Liz brought stuff for face painting and the kids loved it:

Cali chose a butterfly

Rose with a rainbow mask

uncle michael working on Tommy’s Batman

The face painting headquarters

It looked like we had a small fair going on.

look at that hair batman!

happy kids

Benji does not like face paint but he let Jaydn paint him in the end.

samers

Kayaks and SUP’s and FUN. There is a little lake off of Highway 88 that we drove to on Monday and Thursday. The water was cool and refreshing and the weather was hot and we had a blast hanging out on the beach and taking turns on the boats.

older cousins are awesome

and a pano of the lake

This was our beach

I had a full kayak this time out

Jaydn giving the boys a ride across the lake

Josh believes in swimming fully clothed

chillin

just hanging out at the lake

this little lake is beautiful

Rose and Cedar getting paddled around by Tracie

owning the lake

Walking on Water

Cesar?

the kids were entertained for hours

the babies

the kids loved exploring across the lake on the big rocks

Ben and Benji out on the Paddle Board

boats are fun on the shore too

Millie loved being in the kayaks – all of our kids did

My mom is the queen of the boat. Yes, I let her paddle me around the middle of the lake.

Ray, Tommy, and Rose

Cali was cruisin these kayaks with her cousins

Grandpa trying out the SUP

Cali and Sean

Hanging out on the beach Take 2

Look at the Cute babies!

and then we needed sleep

We drove to Pioneer California on Saturday July 25th – we played all week – and drove back home on Saturday August 1st.

The cabin doesn’t have cell phone service and there is no internet! It was nice to be phone free and enjoy the family and nature.

Christy and Rob own the cabin. It has 5 bedrooms, 2 lofts, a kitchen, 2 main living areas, and a big deck. At one point during the week we did have all 47 of us there!! (and yes, we did fit in a morning of family picture taking) And Yes, Some people slept in tents.

You can’t have a Robertson reunion without Mother Robertson’s chore chart! She assigns all of us to help with different breakfasts or dinners and Clean Up is also assigned. She also plans all of the breakfast and Dinner food and brings it to the cabin for us! We then split the bill among the families. This year we all brought snacks and lunch stuff to share. Needless to say we ATE and ATE and ATE.

The cabin doesn’t have Air Conditioning so we spent most of our days away at a lake or river to stay cool.

Mother Robertson wanted to make sure that everyone was sufficiently entertained during the week so we were all assigned to come prepared with an activity for everyone to participate in! we were never bored. We all had a blast. Mom did a princess play for the girls complete with daily rehearsals, Dad did a compass treasure hunt, Christy and Rob put up a zipline at the cabin – I didn’t get any pictures of it though :(, Michael skipped out, Ryan did a kids treasure hunt, Kevin and Liz did face painting, Ben and I introduced 1 night Werewolf and Ben read a book to all the kids, Josh and Mal did the Tie Dye Shirts and set up a bbgun shooting area, Joel and Megan brought family feud and we played every night, Tracie and John did a painting contest and Disc Golf, Brady skipped out, Shannon did manicures and pedicures to all that wanted them, Sean taught us Spikeball, and Kelsey made us play Jin Ju wars or something like that :). See – – it was busy 🙂

We have literally 1000 pictures so I’ll see what I can do to get some of those posted…

and here’s a few of us just hanging out at the cabin: