Sorry the pics are a little out of order. Hope it all still makes sense :)
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| 3 kids in camo! |
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| My 4 blessings on the beach. Poor Abby was napping, but I really wanted a pic of all 4 of them so we laid her in Davey's lap. |
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| Abigail and Cousin Elliott. |
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| Abigail and Boaz playing in the sand. Bo loved grabbing handfuls of sand, and eating some of it too. |
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| Nana and Boaz. So glad Nana and Grandpa were able to come out for a couple of days and visit! |
We have had such a fun past few weeks. Last week we had our annual 4th of July camping trip. It was so much fun to be able to spend a whole week with family in beautiful Santa Barbara. The kids loved getting to play with their cousins and go to the beach everyday. The kids loved riding in Papa's boat, playing in the water, and building sand castles with Papa. They also loved going for walks around the campground, especially when they were going to the rope swing, which was a favorite for all the kids. In order to make the most of our time there we decided to let the kids skip nap. This made for a fun week, but also some tired kiddos coming home. It was a long day flying home and the kids slept most of the way.
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| Building sandcastles with Papa. |
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| Me and my boys! |
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| Most of the family, just missing beautiful Abigail. |
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| Boaz loved the beach! |
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| All the cousins! They all had so much fun playing together. |
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| Cassia at the rope swing. |
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| Nana brought kites to fly. At one point Cassia accidentally let go, luckily Dave was able to rescue it. |
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| Cassia and Owen enjoying the boat. |
After spending the weekend at home catching up on sleep we had the joy of having Kidz Club at our house every morning this week. This is like VBS in our front yard. A team of youth kids from our church and partner church led the kids in games, skits, and gospel message every day. We had a great turn out with a handful of kids from our bible study and a handful from our neighborhood. Every day this week my kids have been taking forever to eat their lunch because they are too busy telling me everything that happened at kidz club. I think their favorite part was the game yesterday during Water Wednesday. They played duck duck goose with a cup of water. The person who was it would say drip, drip (dripping a little water as they go around) and drop (dumping the whole cup full, instead of goose). Davey got the cupful quite a few times and they all loved how Hudson was in the mush pot and had the huge bucket of water dumped on him.
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| Cassia getting a cup full of water dumped on her. |
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| Boaz enjoyed Kidz Club too. He liked playing with Jackson's cups. |
Unfortunately this week the girls came down with a fever. Monday evening Cassia wasn't feeling well and by the time we were half way done with our monthly shopping trip at Costco she had goosebumps all over and was crying from being cold and achy. Dave took over the shopping and I took her home. Tylenol got her energy back, but she still had a fever the next day so she didn't get to be apart of kidz club on Tuesday. Cassia was asking me how she got sick and how she got germs. She then proceeded to tell me she thinks the germs came from Abby because she had been giving Abby lots of kisses. Surprise, surprise, Tuesday after nap Abby came down with a fever. By the next morning they were both healthy with all their energy and both talking nonstop. It was weird that there were no other symptoms than a fever, but I am so thankful that was all it was.
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| Poor sick Abby. This was taken a little after nap and she wanted to rest more on the couch. This is how I knew she wasn't feeling well. I have a hard enough time getting Abby to go down for nap let alone wanting to rest even more after nap. |
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| Sweet Boaz! Davey wanted to share his hat with Bo. |
