LDOY Party Celebration of the Sun

It has been a tradition for about as long as I can remember for our family to celebrate the LDOY (as it has become to be known) Longest Day of the Year. This is another Helen-ism. She hates winter and complains all winter long about missing the sun so in June when the sun shines the longest we celebrate it in Helen style with Food and playing till the sun goes down. Some years like this one we go to a perk and some years we have done other things like go to the drive in or an outdoor pageant. (too bad the drive-in's by us are all closed) So here are some pictures of the fun!

Celebrating Sun and Summer!
LDOY 2008
Hey any excuse to get together and eat and play is a good one right?

This family comes in 3's here are the 3 11yr olds with the 3 babies that will as of Oct. all be 2 yr olds. Only a few of the sets of 3's we have.

3 of the little cousins trying to "catch a baby duck" I told them if they would hold still they might get one. Truth is I just wanted a picture. HAHAHA Tricky huh?

Will swinging with no hands and when I said "Hey, look at Will, with no hands" he pulled his little hands up to his face then pushed them out to me so I could see them and said "I have hands" LOL Now isn't that sweet? He says the cutest things some days. Should I feel bad I made him think his hands had gone missing?

One of my favorite pics of the day. My SIL and her cutie boy!

And since we are talking about the Sun this is Samantha still trying to recover from her sun burn from the cabin last weekend. She was a stinker and ran off to the pool with the cousins and forgot (more like didn't bother to take the time) to put on sunscreen. A mistake I don't think she will be making again soon. This is the worst sunburn my kids have ever had. She had blisters on her face and a huge huge blister on her shoulder. Freaked her out. Freaked me out too. I hope she doesn't have any bad permanent damage from this. OUCH! poor little fair skinned girl. And then you have my Garyn that has never had a sun burn even though he is out side all the time. People look at them and wonder if they are biological brother and sister. They are, they all are but they don't look it.

And just before leaving the park to come home I snapped a picture of Jesse's new commuter car. He is loving it. Well actually he says he like the way the van drives better but he is loving saving money at the pump and I am loving having my van back. Oh and just so you know why he needed a commuter car. It had 11 miles on it when we drove it off the lot Tuesday night. It now has 430 miles on it as of Saturday night. Yea, really! Do you think he drives too far for work? Me too.