Gibbs Family Vacay

What a feat!  All 18 members of the Gibbs family at the same place at the same time for over 24 hours! Amazing!  (Plus Eddie's sweet parents!) With everyone living in different towns, with different work schedules, and different family holiday plans...this just doesn't happen very often. 

What a treat! (And just getting everyone in one photograph is pretty amazing too!)

Eddie and Steph planned such a fun weekend for everyone.  First, they rented a lakehouse which could accomodate all of us....a feat in itself!  It was a great house!  Then they kicked off our first evening there with a Mexican Fiesta dinner that included the kids busting open a Pinata full of pink or blue candy to reveal the gender of Nalley kid #3! Eddie & Steph didn't know the gender yet either!  Talk about a big moment!

The kids got after and it and...its a....

We spent the next 2 days eating amazing food, enjoying watching the kids play, and playing on the lake! Perfect! Here are all the girls havin a tea party!

Not sure what Hudson was up to here...but it kinda looks like a sneak attack on the girls!

My mom planned some fun arts and crafts projects for the kids.  It looks like we have our own preschool class!

It is quite an effort to prepare and clean up meals for a group of 20....and the teamwork is pretty amazing! Everyone took turns preparing meals. Although Eddie's mom probably did more than her part! She seemd to always be at that sink! Hope my children SEE family members smiling while serving each other! Beautiful picture of love.

The kids had a blast with with their cousins out on the lake!  Eddie's parents were so sweet to bring their boat down to entertain everyone.  And Ashley's parents were generous to loan us their boat too!  Fun to have all 20 of us out on the lake!

After we got the kids to bed, the guys played a round of pool while the girls chatted.  Then we had some mean games of Balderdash (Gibbs family fav board game).



Ashley was so sweet to make ALL 8 kids matching personalized tshirts to wear while we were there!  Our vacation was just so legit!

All good things must come to an end....and so did the weekend!

Thanks EVERYONE! We had a blast and have great memories of Gibbs vacay 2012!