Family Reunion at Newport Beach, Oregon

  My family was able to arrange a family reunion this Fourth of July weekend since the last time we were all together was for my sister Alex's wedding about three years ago.  We were happy to finally get together.  We went to Newport, Oregon.  Half of the family shared a house and the rest of rented out a row of four townhouses.  We stayed in the townhomes, and it was a really great place for us to stay.  We didn't realize it was right next to a park when we booked them.  That really helped keeping all the kids entertained.  Avery was very excited to see Addison again and kept checking with us that she would be there.  Addison slept with Avery and Harper most of the time except for the night Harper was driving everyone crazy.  We also had a great time trying to get three little boys in a picture together.  Hudson, Logan, and Luke were all one at the time.  I took a ton of pictures, so this is just the first of what we'll probably end up being a total of three posts.

Addison, Avery, and Harper sleeping on the pull out couch.

Here's what they looked like in the morning.

Hudson and Logan.  I am not sure how they got Logan laughing, but once he got started he didn't stop for a while.

We tried to get Luke in there, but we got him with his beloved blanket and sippy cup.

So here's probably the best picture of Hudson, Luke, and Logan from that attempt.

Logan was so hilarious.

Luke putting on Daryl's shoes.

Here's Luke all dolled up for church Sunday morning.

Here's the townhomes where we stayed with Mom and Dad in the red door, Phil and Heather in the yellow door, Chris and Alex in the purple door, and us in the green door.  I tried to place everyone from quietest to loudest.

Harper, Sam, Emery, Avery, and Addison

Phil, Aidan, and Maddux

Luke wanted to play ball with Maddux.

Maddux is such a good cousin.  He played with Luke for a good while.

Here's Avery at the top of the park.  There's a giant tube slide in this pirate ship.

Here's the bottom of the slide.  I got Luke to go down with me once and he was not happy. Harper never went down it once.

Mackenzie

Addison

Hudson showing amazingly good balance.

Emery

Harper