Thomhouser: 08/01/2010

For eight years now my mom's side of the family has had a huge family reunion every other year. I have been lucky enough to attend them all and this latest one was completely awesome. We spent an entire week on the beach in Lincoln City, OR. The weather was awesome, it didn't ever get above 75 degrees.

Gabe had the time of his life. Between all the attention, all the kids to play with and all the outside time, he played hard and slept hard. He even fell asleep twice while eating lunch. Yes, I made sure to take the left over food out of his mouth before putting him down for his nap.

This year the reunion included an abundance of activities including, but not limited to:

a relay race
a kickball game
a scavenger hunt (amazing race style complete with the traveling gnome)
a sandcastle building contest
Bingo
Bunco
Phase 10
Tee shirt stenciling
Tutu making
Wake boarding
Water skiing
Deep sea fishing
and lots more...

Not to mention the nights full of card games and the pool table and pinball machine in the rental house. There was so much to do and we were having so much fun I wish we could have stayed another week. It makes me sad that my family is so spread out and we only get to see everyone every other year.

We ended up with over 600 photos and have posted them all on our Flickr site (see link to the right). Here are a few of my favorites.

Gabe and Stella enjoying the sand