Robertson Family Reunion

 Crazy family time!  Well, of course it's going to be crazy when you have over 60 people in one house (with 3 bathrooms)... and 36 of them are 16 and under.  It's been fun though!  Loud, crazy, everything that you ever get from a family.  Between trying to get my kids to have enough sleep to not break down over the 4 day long reunion, keep Sammy away from all the various yummy foods that he sees (sick Sammy is the last thing I want), trying to keep an eye on the baby (some of the younger kids want to play with her, but don't quite understand about new babies), keep kids out of the pool when I'm not in it, keep them from drowning when I'm in it, play games with nieces and nephews, keep Ada from hitting when she's mad, keep my kids from getting bitten by mosquitos galore, dealing with Ada's finger burns from sparklers, and having both my kids get bitten by one of the two year olds in the crowd... we had our hands, arms, eyes and stomachs full.  It was a blast!  I had fun talking to all the moms, having John and Diane's family stay with us, and having Jacob, Emma, Lizzie, Amber, and Joseph stay the night and play games with us too.  Thanks all for the reunion!  Looking forward to next year... even if it takes me a year to recover from this one!

Loving his baby "Elelyn"

I think they'll be good buddies for sure... Ada will hold her for a total of a couple of seconds at a time... Sammy will hold her until I take her back.

Jer's favorite... getting ready for the pine wood derby. Unfortunately Jer's car didn't work out this year... and I haven't had time to make a car for myself since we had kids... but Ada wanted a horse car and Sammy wanted a train... I did Ada's and Jer did Sammy's.

91 year old Grandpa making his car too.

This years contestants

Yep... it's sideways, and I'm too lazy to turn it... this is Ada's "horse car".  It did pretty good, but definitely not built for speed.

And this picture was just for her expression... Love it!

I tried to get Sammy to show me his train and this is the best I got... but Jer did an awesome job and it got painted blue so that it's like Thomas the Tank Engine.

Grandpa and grandbaby number 33

Me and some of my friends... Ruth (niece), Riley (cousin), and Lizzie (niece)

The sleeping corner...

G-Gma and her name sake Jane Evelyn (91) and Evelyn Joy (1 month)

Gathering the crowd for our talent show

Swimming is always a big part of the reunion... at one point we had between 25-30 people walking the same direction in the pool, we got a current going that was strong enough that if you lifted your feet it would carry you for a while.

Marg and her kid fireworks... she helped them do snaps, snakes and sparklers!  Thanks Marg!  They loved it!

Cousin Amelia! Cutie!

One of the activities was to go hiking... originally we were going to go to Bridal Veil falls... so that's where Jer and I took the kids... and it turned out that they'd decided on Stewart Falls instead... so that's where they went... whoops!  I'm glad we didn't go on that on though... it was pouring rain for a little while and I was carrying Evelyn in my baby pouch. 

Ada was not afraid of just diving in... it was pretty late (8pm) so the water that is usually cold anyways because it's snow run off was colder because of being late and because it started to rain anyways.  (Notice... I'm actually in this picture too... I've got Evelyn in the sling and I'm trying to convice Sammy to walk in the water... as soon as the water went above his water shoes he was done... it was too cold for him.  But he did enjoy throwing rocks, that's a popular option.)

I just loved how the light was reflecting off the water as the sun went down.  Way neat!

She even sat down in the water... what a nut!

Love my family!

This is what Evelyn did the whole time!