Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Longest Post in the World.

Hello friends. It's been a while. I don't know how any of you with three kids have any time to do ANYTHING. Maybe it's just a baby thing. I hope it's just a baby thing because I seriously can't find the time to do anything that isn't kids or cleaning or cooking!

Aaron told me to stop posting pictures because no one will read it if it's too long. Well, it is long. But don't worry, I'm not putting in much text so pretend it's a picture book.
In July my side of the family had a reunion at Lake Siskyou in Northern California.

Nana and Grandpa Duck playing with 9 out of the 11 grandkids.


The kids were really into catching these enormous bullfrog tadpoles. Hence the hand in the bucket. They didn't usually survive after being handled by little kids ;)
Brett and Luke tadpole hunting.
Besides hanging out at the lake, we visited the head-quarters of the Sacramento river. It comes out of the bottom of a hill!
My brothers and their wives. And one baby. Twelve of us are missing, not counting Nana and Grandpa Duck.
Search drinking the water. People come and fill huge water bottles with this water because it's so pure and tasty! Oh, and it's free.
There is a Great Grandma behind these three chunks!
The cute photogenic girl cousins :) They actually like to have their picture taken. Imagine that!

Gone fishin'.

Cutie boy.
I guess the older kids got a little bored :)
But the younger kids were just fine.
Some of us did some caving. I mean spelunking to be exact.
My bro Jake and his family. I didn't have a pic of Dave and his family. They just left for Germany for three years! We'll miss them lots :(
A rare family picture!
Three cousins.




Five cousins.

Dad and kid.

Huh? What's going on here? What's up cuz?
Grandpa Duck fishing in the drift boat with two of his grandkids.
We rented a patio boat one day and did some jumping and diving!

And floating around...



This is how Baby B spend his time at the lake. Happy as a... uh... crawdad.

The kids probably caught at least a hundred little frogs. They were everywhere!
Search and Destroy even learned how to kayak all by themselves!
but it's much more fun with a cousin in the boat!


Next post... going to Chico to visit Aaron's fam. All car trips should involve getting kicked in the face by your baby brother while trying to sleep. Take that!
The end. 32 pictures. Good night.

4 comments:

Carl and Amber said...

Logan would have been in HEAVEN with those frogs!

The Jonas Family said...

Fun to see your growing family! I just finally posted on my blog too!

Emily Wing said...

Wow! What a summer! Don't you wish it could go on forever?

Nicki said...

It's nice to have you back! Three kids is crazy, isn't it? Looks like you've been having a great summer!