2010 FVAOH

Last week was the annual FVAOH at the Benders. The entire family - all 14 of us - spent 5 days in Knoxville swimming, boating, laughing, and eating!

Here are some pictures of our fun:

2010 FVAOH

(Family Vacation At Our House)

Please take special note that I am in this picture and was present at FVAOH. This is last time you will see me! I spent too much time behind the camera.

The Cousins

Luke, Cole, Macey, Trent, Jackson, and Philip

My Happy Happy Boy!

The highlight of the vacation was Friday morning when Macey and Cole were baptized. What a awesome way to start off our time together!

They asked Wesley to say a few words before the baptisms. He tried but was interrupted numerous times by Jackson.

Jackson and Trent watching their cousins.

The proud Dad and Mom

KD baptizing Macey

Ron baptizing his son

We spent Friday and Saturday hanging out by the pool.

Macey was so good with Trent and Jackson!

Here she is finding bugs for them to look at - so glad that is her and not me!

Flash joined the fun

Philip and Grammy

Jackson and his Dada

Even Philip tested out the waters

Please no lusting after this body - it takes a lot of work to look this good!

Another shot of a happy boy with his Grammy

Philip loving him some Macey time

Sunday night we all took a cruise on the houseboat.

R-n-R

Jackson and his DaDa

Abby and Trent

Uncle Ron helping Jackson drive

Philip stayed inside for the boat ride, but loved his first time on the water.

The boys anchored out Sunday night on the houseboat so they could hit the water early Monday for some wake boarding and tubing. The girls (plus Philip and Trent) stayed back at the house. We enjoyed an easy Monday consisting of a nice stroll and then a lot of sitting by the pool! There are no pictures from our day of fun, but a lot from the boys' adventures:

Jackson and KD driving

Jackson loves him some boat time!

Since Mom was not around, Jackson and Wesley thought this was a good time to try out the tube and wake board! It looks like he had a lot of fun:

Started out nice and easy on the tube.

Then he got up on the wake board with Wesley. Here he is waving at the camera.

Though I am glad I wasn't there to watch this "live" I know Wesley was taking extra care of Jackson on the water. He is an experienced wake boarder and would never put Jackson in danger. Here he is holding Jackson up (makes us all glad he is so light!) as they finish a "run"

We started a new tradition this year - a family talent show. It was a hoot! All the families participated and the skits were hilarious. We started off the show with a debut video from Jackson Beiber. We chose a video since we didn't know if Jackson would perform in front of everyone...we shouldn't have worried - he put on a show and loved being in front of everyone.

Trent has learned to wink (so cute!) so Joel, Abby, Luke, and Trent performed to the Neil McCoy song, "Wink" complete with Trent winking and Luke taking a stiff drink (Dr. Pepper)

Shannon, Ron, Macey and Cole did a rendition of Dancing with the Stars and Grammy and KD acted out "Hit the Road Jack." Macey ended the night with a special poem she had written about Family Vacation. It was a great talent show and hopefully, this will become an annual addition to FVAOH!

Philip loved watching all the skits front row from his exasaucer!

Thank you, Jack and Lynne, for a wonderful and relaxing time in Knoxville!!