by Kate and Mom
Festivities started Friday night with everyone coming here. Great times even without the ice rink 
Some of the kitchen cleanup crew Saturday after a wonderful brunch at Aunt Sarah’s.
Scary picture: three 16-year-olds.
Aunt Sarah had a pretty fun game where all the poeple with Bible names lined up in chronological order (how their names appeared in the Bible). Seth, Abram, Sarah.
Jacob & Leah and two of their sons: Levi and Benjamin.
Aaron, Joshua, Ruth, Jesse.
David, Samuel, Andrew.
Silas, Julia, Timothy.
Those of us with non-Bible names got to hang out and watch them trying to line up.
Next came pictures. Always a favorite amongst the cousins...ok maybe not.
Aunt Sarah and the nephews.
This picture is a little more realistic than the first one.
Next was all of us nieces with Aunt Sarah. Jake felt the need to be the photographer’s helper and so Aunt Jill caught some fun action shots of him.
Grandpa and Grandma and their kids.
Next was Grandpa & Grandma and grandkids…things were a bit fuzzy during this time and very chaotic. Not sure what happened to the final picture.
Things calmed down a bit for a picture of everyone.
Notice I said “a bit.”
Correction: everyone except these two beauties who were missed.
Aunt Sarah gave shirts to the little boys that said Favorite Nephew, and Mindy and Jewel both got Favorite Neice shirts.
The rest of us cousins got the traditional socks and candy. Complete with the traditional excitement and noise.
And some selfie sticks.
A Steiner gathering isn’t complete without many rounds of ping pong,
checkers…
hearts…
euchre…
and the name game.
New this year was charades.
These Three Stooges made up thier own skit which was a bunch of random movement and jumping around by Josh. Jake randomly yelled out “tornado” and yes he had guessed right 
Of course the constant roughhousing too…and this was not limited to the little boys I might add.
Saturday night after church found us back at our place to bring in the new year. After a bunch of pizza and other snacks there was giant Dutch Blitz and 4-part men’s sing and puzzling and more wrestling and more games and lots of other stuff too.
The winners of A. Sarah’s No-Cell-Phone-For-A-Day contest. Of the seven or so that still qualified for the drawing after church, U. Dave & A. Sandy won both prizes.
What a good-lookin’ bunch of lovely new shirts.
The weekend was a great time and we were all glad weather didn’t get it canceled or anything (that Minnesota weather can be pretty nasty and with us living in Illinois you jis never know what kind of weather we might have either).
THE END.
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