August 2018!

Aug 2nd - Fake marshmallow roast because of fire ban.

Aug 5th - Swiggy crawls!

Aug 10-12th - All Church Family Reunion at Black Lake Bible Camp. Eben runs tech! Mama and Dada are Bob and Irene Hotdog and run programming. Eben and Kivi, Austin and Brylea do their devil/angel skit and Opal and Pella are in the party skit that Eben wrote. Nonnie and Poppie house the little boys.

Aug 14th - Mops Lake Day with the Slip and Slide

Aug 16th - Phantom of the Opera

Aug 22nd - Sweet Swiggy Sniffs

Aug 24th - Kinney, Schocks and Johnsons go to the Island. Again Eben alters photo. Berg and Pella play Settlers with Mama.

Aug 25th - Finish nailing up the Boy's Bathroom wall.

Aug 26th - Mama stains it to look old and weathered.

Aug 27th - Kivi lets the babies destroy her Algebra I. The construction of the great hammocks.

  Aug 29th - One final hammock is added and they stay up until the end of October.

Aug 30th - Every Wed while Jasper, Berg and Pella are at gymnastics in Dupont, Mama and the boys go on an excursion to the library, parks, gardens or friend's houses. This day we went blackberry picking and found a bunch of cute frogs.

Resurrection Sunday 2018!

Race for the Big Basket!

Swiggy's First Easter!

Close-ups of all my cute babies. 

Family Picture in the Gym - which is where we have church services - because our traditional Chapel steps have been torn down for our church's remodel.

All the kiddos on the front porch swing after service, because they sure don't fit in the basket anymore!!

Eben's Parkour 14th Birthday!

Dada took all the guys (and Kivi) to Parkour Visions to learn some tricks and play around their huge warehouse of obstacles!

Stretching:

They climbed it all.

Eben opened his presents in the dining room turned living room while the hard wood floors get redone.

Back at the house we made bacon and fruit kabobs and on the way home Dada stopped to let everyone pick out a box of cereal.

He wanted cereal for his birthday dinner.

And a mochi ball cake.

Happy Birthday, 14 year-old!

Eben, you have done so much this year! Most of all - grow! You've grown and inch a month for the last couple months! Your hair did too, but you cut it off to go to Washington DC with Nonnie in May! Your favorite things to do are play video games (you bought your own Switch),  Ripstik, go to youth group, read huge books, eat cereal and sleep in. You continue to serve with worship arts at the sound board and this year you are jumping in to leading the games at Awana with your own team! You are helpful, encouraging and patient. You are an amazing big brother and leader. You are quickly becoming one strong, godly man! We love you, Eben! Happy Birthday!

First Half of November

11.8

      

11.9 - Jessica came to take pictures of Flint!

Coal's first steps!! Our latest walker.

11.10

Every week Miss Toni comes to give Mama a hot stone massage. The girls are learning the art.

The helpers.

11.11

Auntie Tonya's Shoebox packing party.

Nonnie and Poppie's anniversary.

11.13 Swimming in the Federal Way pool.

11.16 time to take out the living room carpet.