When cousins come to play

With the summer coming to an end, we found ourselves playing Lots with Lots of cousins!

Sara came in to town a couple for weeks before the Hood to Coast run, so we would have time to play.

After a couple days of playing she found herself in the hospital having her appendix out. So while she was recovering, Ariane and I took the kids (all 11 of them) to OMSI to play!

Cohen and Lance LOVED looking at the big fish.  Soon, they pushed the chairs across the room so they could sit and watch in comfort.

The night before Sara got sick, we went to Chuck E Cheese to play.  I'm still wondering if that pizza played a part in the appendix having trouble....

Landon & Allie May!

And when cousins are in town, we love to have Sunday dinners at Grandma Drapers house!

I think the kids play more than they eat, but they are so Cute!

Whitney, Kolby, Landon & Allie

Aspen, Makayla & McKenzie

Then, we're off for another outing. This time we hit the Oregon Zoo.

Can you find Grandma Draper in there with some of her grandkids?

When the girls get home from the zoo, we find more monkeys in Grandpas tree!

The guys are building a tree house in Grandpas forest!

And now its time for the Draper Family Camp out in Grandpas forest!

Makayla and Aspen made a little tent for their American Girl dolls to sleep in!

A picture of some of the tents with a speedy Tanner running by:

We're glad Kaitlin was feeling good enough to come play at the camp out!

The Gazebo with the sun going down- ready for dutch oven dinners!

Grandpa the mighty dutch oven cooker!

These gals sang "Three little birds" for a talent"

Ariane, Camree,Kolby, Cohen, Macie, Tate, Allie, Landon, Whitney, Sydney, Lance and Stuart!

Squirt LOVES when all the cousins come to play!

It was a fun camp out- we ended up camping TWO nights.

I didn't get pictures of all the playing on the boat.  The kids loved knee boarding, and mom got in to show them how to do 360's on the board.  Dylan got pretty good at getting up on water skis this summer too.

And I guess I didn't get pictures of us gals going on our runs getting ready for the race- we did that lots too.

It was a fun busy week to end summer!