Picturesque Payette Lake...with how many kids???

The whole Thompson "tribe" met near McCall, Idaho for a week long family reunion. 18 grand kids under the age of 14, plus a family friend who was 15. 19 kids!!! It was actually only crazy at times and more fun (even for the adults, I think) than it sounds. Here is the house (7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms) that we stayed in:

This is the view from our bedroom. NIIICE!

Here is the Thompson Tribe. Not pictured here is Aundrea, a 15 year old friend that was also with us--a big help with the babies!

The dock where lots of fun was had. The kids played on the fun islands a lot. One got a hole after the first day.

Here are the 5 babies under one year

And some individual shots

Isaiah

Kate

Ethan

and Heath

We did some daily crafting before heading down to the dock. We decorated the backs of our Thompson Tribe shirts, made flower pens, and made and baked Sculpey clay.

Down at the dock, we swam, played with water guns, went tubing, skiing, and wakeboarding, and just relaxed.

Heath after his first piece of red licorice

Heath had a nap on the dock each day. Here he is asleep in one of the kiddie pools (just toys, no water.)

Maddi learned to waterski. Brandon, who is 3 also skiied, but I don't have a pic of that.

Halle and Kyle both decided they liked tubing. For Halle especially that was a big step. At the beginning of the week, she would barely go at all, but just a few days later, she was going very fast and flying around out there.

A few nights we did S'mores. Yum.

Here was a little photo shoot of some of the girls...

We had a lot of fun and would definitely do it again next year!