Reunion, indoors

When we weren't busy with fun outdoor activities we read stories, ate, cooked, watched the Olympics, did puzzles, shot pool and sat around. Drinking started around 10am and ended when the last person went to bed. Donohues know how to have a good time!

Uncle Vinny (Robert's brother) reading the kids a bedtime story.



Aunt Julie (Robert's oldest sister) making faces with Liel.



Zion and Uncle Frank (Robert's sister Anne's husband).



Zion and Liel playing with cousin Hayley (Julie's daughter).



Posed picture of the siblings- Kathy (#1), Jim (#4), MaryEllen (#2) in back, and Chris (#6), Grace (mom) and Tom (#5).



Posed picture of Grace with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Back row, L-R: Colleen, Eryn, Craig, Anne, Julie, Sean, Ryan, Robert and Zion, Michael, Michelle, Meghan. Front row, L-R: Jake, Henry, Nathan, Grace, Hayley, Justin, Vinny and Liel. Aside from Zion and Vinny all the grandchildren are in back and great-grands are in front.



Me with my beautiful daughter. Anne took this one, she's amazing!

Reunion, outdoors

Ok, so my own family is tiny. I have 3 first cousins. Robert's family, however, is pretty big (we have friends with bigger, but not many). The reunion we were at was for his mom's family- Kathy is the oldest of 6 kids. 5 of the kids, plus their mom, spouses and (adult) children and grandchildren were at the reunion this year, for a total of nearly 40 people. We all went to Uncle Tom (#5, and props to Eryn for the helpful numbering system!) and Aunt Mary's lake house.

We rented pontoon boats, kayaked, canoed, and fished.







Zion even got to ride a jet ski with Uncle Vinny,



and drive the motorboat with Cousin Sean.

Chicagoland, 2

We're back in New York! Hooray. It's nice to be home :)

We had a wonderful trip, and I've finally resized and done something resembling organization to the pictures. I'm going to put them up in 3 posts. Enjoy!

I'll start things off with a non-Chicagoland picture, shall I? This is from my birthday before we left. Mmmm, birthday peach pie!



Here are the kids filling birdfeeders with Kathy.



Robert's cousins Ryan and Colleen.



Me, Liel, Aunt Dana, Kathy, Uncle Chris.



Bright and early the next morning we all got up and drove north. We stopped in Madison, but the rest of the family went straight up to 3 Lakes for the reunion.