Lots of Family Pictures

Hi there! Just thought I would check in and share some pictures of my brothers and their families from Australia. We are having a great time seeing each other. It is definitely "Brisbin Chaos" at its best as we try to negotiate schedules, nap times, personalities, vehicles, feeding everyone, etc.... I am having fun and trying not to do too much, but there are a lot of activities going on!! Since everyone is staying over with my parents, I have "rest periods" like today when the kids are in school and it is quiet here around the house.

So here we go.... the younger of my two brothers, George, arrived first with his two children Cyrus (3-1/2) and Lara (almost 2). We did the Memorial Day parade in Portsmouth and then took the ferry round trip as a "boat ride" for the kids:

We brought my oldest brother, John, and his wife, Caroline, and their daughter Varsha (2-1/2) back with us from NY on May 31st. George's wife, Div, arrived after her work conference on June 1st. Katie was especially excited as each new day seemed to bring more cousins and aunts and uncles to town. The group has enjoyed swimming in our pool several times and what goes better with that than a hot dog dinner on the patio.....

As the evenings get late, we have done combined "tub time" washing the kids en masse and then have relied on Chris and Katie to do some entertaining. In this case, it is story time on the sofa.......not sure how much they all enjoyed the ending of Chris' latest Hardy Boys book....

Yesterday we had a great time at the beach. George sent Katie flying...

And John had lots of energy for chasing the kids, too...

Boys at Sea:

And bathing beauties in the sand:

Cyrus the surfer boy:

Well, that's probably enough pics for now. Hopefully I can get a few of us women-folk next time and a group photo of the whole gang!