this!!
What a face!
A bunch of folks hanging in the hot tub.
Jill, Steph, and Ellie hanging in the pool.

Stay tuned...more pictures to come...just don't have time now! :-)