Next we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Seibert's house for the main event.
Mama hit up a church garage sale and brought home about 20 new books for everyone. Papa found two Taller girls who were eager to cuddle in and hear about the Magic School bus.
On Saturday, we went over to the Czartowski's to swim in their awesome indoor pool. It was pretty rowdy with 7 kids and only 4 adults, but everyone that went in made it out in one piece. Aunt Elizabeth captured some of the excitement. You'll have to check their blog when they post the pictures. (Please don't post any embarrassing photos of mama, Uncle Kevin!)
On Sunday morning, everyone woke up nice and early and in need of a cuddle. Fiesty as always, June didn't want to share her mama with anyone else.
Luckily, Annalise didn't hold a grudge and still bestowed mama with some special kisses.
Since June's been sick, she hasn't been eating much. But she was pretty happy to thrown most of this great breakfast on the floor.
We all got cleaned up and headed to church to celebrate something really huge- Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Seibert's 60th wedding anniversary. And they have alot to show for it- 6 kids (plus wives and husbands), 19 grandkids, and 19 great grandkids (we think- it's hard to keep track of numbers anymore).
The Doug Seibert family got a picture- our first complete since Juner's baptism, when Tessa was just a bump in Aunt Elizabeth's belly.
And we tried to get a good shot of the four of us.
The Tallers cleaned up real nice-like too.
Mama made Juner's wear this big dress that she got from cousins Andy and Christina. I loved it and insisted several time that week that juner put on her "princess dress." June, who was short on sleep and hungry after Mass, did not feel the same affection for the dress.
Poor Gugger. Lucky for her, the dress was too big to fit in the car seat, so she got to change out of it for the second half of the party.
We headed to the Ramada in for brunch and managed to fit the whole family on one loooooong table.
My second cousin Corey and I found each other and decided to sit beside each other. We were both very well behaved and were only reprimanded because we kept sticking our fingers and cars into our water glass.
As usual, the aunts and uncles turned the meal into an opportunity to spoil their nieces and nephews with junk. Uncle Jim took me through the line and I came back with three different colors of jello desserts. Annalisey got a big powdered doughnut.
Poor Juner fell asleep in the car, but had to be woken up. Poor kid just needed a nap.
Tessa "Smiles" Seibert showed no sign of slowing down and smiled all weekend long.
When it came time to open presents, I wanted to help. They said I could, but only if we posed for a picture first.
Congratulations Grandma and Grandpa!
Finally, here's a short video on how to feed 7 kids at the same time. Grandma and Grandpa need to get a bigger house. We had to eat in shifts, though I spotted some of the adults sneaking pizza in the kitchen.