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A Labor Day Family Get-Together and a Day Sailing

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Sixteen people, including five children, stand on grass in front of trees and a house.

This was Labor Day, September 2008. We had a big family gathering, with what felt like a whole new generation of cousins, babies, and toddlers all running around. We spent part of the afternoon in a big, grassy backyard, trying to corral everyone for the classic group photos. It's never easy to get one where everyone is looking at the camera, but we gave it a good shot in the warm, late-summer sun.

There was a nice moment after the big group photos where the women and all the babies sat together on the lawn. It was a bit of calm amid the general family chaos, just a bunch of moms and their kids hanging out on the grass.

Later in the day, some of us went out on the water. It was a perfect day for sailing, with a clear blue sky and that deep blue water stretching out. It felt like a fitting way to mark the end of summer, out on a boat with family.

Sixteen people, including five children, pose on a grassy lawn with trees and a house in the background.Fifteen people, including five children, pose outdoors on green grass in front of trees and a house.Six adults and five children pose on a sunny green lawn with trees and a house in the background.Eleven people, including several adults and children, pose in a grassy backyard with trees and a house in the background.Six adult women sit on grass, each holding a baby or toddler, outdoors with green trees in the background.Four women and four young children sit on green grass with plants in the background.A man holds rope on a sailboat with several other people, a large sail, and blue water with distant land.A man holding ropes on a sailboat with three other people and a child, sailing on blue water.

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