This year for Ruda Thanksgiving we started what will hopefully become a biannual tradition: we rented a big house in Sunriver. It was a lot of fun, especially for all the cousins—they sure love each other and play so well together! Things were a bit crazy with 7 kids 7 years old and younger (who’s been having all these babies anyway?), but the house offered lots of fun things to do: a hot tub, a pool table, ping pong, air hockey, and passes to a facility with a pool. It was also nice enough one day to go to a really cool park. I didn’t take a ton of pictures, and didn’t even get the ONE picture I really wanted to get: one of the baby boys, Edmund and Joshua, together. Fail. Oh well. That’s what happens when you have a 3 month old who’s going through a growth spurt and have to pump every 2 hours to keep up with him. Ugh.
Grandma was in heaven reading to all the big kids together out of her “Grandma Book.” The rhyme “Jello on a plate,” was all the kids favorite to do with motions.
All the adults got to play the “Redneck Game” together one afternoon. It’s a kick in the pants!
The big kids played lots of Candy Land and Labyrinth together. They also did lots of coloring and projects together.
Josh did a lot of laying around being cute and being held and doted on. Miriam is so sweet with babies!
Thank goodness for good weather so that we could get out of the house and get all the wiggles out!
We cooled down the hot tub so that the kids could play in it; by the final morning, it was pretty chilly, but Ben was gracious enough to stay in it and play with the kids for awhile.
The final night we made hot Apple Cider and had a movie for the kids. Unfortunately this was the closest thing to a picture of all the cousins together I took—and Josh isn’t even in it. Fail. We’re just going to have to do it again so that we can get that picture!
No comments:
Post a Comment