Raymond loves attention. He has the biggest smiles right now. He has been a Great Sleeper – 10 pm to 6am and back to sleep until 10am. He spends his awake time chewing on his fist, looking at his hand and watching all of the chaos. He loves to get his diaper changed, always wants to be face out and he’s following all of his siblings in the chubbiness department.
love this chubby baby
Big Mouth Smiles
We Love Super Hero Movies. We had been waiting for this one to come out and it did not disappoint. We went for a post birthday celebration for Ben. His parents, 4 siblings and their spouses were all able to watch it with us.
the Nettesheim group
Captain America is Ben's favorite.
On Friday night we want to The Pizza Pie with Joel, Brady, Kelsey, LaNell and Dan. I had never been. I enjoyed the variety. And the company was “nice”.
cookie dough dessert pizza was yummy
On Sunday we got to have dinner with Ben’s family. His mom and both Grandma’s were there so that was neat.
Grandma Nettesheim sporting the mustache cookie!
Babies are just cute – so they get more blog time!
Thomas 4.5 months
Raymond 2.5 months
Cedar 2 months
hopefully we'll make it to the cabin again before these 3 are too big for the monkey chairs
A fun activity that we did at the cabin was a little archery and shooting for the kids. Uncle Sean was really good at teaching the kids how to use the bow. Benji and Packer really liked being big enough to shoot.
Sean teaching Packer how to shoot.
Benji figuring out the bbgun.
Packer on his own.
the shooting range all roped off.
Packer and Sean learning the bow.
Benji and the bow.
gathering the arrows
Grandma planned a fun treasure hunt for at the cabin. She hid 20 brown bags out in the forest and all of the grand kids got to go search for them. I thought I would just waltz out there with Rosie and find some bags but they were hidden really well so we all got to search. Once found we had a white elephant type gift exchange with the treasures. The kids all had fun finding the bags and playing with their prizes. I think there is a picture of each of the grand kids in here. Well 16 of the grand kids, not the 3 babies and not the 3 oldest 
We planned an early family get together this year with my parents and siblings. We wanted to celebrate my Dads 60th and it is also my parents 40th wedding anniversary this summer. The first of May is right in between those 2 events and it was the best time for the Alaskans to come. Anyway all 12 f us kids were able to clear our schedules and spend some time together at the Eggers cabin in Pioneer, CA. We love being together. I’m glad that we all get along so well and EVERYONE makes the effort to have family time.
dad being a 60 year old goofball for the grandkids.
Kiley on the slackline.
Packer
Cali
Benji
This cabin was like camping with a house – - tons to explore and play but nice bathrooms, showers, and recliners when you wanted them.
Brady and Tracie
Jana and Ray
Shannon
Braden
we ate tons of good food.
we found a sandy lake beach for Rose.
we gave mom and dad a testimony book for their anniversary.
and I smoked these 2 girls in Rummikub lots
While at my parents house last week we spent an evening on the bed looking at old photo albums. It was so fun to see pictures and share memories from our childhood. We didn’t have many pictures from our youth so the ones that we do have are keepsakes. I took a few pictures of pictures as I strolled down memory lane…
