We celebrated the umpteenth Leslie family reunion on Memorial Day at Uncle Alan's house this year. It was dubbed "Camp Cockamamie" since they live in Cocke County, TN. I have forgotten how many years in a row we've been gathering on Memorial Day, but I think it's close to ten. The boys slept in the same room with us at Uncle Alan & Aunt Linda's house. It made for interesting nights since three of us (the boys & me) had a bad cough. In fact on Saturday night, I held Evan up right against me from 3:30am to 4:30am since he was coughing so bad he was hardly breathing from all the drainage. We moved Alex's crib to the huge walk in closet (& left the door open) to give him a little bit more privacy from the noise. That worked great as he slept all night until after 7am. I think he liked the dark and quiet room of the closet.
Tallest cousin, Andrew with shortest cousin, Alex.
The siblings (minus my dad, who was in Alaska on a cruise).
We ate our traditional Friday night fare of lasagna and/or poppy seed(less) chicken. Aunt Linda doesn't like to put the poppy seeds in her version. On Saturday, all the aunts, uncles and cousins from near and far arrived to Cosby, TN and we feasted on smoked pork and lots of fixings. Sunday we visited with some more cousins and ate hamburgers and hot dogs.
The older kids fished outside in the big pond stocked with fish and snapping turtles. We saw wild turkeys every morning. And my cousins saw a small black bear run from them on the other side of the pond. There is lots of wildlife in the mountains!
The boys loved playing on the big porch outside and we blocked them in with relatives that gave them lots of attention.
I only wish everyone had felt better. We came home and both boys were diagnosed with a bad ear infection that Tuesday. The only up side was that Evan loved just being held and snuggled by his relatives all weekend long. I think everyone was able to get their baby fix.
We ended the trip on Monday morning by dining at the local restaurant called Janice's.
I'm sorry you guys were all sick! But what a fun time anyway!
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