Summer Vacation 2015

Our family vacation to Hilton Head! 7 years straight! We love it!

Tie Dye

Every summer our church has a camp for kids. Bailey and Jesse have been the last two years. Almost everyday they do some sort of theme - crazy socks, Hawaiian day, tie dye, etc. So this year we decided to make tie dye shirts. Thankfully Target had cheap tie dye kits! I bought the kits a week or more before but just didn't have time to do it until the day before! It worked but would have been much less stressful if I had done it earlier! Anyway, we all made a shirt. I wish I had taken a picture of all of them but I didn't. Anyway, Bailey's turned out the best but Jesse loves his shirt! He asks to wear it a lot! Maybe next summer we will do it again!

Blueberries Blueberries Blueberries

We have a blueberry patch 5 minutes from our house and so this year I decided we would go pick us some blueberries. So off we went with a couple of friends. The Berry Patch gives you buckets and then you pick as many as you want. Jesse and Bailey did pretty good gathering but Jack didn't care too much for it. He played with some friends that went with us while we did all the work. Anyway, we picked 1 3/4 lbs. and I made lots of blueberry muffins and a blueberry pie. They were yummy. So yummy that we went back the next week with some more friends and picked 2 lbs of blueberries! I froze most of those to have throughout the year! So let me know next year and for a small fee I will pick you some! :)

Independence Day

We had a great day celebrating with family in TN this year. Bailey and Jesse got to spend the whole week with grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. Jack still a little too little stayed home with mom and dad. The fireworks show to end the day was the best! Thankful for our freedom!

4 sweet kids!

 Nany and Granddad with the kids

 These two are something else!

 Jack was happy eating homemade ice cream!

watching fireworks!

 Nany the ninja!

 Wonder Woman!

the first time my kids have broken beans

10 Years

Last year was our 10th anniversary! I know and I'm just now blogging about it! We decided to do something fun and different. We flew to Seattle spent a few days and then rented a car and drove down the coast to Los Angeles. It was beautiful! A little chilly which I was not expecting in July (yes our anniversary is in November but we celebrated early to have good weather). We loved stopping in little towns and seeing the country. It was just gorgeous on the coast. 10 days was not nearly enough time but we had to fit it in. We also got to see some good friends from our time in Istanbul and that was really nice to catch up and see them in a different setting. Anyway, hard to believe it has been ten years. Blessed and thankful to be on the journey together!