To sum it all up, here are some pictures!
Morgan put up a slip n slide in his backyard under a canopy. All the kids loved it, and I stayed out in the heat just long enough to take a few pictures!
Lucy and Cassidy were, as always, inseparable! Whether they were holding Archie, doing a nail spa or playing dress-up, they were together constantly! Thanks for being such a great, patient cousin Cass!
Christa is amazing. She had bought all kinds of art supplies and fun things for the kids to do together, and then she actually followed through and helped them do it all! My kids love to paint and they don't get to do it that much at home, so it was a treat!
Elliott and Will were always having some kind of fun together. Gramma Karen bought some painters tape and Christa let the kids have a ball! here are the cars lining up....but where is the road?
Ahhhh!
Again, Christa's foresight saved the day!! She bought nerf darts to spare and the bullets flew!
Christa, what would we do without you?! She even made goo for the kids to play with; brave lady!
Night swimming! My favorite part of living in the Valley of the Sun.
Ok, day swimming isn't so bad either. Here we are at Cathy Garino's house for our fourth of July feast!
These are some pics from the Mercury WNBA game that Morgan got us tickets to. Good food, good people and good fun!
Juliet fantasizing about her not-so-secret crush on Steve Nash.
Enjoying the game from the box seats!
My favorite chubby, little man (this caption refers to the bellow picture, not the above....not that I needed to clarify, but just in case hee hee).
And Now (why is all this suddenly underlined? I don't know, just go with it) onto the bloopers part of our story:
We had so many injuries this trip! Not my family necessarily, but everyone! (ok, Ruth mostly!) it all started with a beautiful, wonderful sisterly jog around the golf course by Morgan's house at night. We were just finishing our first lap when BOOM, Ruth was down flat to the deep bass sound of her kneecap striking the pavement. The next day her baby developed an ear infection, the day after that, her little Karver was all splotchy with a mystery ailment:
Guilio mistook my Clear Care Contact solution for contact rinse and put straight peroxide into his eye:
Some other mishaps:Ruth got stung by a wasp while night swimming (it is now a full-blown infection on her arm)
Juliet, Morgan, Christa, Chantel, Warren, Pappa and Elliott all shared a cold
Lucy kicked Lund in the ear in the pool and burst his eardrum
and Elliott woke up one morning with blisters all over his lips
In spite of all this, we had a great time and would do it again in a second!
1 comment:
great recap!!! I still have sooo many pictures to post. Also, we have some of Lucy's American Doll stuff and even her doll. I will try to get it into the mail this week.
Lots of warm hugs from our warm end of the world!
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