So I had this "grand idea" a couple weeks ago. I would invite my nephews and niece up for Memorial Day weekend and let the cousins spend some time together and let my sister Jessica and new brother in-law, Vernon, have some alone time. (Well kind of alone time since they have a 2 month old baby.) Emma's birthday was on Memorial Day so I thought we would just have a weekend long "party" with the cousins. 7 kids in our house for 4 days was loud and crazy and fun. Bedtimes weren't as bad as I thought they would be after the 1st night. It was a great weekend, but I'm exhausted! Trying to keep all those kids fed was a challenge and a half! But so worth it!
The first thing the girls did when we got home on Friday was change into "dress up" dresses.
Then they wanted to go play outside and I made them change into play clothes. They came out like this. I think Emily wore Emma's clothes most of the weekend and Emma wore Emily's clothes. So as usual we were getting them mixed up all weekend long. Silly girls!
The boys wanted to play target practise with the airsoft gun and we had a neighbor kid at our house most of the time so that made 8 kids running around!
When they got tired of target practice they came inside to make a tent in the living room.
We watched the movie Tangled which Cale said was a "dumb movie" but as you can see he sat and watched it anyways.
Kendall got out his rc plane and flew. The kids loved that!
The kids stayed up late talking and giggling every night and for some crazy reason they were all up before 7am! We were all pretty tired!
We had a little flag ceremony in the morning on Memorial day. Since it was Emma's birthday she got to be the flag bearer.
All the kids and Kendall.
Jessica and Vernon came up and we had dinner at my mom's house. The kids all had fun playing with bubbles.
Jacob playing with some toys at my mom's house.
Emma really wanted a pinata for her birthday, so the kids had a great time with it!
Daniel taking some swings at the pinata.
Vernon got the older boys real dizzy before they could start swinging the mallet around!
I made an apple pie and a cherry pie for Emma's birthday. Darien's birthday is on Sunday so we celebrated his birthday too while we were all together. My mom made a chocolate cake for him.
Emma and Daniel being silly!
Noah, Cale, Daniel, Emma, Jacob, Emily and Darien.
Okay we were missing the newest cousin Alexander in the last picture so here are all the Washington cousins. Some day we will get all my siblings and all their kids together and get a picture taken!
Emma opening her presents.
She LOVES I Spy books and now has the game! So much fun!
Jacob and Alexander getting to know each other. Alexander is 2 months old and I think he weighs more then Jacob!
He is so cute!!
Hmmm, what's this??
The first thing the girls did when we got home on Friday was change into "dress up" dresses.
Then they wanted to go play outside and I made them change into play clothes. They came out like this. I think Emily wore Emma's clothes most of the weekend and Emma wore Emily's clothes. So as usual we were getting them mixed up all weekend long. Silly girls!
The boys wanted to play target practise with the airsoft gun and we had a neighbor kid at our house most of the time so that made 8 kids running around!
When they got tired of target practice they came inside to make a tent in the living room.
We watched the movie Tangled which Cale said was a "dumb movie" but as you can see he sat and watched it anyways.
Kendall got out his rc plane and flew. The kids loved that!
The kids stayed up late talking and giggling every night and for some crazy reason they were all up before 7am! We were all pretty tired!
We had a little flag ceremony in the morning on Memorial day. Since it was Emma's birthday she got to be the flag bearer.
All the kids and Kendall.
Jessica and Vernon came up and we had dinner at my mom's house. The kids all had fun playing with bubbles.
Jacob playing with some toys at my mom's house.
Emma really wanted a pinata for her birthday, so the kids had a great time with it!
Daniel taking some swings at the pinata.
Vernon got the older boys real dizzy before they could start swinging the mallet around!
I made an apple pie and a cherry pie for Emma's birthday. Darien's birthday is on Sunday so we celebrated his birthday too while we were all together. My mom made a chocolate cake for him.
Emma and Daniel being silly!
Noah, Cale, Daniel, Emma, Jacob, Emily and Darien. 
Okay we were missing the newest cousin Alexander in the last picture so here are all the Washington cousins. Some day we will get all my siblings and all their kids together and get a picture taken!
Emma opening her presents.
She LOVES I Spy books and now has the game! So much fun!
Jacob and Alexander getting to know each other. Alexander is 2 months old and I think he weighs more then Jacob! 
He is so cute!! 
Hmmm, what's this??
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