How about a long weekend at a house in the cliffs of Wisconsin, on a golf course, with a swimming pool and 16 members of your family? YES! IT'S COUSIN'S VACATION!
There are so many photos from this weekend. They aren't in any particular order so forgive me if it appears we keep wearing the same clothes ;-)
There was art time - Gramma Mary and Hannah.
Adele and Abby.
Aunt Karen, Adele, Gramma, Hannah and Abby.
There was video game time - Uncle Dom, Ryan and Nick.
Hannah and Will watched, too.
Lots of us took naps, including Papa.
Movie watching.
Will, Hannah, Claire and Lucas.
Baby holding - Nick and Ryan.
Views and playing at Wyalusing State Park
Adele, Claire, Ryan's car seat, Hannah, Claire and Aunt Karen.
Practicing her gymnastics skills... she has some work to do :-)
Abby and Adele.
Caleb, Nick, Uncle Brian, Will and Uncle Dom.
Claire, Adele, Abby and Caleb.
front: Hannah, Nick holding Ryan, Lucas and Will.
back: Claire, Adele, Abby and Caleb.
Mommy and Ryan.
Ryan, Lucas and Hannah.
Nick, Will and Abby.
Caleb, Claire and Adele.
Karen suggested doing something special to remember Aunt Ann while our family had this time together. September is Uterine Cancer awareness month so it was a great idea to release 42 peach/orange balloons in memory of Aunt Ann. Peach is the cancer awareness color for uterine cancer and Ann would've been 42 on her birthday this year.
Brent was in charge of pictures during balloon release.
He did good :-) He even got a picture of each of the kids.
Caleb.
Abby.
Adele.
Nick.
Claire.
Lucas.
Hannah and Will.
Ryan.
The kids each had a clump of balloons and one each for Gramma Mary and Papa Richard.
It was calm and peaceful to watch the balloons float away on this beautiful evening.
We watched for about ten minutes before they were out of sight.
Lots of pool time!
Will, Lucas and Gramma.
Will.
Caleb and Nick.
Brent, Lucas, Caleb and Claire.
Secrets!
Lucas.
There were a lot of splashes off the diving board.
And a lot of contests to get BIG splashes!
Coffee on the deck - Papa, Brent and Ryan.
More naps - Uncle Dom. But this one was right in the middle of our Trivial Pursuit game :-)
Ryan played Trivial Pursuit on Daddy's team.
More gymnastics with Will and Hannah.
And some wrestling, too. 
The dancing, gymnastics, pool and wrestling tuckered this little girl out.
She fell asleep in the middle of supper. I didn't mind the snuggle time.
More baby-playing time.
Abby, Ryan, Aunt Jen.
Uncle Brian was in charge of the fire pit.
Lucas took this picture on my phone. In the pitch dark until the camera flash went off!
Nick, me, Will and Caleb.
Lucas, Nick, Hannah and Caleb.
Claire and Hannah.
Claire and Ryan.
Grandkids - 2013
front: Will, Lucas, Hannah
middle: Abby, Claire, Ryan, Gramma Mary, Papa Richard and Nick
back: Adele and Caleb
On our drive home, we stopped at Pikes Peak State Park.
Such a great weekend spent with family and making fun memories!
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