Ellis Family Reunion

We haven't gone to our Harding reunion for a couple of years, but the last couple of years our Ellis Reunion has been really fun.  We saw Tiff's, Landon's, Joe's, Rachel's, Liz's, Sharon's, Jake's, Janelle and Seth's families.  Mark and Carol and Diane and Marty were the only Ellis generation there.  My parents are on their mission and we got to call them to wish my Dad a happy birthday.  We got there midnight on Tuesday.  Diane's girls camp were up there, so we crashed in the A-frame for the first two nights so that our tent wasn't in the way.  I got to take kids out in the kayaks for a while and I went swimming with Ada.  She's such a cute little fish.  She would spend sun up to sun down in the water no matter how cold.  I tried letting my kids put on their own sun screen and they all missed the triangle under their eyes and ended up with cheek sun burns.  Jer was the game activities director this time.  All the kids wanted to play games with him.  They loved playing Hogwarts Battle and Arkham horror.  I played giant Uno with kids on the beach and Janelle took a turn with the kids by the camp fire.  Janelle was amazing.  She slept with Ada, Evelyn and Emma in the treehouse and then in the cabin the next night.  These kids sure love their Aunt.  My brother Seth came up for the day and we watched Mars, Saturn and Jupiter during a meteor shower.  Sharisse came out and chatted with us on the way to the bathroom and the next day she was telling everyone that we knew lots of stars.  Jer got out his green laser and wowed everyone with it's coolness. Our son, Seth, peed the bed twice and after hand washing his bedding twice we went and bought some diapers for the rest of the week.   We came home last night.  I'm elbow deep in laundry and we've got camping gear all over the house, but I thought I'd want to blog first.  I've been telling kids that they have to play in the back yard because I don't want friends in the house until I get camp stuff put away.  How long do you think that will last?  Last time I tried kicking them out Sam had to come in and tell me a story every 5 minutes.

Jer, Ada, and Seth

Sam and Ronin

Janelle and Ada

Clara and Sam

Sam, Sharisse

Ronin and Rachel

Ada, Janelle and Evelyn

Ronin, Abby, Sam, Kat, Clara

Ellen, Evelyn, Ada

Ada, Clara, Kat, Evelyn

Sam, Ronin, Trevor

Diane, Katie, Ellen, Landon

Ada, Ronin, Landon and Kat, Sam, Abby, Lance, Trevor, Clara

Evelyn, Ellen

Jer and Seth

Sam

Evelyn and Daddy

Vivien

Jeremy, Benjamin and Seth

Seth and Benjamin have a rough boy relationship.  They like to do very boy things together and then usually end up fighting somewhere in there.  One time they were on the raft with Theo and all three of them were pulling on the anchor chain yelling, "Fee, Fii, Foo, Fum!"