Camp Ry Ry

Today we had Ryleigh over to play while her mommy was volunteering at VBS.  Abby and Ry haven't played in a long time so these 2 were as happy as clams at high tide :-).  She was dropped off at 7:45 am and thrown right into the mix of our mourning chaos.  Everyone in the car...quick, quick, quick....Blake has swim lessons.  Drinking chocolate milk and watching Max and Ruby in the van while Blake is perfecting his swim, float, swim. 

Then back home for a tea party.  It wasn't long before the 3 boys had to get into the middle of the two princesses drinking their "tea".  Thankfully Dylan thought it would be a great idea that the boys should serve the girls.  Such a sweet lad he is. 

Next its was time to paint ourselves.  I traced each kid and then they had o draw their face, hair, clothes, shoes, etc.... From the pictures it is clear who really used their creativity and who got bored quickly. Blake just made a mess but he had fun.  Thank goodness we were doing this outside in the garage because the hose was at arms reach.  Of course staying on the paper wasn't so easy for some of them which means the garage floor needs a good scrub. 

 

 

 

The Final Projects

 

 Dylan's

 

Colby's

 

Abby's

Ryleigh's

 

Can you guess whose this is????

We ended our day with lunch at Chick fil a and a target run.  Yes I took 5 kids into target and there was a few people (2 which were men) who just giggled as they saw me pushing three in the buggy and two walking next to me.  I wont lie and say I wasn't laughing at myself too. 

See you again tomorrow Ry Ry!!!!

I'm Back!

Yes I know it is already the middle of July and I haven't posted all year and dropped off at the end of last year but I am back! Those of you who follow me please be warned that you will be bombarded with many post as I play catch up.  The plan is to do a summary of each month but there are some things I have to post outside of the monthly summary. 

From a trip to Chicago at Christmas, then 2 weeks later to VA (mind you both of those trips were road trips with every kid in tow), Grandmommy becoming more sick, Disney, Grandmommy getting worse and then off to hospice and finally to her Lord and Savior, Scott's 40th birthday, oh a new boat!!!, baseball, back to Disney with Ry and Abby, Colby's birthday, baseball, TPC and Mothers Day, baseball, the English people came to visit, an adult only trip to the Ritz in Sarasota, baseball, MY B-DAY, more baseball, and a fun filled weekend for the 4th of July!!!  One last thing...in the middle of all that we bought a house and are trying to sell our house!!! Blogging should have been more of a priority because I love to document our memories and our love. 

So here it goes...........

Zoo Day

While everyone else was going back to their first day of school we decided to take our school to the zoo! Its been a very long time since we have made a trip to the zoo so the kids were overly excited.  To make the day even more fun Nikki, Liam, and Declan joined us.  The monkeys were chatting as loud as they could, the lions were roaring ferociously , the jaguar was out and the boa moving more than I wanted to see.  I must get the zoo in more before it gets too hot.

Love this picture...Abby is being so silly

Abby told me she needed to pet the Lizard (its actually a Komodo Dragon)

Checking out the apes

They are so cute!!!!

Dylan and his buddy

Peeping out of the cave

Monkey's see monkeys' do

As we are taking pictures Mr Curious is all over the place and get stuck on the rope.  Sorry but it was pretty funny seeing him hanging there!