Friday, June 30, 2023

Jammed Full June

Summer is here, and we were all looking forward to it!  June brought a lot of fun including the Ag & Art tour, baseball fun, father's day, water park, and a cancer recovery party.  Many little memories in between as well.
We always go to the library reading kick off party, and this time our neighbors were able to join us!
It was a hot one so we briefly enjoyed the outdoor games...
hula hoops and popsicles.
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Thankful that my parents can watch the kids while I work and they enjoyed some outside time there as well...
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Happy Birthday to Donna!  She proudly wore the crown Shiloh made her!
We enjoyed taking them out to dinner to celebrate her!
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The cousins have started a newspaper and even Josiah is a fan.
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Riverland Hills VBS, and the kids were all about not taking pictures this year.
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Pink eyes all around for the kids, but spread out each a different week from each other.  No fun so slowly healing!
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Small group and we are going through the book of John.  Manuela baked fresh bread to go with our discussion on the bread of life!
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Date night out with friends and the most adorable little companion.
Taking many photos because I'm not always the best at remembering to do so when we are together!
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Zoe's friend had a fun "Clue" themed birthday party!
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Back at it for ozone treatments for pink eye!
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Ezra made it for the last day of Camp Jam!
The girls were there all week, as Zoe really enjoys volunteering with the nursery!
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Saying good-bye to one of our chiropractors that has loved on our family the past 10 years.
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A garden snail was found and Zoe was happy to research and create a habit for it.  A couple weeks later it had laid soooo many eggs!
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An edible nature walk!
So informative and fun!
We tried some of the tea made from ingredients we found along the way.
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Last VBS and Ezra enjoyed it at my parents' church with some of our best friends!
The last night they had a celebration that included a snow cone truck!
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Zoe had her belated birthday date with Lauren and she chose swimming!
She, also, got to read Josiah a book.
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I had Zoe come try out the gym I have been going to HotWorks.
Her body is having a hard time detoxing the mold and the inferred sauna should help with that!
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Ezra is my plant loving buddy and we had a kit to grow some mushrooms that worked really well. However, we waited a bit to long to harvest them and they shrived but still tasty when they were cooked up!
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These kids are moving on up to middle school at church, so it was Shiloh's last Sunday in Base Camp.
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Shiloh helped create a mail truck for Ezra for Cousin County!  He was a fan!
Thankful for all the memories and making it to SUMMER!

Monday, June 19, 2023

Father's Day Fun

We enjoyed getting to celebrate our Beach this Father's day.  I waited until after church to make him brunch.  Which meant we were pretty hungry by the time the food was ready, and gobbled up the goodness before I was able to snap a picture.
I did remember during card/gift time, though.
Shiloh's card and gift of cards to play with him.
Ezra's turn....
with a coupon included for infinity hugs!
Zoe was up with her card...
Then we headed to Beach's parents house and gave his dad his gifts.
I would say he was pretty happy.
Then it was off to the pool.
Beach with his dad and his "good side".
But I wanted one with two smiles as well!
That night we enjoyed dinner at my parents and Shiloh made a creative cake and snacks to celebrate the kick off of the Cousin County newspaper they had created.
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Per tradition, my sisters and I were able to get together a separate night to celebrate our dad.  Always a good time of food and games.
This time we tried out a new one that my dad likes called, Wizard.

Such a great time celebrating all the amazing dad's in our lives!!