Bye Bye July

What a busy July it has been... 

Camping any chance we get, Alex's dentist appointment, swimming, movies, church, dinners with friends, birthday parties, I took a little vacation and Mike took the kids camping.

Monique and Stephanie. Thank goodness she was their to help Mike with her crazy hair. :)

I went on our Elias 6th Annual Girls' Weekend ~ Growing in Grace and Courage. 

Julie, Michelle, DeeDee, Virginia, Veronica, Linda, Chanin, Frances

We had a blast in Washington.

Sitting around talking about the Yeti.

To see the whole recap of the weekend check out my Tia Julie's blog. http://jewelsinthegarden-julie.blogspot.com/ She did an excellent job telling and showing our great weekend. Thanks Tia!

We had two extra kids for a weekend...

Alex and Haidyn putting glow in the dark stickers on his wall.

I had time to try to braid Monique's hair.

It kinda worked.

Took time to watch Cars for the first time.

Their cousins would be so proud, they finally watched it! 

The kids are decorating a pinata for me and Chanin's birthday weekend.

They both were concentrating so hard.

They did a great job helping me. Now it is not stop asking "can we put the candy in now"!

Our Long Camping Weekend

We went camping from Tuesday to Sunday! We was full of work, fun and relaxing.

First a little work with installing carpet, baseboards and a ceiling fan.

We were so happy Grandma Laura, Grandpa Phil and Uncle Ryan joined us too!

Enjoying the cool weather.

napping outside

Alex helping Mo down a little hill.

She still fell, so her big awesome brother helped her up and dusted her off. 

Fishing at Blue Ridge

Tata wishing for a fish and a glass of wine.

Monique wishing for a fish too.

Enjoying the weather and scenery   

YEAH Tata caught a fish!

Monique helping in the kitchen.

It was a little cold looking for satellites

The four of us with Uncle Ryan and Nana walked all the way down to the creek.

Walking down was easy

The water was fun

Alex caught a few crawdads

Going up took a little longer

Some friends came up and the kids had lots of fun together.

Firefighter Monique

Out of the three kids, she was the only one who wanted wanted to put on the suit.

she looked so cute

A little reading

A little painting

We went to a friends house to if deer would come and eat. We waited a little to loud.

And got tired of waiting so headed to the swing set.

He fell asleep looking for satellites this time.

Time to get cleaned up

Everything is all put away and time to go home.