Oops...More Pictures!

Continuing my "Quarantine Catch Up" and found some
pictures from last Summer and Fall on our old phones.  

George's 5th Birthday

An "Amazing Race" themed Father's Day scavenger hunt

Brothers

7 Months Old

Braces and Head Gear

Spent a week at CranHill Ranch

Claire made it to the top of the climbing wall several times.  

That is her on the right, and Joe climbing to catch up to her on the left.

Charlie loved his first summer of camping.

Turtle races, Tye Dye, Archery and the Craft Hut.

Now that's a recipe for some camping fun.

George's teacher helped him write his journal about camping.

Joe and Sam with their sons, Charlie and SooHo Forest

Back to School

FYI...Montessori schools begin the year with empty shelves and 

add to them as they learn their work throughout the year.

Loving his "Brain Stretching" work

A sad day. A scary brain bleed landed my dad in the ICU.  

George's superhero cutout was kept close to his heart.

On his road to recovery.

George's Lego Shark

My Skeleton Sons:

more sweet than spooky

This just cracked me up.  Henry so badly wanted to go on Sandy, but when he actually began his ride, this was the extent of his enthusiasm.  I think someone has outgrown this fun.

So...these are the pictures I often post of Charlie on our blog.  

Cute kid, big smile. 

But just being honest...these are often my days with him.  He hasn't been the mellow, easy going kid we were expecting for our fourth child. He sure does have a flare for the dramatic. But we love him nontheless. 

Okay, I think that's all of them for now!

Halloween 2019

Our Little Lion

Our Excellent Elephant

Our Great Gorilla

Our Terrific Toucan

 

Summer Continued

Well, it's been awhile since I've last visited our blog.  And that's being generous.  But I'm gonna try to do what I call the "Quarantine Catch Up".  Let's be real though.  Joe and I are working from home while homeschooling three kids and managing one extremely high maintance toddler. So even though we are quarantined, there's really not much down time. Small goals and realistic expectations are essential. So we go for long walks. I'm actually reading a grown up book. And I've tackled a couple small organizing projects.  I cleaned out my office supplies cabinet.  That was fun.  I organized my basement pantry area.  Also satisfying.  And I've been ticking away at a yearlong (+) picture project.  Let's just say that once Claire turned one, I stopped any sort of family album.  Sorry boys.  But you know, life gets busy.  So last summer I began the tedious task of sorting through all our random pictures, both electronic and physical copies.  Oh man, this could take me into retirement!  But now I am literally trapped at home with my picture project staring me in the face every day, which has turned out to be great motivation.  

One of the aspects of catching up on my pictures is to update the blog.  I'm not really sure why I even care.  It's really just for our family, but it is kind of a fun way to watch our family grow over the years. And I suppose it is a small creative outlet for me.  And at the end of the day, I just can't give up on something that I began so many years into.  So here we go.  Back at it.  I believe I had left off on our summer fun of 2019.  Wow, that seems like a lifetime ago.  Just look at all those social gatherings!  What was that even like?!  

Claire and Henry enjoyed another summer of tennis lessons.

So proud to show off his strong legs.

The three big kids completed their Summer Service Projects for church.  

They each received $10 to invest in Kingdom Building work.  

George helped prepare dinner for "Beppa", "Papa", Minerva and Bernie.  Papa picks George up from school every day and drops him off at home. These two have a fun relationship, so George was eager to do something nice for him.  He said that Papa likes hot dogs, so a hot dog dinner it was!

Henry planned and helped prepare dinner for neighbors Mr. K. and Mitch.  He did a great job making and delivering invitations, and then preparing the hamburgers for dinner.

Claire sold baked goods to raise money for CARE Africa.  Her goal was to raise enough money to send one girl to school for a year.  She met her goal...and then some!

 

Henry got ahold of the camera and took this little gem of a picture.

...and this one. 

Well, I suppose that's the rest of the pictures from last summer.  

I'll move onto the fall pictures in the next day or two.