Seibert/Meyer party-June.

It is very slow to upload pictures at Grandma Cooper's, so we'll continue to be very far behind on our blogging. But here's the one's we got uploaded tonight.

Tessa spent most of Christmas with her very favorite person- Grandpa!

We were lucky enough to get some snow and mama and Henry headed outside for 90 minutes of fun, despite the fact that we no longer own any appropriate snow gear. Henry didn't even notice and mama just layered on everything Grandma had. Grandpa has all of Uncle Kevin's big metal toy trucks out in the barn and Henry spent the whole time plowing the snow with a bulldozer and moving snow between dump trucks. He only came in when a snowball fight was initiated and he got hit in the face.

Uncle Jim spent some time playing with our little camera and got this action shot? Is anyone holding on to Tessa?

A nice shot of Aunt Jenni and Uncle Jim (Uncle Kevin, you're so weird!).

On Monday, we had family pictures taken (though they are already out of date). The kids were so good that Aunt Jenni took them all to McDonald's for Happy Meals and to play in the playground. We didn't get any pictures because all the kids spent the whole time in the top of the playground.

Mama got this video of me dancing, which has been my favorite thing to do this whole vacation. It really brings the house down.
On Monday night, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Elizabeth played host to the annual Seibert/Meyer party. If you're not familiar, Grandma and Grandpa Seibert were friends with Jeff and Jane Meyer when they were young. Between the two couples, they had 9 kids. Add 6 spouses and 13 kids (and 1 on the way) and you've got a party. There were only 4 people missing from the party. Here's 10 of the kids, from youngest to oldest- Tessa, me, Andy, Heidi, Oliver, Annalise, Henry, Natalie, Evie, and Cole.

Henry loved being with the older kids and was very happy to be included in the 4 and 5 year old secret tent club.

Evie did a great job supervising the meyhem in the basement.

Andy playedd it safe and stuck to this hamper.

Annalise got a picture of mama taking a picture. And Jack shows off some daredevil moves. He's 4 months younger than me and only about 18 pounds, but certainly proved himself my equal. More than once, I tried to take something from him, only to find that he wasn't going to give anything up without a fight.

We didn't have many more pictures of the party because the kids spent all evening downstairs while the adults tried to spend most of their time upstairs catching up with old friends.

Mama did get this video of me dancing with Miss Jane, who was nice enough to continue helping me jump for a long time after we started.