VBS with Nonie & Pop

The last day of VBS the church had a family picnic and the city Firemen came

The kids sitting on back of fire engine 

Playing on the church helicopter 

Corben going across the monkey bars 

Playing in the house

Mason, Eliana and Corben 

Cole and Corben climbing 

A picture posted during VBS 

cousin Payton with Corben & Eliana 

Mason going down the water slide 

4 cousins swinging while Uncle Caleb pushed them all 

Happy Corben 

4 cousins

Eliana, Corben, Mason and Cole 

Corben standing my VBS logo for the week 

Corben & Mason had a great week at VBS 

Corben all dressed

his mask, armor of God, belt of truth, hanging cross, red cape, and cut out superhero flying on a straw!

Thanks Pop & Nonie for a great week!

The kids made many great memories!

Cousins

The kids are in Bakersfield for a week with their cousins!

Payton, Mason, Corben, Cole, Eliana, and Kyndal 

Crazy....or Brilliant???

The kids are going to Bakersfield to spend a whole week with Pop and Nonie. 

They will be attending Vacation Bible School...

and they will be accompanied by their 4 other cousins

Nonie and Pop will be watching 6 kids by themselves and taking them to Vacation Bible School for a full week.

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So, it crazy that I prepacked all their clothes....or brilliant?

Mason's completed suitcase 

The grab-and-go method

I prepacked a day outfit and a Pajama outfit

I also included one bag with extra undies and socks and one bag with extra outfits

I also included a bag for swim suits, bag for sunscreen, shoe bag & bags for their medications. 

Mason's day outfit bags include her coordinating bow! 

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So...thoughts....crazy or brilliant?

I am also sending the kid's hamper and giving them instructions to put all their clothes in the hamper when finished, so that I can get them all home and wash once their fun week is complete.

Thumb prints

Thumb print art work!

Corben put different color thumb prints in paint to make this train and big sun! 

Mason loves paint and used her thumb prints to make flowers, frogs and a sun!

Lets go to the Movies

The kids have been playing with their Madagascar toys for awhile....and watching the movies 1 and 2.

Today, we took them to Madagascar 3!! 

Hard to get them both to look at me, so much to see! 

Enjoying popcorn at the movies!

Growing Garden

The corn rows 

Only a few sunflowers left blooming 

The raised beds

right (tomatoes and carrots)

center (zucchini and spaghetti squash)

left (cherry tomatoes, spinach and strawberries) 

Fruit trees with kid play house 

The kids found some shade 

Fruit trees 

Our first pumpkin 

Our daily harvest:

usually 5-8 zucchini

a couple tomatoes 

and a handful of cherry tomatoes

and a few leaves of spinach

Shaver Lake

We drove up to Shaver Lake for a cool swim day 

The kids had a blast running in and out of the water 

Happy faces! 

We took a picnic lunch to enjoy

Corben said "thank you Mom for bringing so much stuff!"

Sweet boy! 

Swimming with Daddy

Dresses

Meme made Mason a bunch of cute dresses in the pattern.

Some have pockets with squeaky toys in them!

Swimming

Corben & Mason went for a quick swim this evening

Notice how wet Corben's hair is...he is going under more and more. 

Corben swimming

Corben working on swimming

Dodger Baseball Game

We met Paul, Eli, Noah and Heather, Jeff and Colby at a LA Dodger game 

Sporting team gear

Mason is wearing a ruffle shirt that Meme hand dyed 

Our Family

(we had just walked up many steps to get to the way top and the kids were already tired) 

Our seats were initially in the sun....but we moved 

Corben and Colby 

Corben, Colby, Heather and Jeff 

Mason and Aunt Heather 

We moved lower and in the shade!  Yay!

Mason and cousin Eli 

Uncle Paul with the cousins

These 4 cousins sat together the entire game, had fun dancing, eating snacks and doing the "wave" with the crowd! 

Being silly eating snacks 

Of course Mason had to join along 

Dodger Stadium 

Noah and Corben 

Noah, Corben, Mason and Eli 

All the cousins 

Mason and Corben 

Daddy and the kids after the game 

Our family after a fun baseball game!

Sorting Shapes

Mason playing with play-dough

Made all the shapes and then sorted them