Big Lake Weekend

This weekend we took a big old family trip to Big lake. Our whole family, The Gabe's, Anna and Levi and Grammy and Pop. 9 kids and 7 adults, it was a big old family. We had a lot of fun and the kids had a lot of cousin time. There are TONS of pictures. There are also several activities I don't even have pictures of cause they're on Anna's camera, so maybe more of that later.


Here's Grammy riding the pink barbie scooter. Gabe rented it for 5 hours so we all took lots of turns riding it. It was pretty fun in a toned down motorcycle sort of way. I never got a picture of Gabe on it, but it would have been a good one :) I don't think anyone got a picture of me on there either, but I was able to take all the kids for a ride which they loved. Isabella even got to ride down to the store with me to buy salad dressing and TP, then we got to try to carry 3 things back, not knowing the seat lifted up into a storage compartment. We worked it out though.




Lots of sitting by the lake while the kids ran wild. Grammy and Gabe got the boys these big airplane gliders which lasted a lot longer than I thought they would. They threw those things until they fell apart. Then they got taped back together with bandaids (the only "tape" we had at the cabin) and played with til they fell apart again and again.
The girls got hula hoops, which they had fun with. Then later in the day after the boys had destroyed their planes, they started playing with the hula hoops, they had sooo much fun with them that there are tons of pictures.

fighting? What fighting? What would two 3 year olds, a 4 year old and a 5 year old (boys) have to fight about?At some point someone asked for binoculars, I think to watch the fish jumping in the lake. Faron carries some in the car, so we go them out and these 3 were so cute with them! they are 3,3 and 2.




Faron took the bigger kids on a paddle boat ride. I was trying to pretend like it wasn't happening, since I am anti drowning, but they paddled over to where we were, so I had to take pictures. No one fell in the water, though I did hear about a close call or two.


Arianna was not happy about being left behind.Isabella wearing Pop's hat.


The sunset light was so yummy that I had to take some pictures of the kids.
Here's Sophia




Isabella
Xander could give me one serious face at a time, then had to do something silly
for this one he is kicking, see his concentrating tough guy face.I also took some 6 month belly shots for Anna. This one is my favorite, if I had studio, this would be one of my samples hanging on the wall.

Nikolas is waving, which is a new trick he just learned. Faron said, "Say 'Hi' to Mama" so he waved.
Happy family



Isabella and Pop

Lots of running and frolicking



We tried to get a group shot of all 9 kids, this is the best we got.



The girls are walking down the isle, to marry PopHere he is waiting at the alter, as instructed.
Kole had a good time at the lake too.

Attack Uncle Faron/Papa
Gabe and Kaleb

In front of the cabins was a patch of big trees. We took the kids over there to run through the "forest". Look how tall the trees are!Faron put Xander up in the tree, which then turned into boosting all the boys up