{A little Road trip}

A few days after we finished school, the kids and I took a day road trip.

After we finished at the orthodontist, we headed to Mushroom Rock State Park.

It was a beautiful day, blue skies, lots of critters out and we ad a blast just spending time together!

We ended at an old fort which was pretty cool before heading to meet my nephew for some ice cream! Great way to spend a day together!

June 2018

Our school year ended and we were off and running heading into summer! 

June brought baseball season for the boys! 

Along with baseball came 6:30am swim practice 5 mornings a week and

 Saturday swim meets!

June also brought the garden growing and morning glories, 

one of my summer favorites!

More swim for these four...

Clara, Wesley and I trekked to Denver in June for clinic appts at Children’s.

My sweet friend, C, came to have lunch with us!

I have missed this place...

8 months is a long time without writing here. We are all alive and well, life just got busy. Catching up seems overwhelming but I’ll try with just highlights of what’s happened in life. 

And hopefully I can get back to posting regularly here soon!

{Happy Birthday to you...}

Clara's birthday was the last morning we were at the cabin. We made cinnamon coffee cake for breakfast and added candles for her. This girl is growing up fast, I can't believe she is 8!

Nate gave this idea for birthday cake a 2 thumbs up.

Opening her packages from her brothers & sisters...

Here was her big special package that has been waiting for this day...

A new American Girl doll that she promptly named, Katie!

This wasn't just any AG doll though! Thanks to the team at A Step Ahead Prosthetics, she looks like Clara & Clara loves here!

Happy 8th Birthday Clarabelle, we love you!

After breakfast and gifts, the packing started! Goodbye beautiful, wonderful weekend... until we come again!

Kayaking...

Our weekend at the park was awesome, we biked, walked, sat around the fire and kayaked...

Wesley was watching his sisters out in the kayak...

Abigayl was testing the stability of her Kayak...

Wesley and I went down to the dock to pick up Clara so the older girls could head back out on the water...

Lots of smiles as they headed back out together, 

                                          I am so thankful for the friendship of sisters...

These little kayaks kept busy between all the kids, they spent about 10 hours on the water. They watched geese, a deer, turtles, blue herons and just enjoyed the beauty of creation!

"Wishing Flowers"

Wesley was so excited when we woke up Saturday morning and headed out of the cabin. All around it in the grass were thousands of "wishing flowers!" We spent hours running through them, blowing their seeds in the breeze and making LOTS of wishes!

"When you look at a field of dandelions,

you can either see a hundred weeds or a hundred wishes!"

~unknown

We loved running through the wishing flowers and sending their seeds with the wind...