All this because two people fell in love...

Check out the progression of these three photos. It is difficult to believe that we have mushroomed in 19 short years to this cool group of kids and children. Hugh and I started out with two plus nine. Now we are 37 with two more on the way. Six years have passed since our last group photo, and we have added 16 to the family in that time period. Lots of hard work and love is represented here. We are so proud. (Can you tell?)

Photo Shoot

Our last night in Newport, we invited a photographer to capture the images of our family for posterity. We thought it would be fun to have a Grandpa and Grandma photo. Whoa....what were we thinking? Eighteen children under the age of 10 with just two adults to hold them down in one spot. Believe it or not---this was the best one. Have you ever seen so much LIFE in just one photo? More to come next post.

If you are lucky enough to be at the beach, you are lucky enough!

What a great time we had at our annual Newport reunion. (At least we plan to make it annually.) Just a few photos to show all the fun we had...all 37 of us.
Check out Hugh on his rollerblades. He was up at dawn every morning rollerblading to Huntington Beach. We had a tug-of-war with each age group. Note the annual t-shirt worn by all to Disneyland. Star Wars with some familiar family faces photoshopped in. Take a close look and see if you can tell who made the t-shirt this year.