Catching Up With Special Friends

Last week was a special treat - my friend, Lauri, and her kids came for a visit.  We ate lots of good food, went swimming, played at the mall, and did a lot of hanging out.

Kids eating pizza for dinner.

One of the shots of all of the kids.
Connor, Kaitlynn, Jackson, Ryan, Luke, Sarah, and Jacob

One of the nights everyone stayed over at our house late so all of the kids borrowed pj's from Jackson.  We all got such a huge kick out of Jacob and Connor in way too small pajamas.  It was seriously hilarious!

All of the kiddos at the mall.  We love out sit and stand strollers!

Another shot of all of the kids.

We were very busy with the kids but we still had some time to catch up and just chat. 
Katherine and me with our kids (13 days apart.)

Lauri, Katherine, me  (we missed you Amanda!)

It was pretty much chaotic the whole time but we had a great visit.  We have been working for a while to settle on a house for our Destin trip next summer.  I think we are almost there!  It will be the three of us and our families plus Amanda and hers.  17 people total.  Should be totally WILD.

More Summer Fun

A few more pictures of our summer fun:

Lunch with Caden, Colton, and Makena.

Ryan has just recently started enjoying Praise Baby.  I can get 10-15 minutes of dinner making time with this video. 

He has also been pulling up on everything.

And waking up with crazy hair.  Might be time for a hair cut...  :-(

We did VBS this past week and had so much fun.  Jackson was able to attend because I was teaching.  I originally planned to be in the nursery with Ryan but they needed an extra teacher in 2nd grade so I ended up there.  It was a lot of fun and the ladies in the nursery took great care of Ryan.

Instead of VBS on Friday morning our church has a family event on Friday night.  We had a lot of fun eating pizza, singing songs, and eating sno cones!

When Jacskson's age group went up to sing he wanted nothing to do with it.  See how excited he is?  He actually sat on the floor for a minute and then came back to our pew.  He is just not into performing.  As a matter of fact, each day all the VBS kids got together in the auditorium to sing songs and dance and I never once saw a hint of excitement on Jackson's face.  He just isn't into that stuff.  He is a total boy when it comes to being on stage or singing/dancing. 

Ryan, on the other hand, had a great time watching the singing.

It really was a lot of fun and I'm glad we got to participate.

Yay!

I have so many pictures to be posting but we've been so busy I just haven't had time to post them.  I'll get to that soon!  In the meantime, enjoy this video of Ryan.  You will notice that Jackson didn't want to be left out.

p.s.  As you can tell a certain someone got a hold of the blog and changed the background.  :-)  Any guesses who that was?