Summers End

 

Summer is coming to a close and school is right around the corner!They start August 24 and they cannot wait.We have filled up our days with swimming lessons and funwith very few pictures of either.Emry enjoys getting a hairdo from Maven.

Grandma helped the twin's immortalize their favorite shirts into pillows.

Evren made one too.

Emry figured out how to finish his soup quickly.

Katelyn and Dylan spent the night and the big kidsmade fairy night lights.

Fun in the sun with cousins.

Summer Vacation

 We have had some busy days recently.

Always time for a good book though! 

 We went to Galveston with my side of the family for 

a few days. We enjoyed Moody Gardens and the beach.

 Emry found a cooler to hide in.

 Then we met Brendan's parents and Andan in Branson MO.

 Fun at the fountains

 Fascinated by the car boat.

 Almost everyone kept their mask on when required.

Emry not so much.

 Emry found multiple ways to get comfortable on Andan.

  Ripley's Believe It or Not

 A fun piece of art made out of bottle caps

 Kid friendly chopsticks are awesome

 We went to an adventure park and had a blast climbing and tunneling.

That is Maren on the ladder.

 The little kid's section at the adventure park was perfect for Emry.

 Tunneling

 At Dolly Parton's Stampede Maven couldn't believe

that she was given her own chicken to eat.

 A blurry picture of the Stampede. 

They put on a good show with lots of different animals.

 Back home to the heat, cannot stay outside unless

you are getting wet!

 Inside activities are awesome this time of year.

 The kids wrote a script for a play and practiced for most of a day.

Brendan and I were invited to watch it in the evening.

Maren was the ghost who wanted to eat the others, Maven and

Evren jumped over a fence over and over so the ghost would "count sheep" and fall 

asleep, when Maren woke up again she had magically turned from a bad ghost to a good ghost

and they all became friends. 

Entertaining to say the least.

Everyone took a bow at the end

The Twins Are 8!

 Summer break has officially begun, but before we got 

here a lot of fun things happened.
Emry wears his Batman costume everyday.
The kids built a stage so they could put on performances
for us. 

 The kids played restaurant.

They built a lot of forts. 

 Every morning they delivered Daddy his bacon.

 The girls made dolls for a project at school.

 Evren decided he needed to make one too.

 Another project at school required the girls to

take pictures of themselves doing farming activities.

 Some siblings and cousins and Grandpa joined in.

 Katelyn turned 6!

We all had fun at her party.

 Uncle Kenny joined the fun.

 Unicorn cupcakes

  

 Painting dinosaurs with cousins.

 The girls helped me plan their birthday party.

They drew these paint-by-number pictures for a

paint relay race. 

 Everyone helped make blueberry muffins and

cupcakes for the party.

 Rainbow balloons and llamas.

 Birthday cupcakes

 After cupcakes and a treasure hunt inside, it was time

for some water fun outside.

 Water balloons

Maven posing in her new dress

Maren trying on her new shirt.

 Emry loves to wear Evren's plastic swords and take all 

the cushions off of the couch....everyday. 

 A piece of artwork they worked on together.

 Evren didn't get to "walk" for kindergarten graduation

but we got a picture with his teacher.

The big kids doing their yoga exercises while 

Batman builds a cushion tower.

Summer Vacation Already?

 Picking blackberries at Grandma and Grandpa's farm

 They wanted to make a pie, but sadly we didn't make it in time

and the berries molded

 We improvised on the "Watch Ya Mouth" game.

 Grandma and Grandpa helped us hang up the zip line.

Fun, fun, fun!

 Delivering bacon to Daddy at work.

 Evren lost his first tooth by trying to get Legos apart with his teeth.

 Downtime

 We went 5 weeks without seeing our cousins.
They were very excited to be back together.

 More fun in the sun with reusable water balloons.

 The water from the hose is cold, but they still enjoy the pool.

 Playing Ring Around the Rosie

 The girls had to write a silly story for school.

They enjoy writing stories.

 Here is Maven's story.