At the beach with family!

Finally, some pictures from our surprise visits earlier this summer!

This is the beach we visited. BEAU-T-FUL!

This is why we went there. So G-ma and G-pa could go diving! Aren't they cool. I hope I am doing fun things like this when I am their age...not that there old or anything...because there not....at all....I mean it.

Austin wanted to be turned into a merman. They messed up. Oops! Good thing he's such a great sport.

Robert thought he wanted to be buried...then he got a little too buried. This is right before the tears started.

It was our only beach trip this year. Very unusual for us. Hopefully next summer we will make up for it!

Dishnwasher fun

This is from a while ago...Robert's job was emptying the dishwasher and he loved to count how many of everything there was. So, we decided to keep track and then graph it. He did all the counting and coloring. (The different colors represent different days.) Doesn't he look proud!

It was a fun activity and we learned that we dirty a LOT of plastic cups!

Some pool fun

Look what we found!

Last night we heard a strange sort-of buzzing/clicking noise during scripture study. It became very distracting so David went to figure out where it was coming from. This is what he found....

A 2 1/5 inch long katydid. We had never seen one before so the girls went running for their bug book to identify it. We kept it in a jar overnight and the kids did some research on it this morning. It is now back where it belongs.  I can't believe I am about to say this about an insect, but I think it's rather pretty.

Teeth problems

Just got back from an unplanned visit to the dentist. Anna has an infected tooth. Antibiotics and then she will get it pulled on Friday. Luckily, it's a baby tooth. Luckily, I have been feeling so good that hauling a bunch of kids to the dentist then sitting at the pharmacy waiting to get the prescription filled with a very restless bunch of kids didn't do me in. Luckily, we have good dental insurance. Luckily ibuprofen works. See how lucky we are... although I think a more accurate word would be blessed.

Summer Surprises

Earlier in the summer we had some surprise visitors come!









Hopefully some pictures will be coming soon...

my babies are back!

Wednesday, David loaded up the car and we drove the 5 hour trip to meet Grandma and Grandpa and pick up the girls. I really missed them, but they had the times of their lives. I survived the drive up and did even better yesterday for the drive home.  And proof that I am doing even better today is that I am blogging. Let me just say that a true spinal headache is pain like nothing I have ever experienced before....and I have given birth ....5 times. I'm glad it's over and I hope we get some answers from this experience.