Well, in the craziness of life these past few weeks, I have kept a small list of thing that I wanted to blog about, as I consider this to be our family "journal". This is a picture of Cameron's B'day cake, decorated of course, by our resident artist, John. Cam turned 4 on August 10th and he has told me for almost a year that what he wanted for his birthday was a pinata.
So, this is a picture of the pinata after a few whacks when we realized that we hadn't taken a picture of it yet!
Here is Cameron in action! The stick broke before the pinata so we had to move on to a junior golf club. We were a little nervous, but thankfully no one was injured! Eventually the pinata gave in to the thrashing and the looting began!
It was a fun evening with our family and our friends the Galbraiths, and Cam was a happy kid!
My 15 year old brother Jake came for two weeks to hang out with us and the time really flew by! It was such a great experience to really get to know eachother and even more fun to discover how very much alike we are! The kids definitely appreciated having someone else around to play with. We did lots of fun things to try and keep him entertained. We went to one of the local museums and then out to lunch at BW3'S one day. That was quite the adventure!
3 of the boys using jake as a chair after they mummy rolled him
Funny moments!
We obviously had to take Jake to the Beach so that he could see that. That was also a really fun day. We were minus John, who had to work, so that was sad, but the weather was perfect! This is a picture of Cam doing a dance and if this picture were bigger you would be able to see the look on that girls face. It is very amusing.
Kian did not venture into the water, but had a good time on the sand.
a great candid of Uncle Jake and the 4 oldest kids!
Braxton
I was taking a picture of Ashlee and Kian and due to the camera delay and the bright sun, I was not aware I had caught this picture until we got home. It is Ashlee in the act of dumping an entire bag of crackers! She had earlier dropped a couple of the crackers, and was very excited when the seagulls flew very close to retrieve these! So, naturally, it would seem logical to dump the entire bag and have lots of seagull friends, right!? Exactly!
Camera scope, and once again, delay, did not allow me to catch the moment in it's fullness, but needless to say, she had many seagulls come to visit and she quickly began trying to catch one!
Tori being buried
Cam having his turn!
We went to Warren Dunes so that Jake could have a chance to climb the massive sand dune. Here is everyone starting the climb!
Jakey and Kian at the top!
Jakey and Kian back down at the bottom. Whew!
After Jake left for home we had one week left before school to entertain ourselves so I took the kids to the park a couple of those days so they could soak up the outdoors before they would be spending the majority of their days indoors! We had a few bumps and bruises, sadly but I did not take pictures.This is Kian at the top of a very big slide.
Ashlee on the monkey bars...very appropriate for our little monkey!
Kian taking chances!
The older kids after spending 45 minutes at a skate park with their skate shoes!
THE FIRST dAY OF SCHOOL
And so, the summer ended and the day arrived to begin another school year! This is my Ashlee in a dead run for the school bus as she was to begin her first day of Kindergarten. She was VERY excited!
Kian wanted to have his moment in front of the camera!
JJ Tori and Brax
Braxton, Tori, and Ashlee( the scab on the nose gives you an indication of some of the park induced ouchies!)
Braxton and Cam having a sweet moment! School has begun!!!
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