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They almost pull this off!

| Stacy
Prizes from Pizza Hut.
Three of the kids picked them out.
As I looked in my rear-view window on the drive home it made me chuckle.  They’d forgotten they had them on, I think.  And just their plain-old-looking-around-selves looked crazy-funny to Mommy.
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How these disciples put away groceries

| Stacy

Once a month one of us goes to ALDI and buys our month’s worth of groceries.  It usually ends up being 1+ carts and about $200 worth.  How does it all get put away neatly?

TEAMWORK!

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Beau is inside there, putting it on the shelves.

They got the idea from Little House on the Prairie.

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Our Summer Extention!!

| Stacy
Our surprise vacation to the Nags Head began when we woke the kids Sunday morning at 4 A.M. We woke Beau first and told him to get ready, “we are going on a surprise vacation.” He wanted to dress first, but never pried, “where are we going?”

As we put our other pajamaed kids into the car, I heard him guess, “to see T***** and B*******.” They are friends in NC.

About an hour later he asked when we were planning to tell them where we were headed. We said he could ask one “Yes/No” question each hour.

5:00 A.M. – “Are we going somewhere we’ve been before?” ~ no6:00 A.M. – “Will we see friends there?” ~ yes7:00 A.M. – “Are we staying in Pennsylvania?” ~ no
8:00 A.M. – after goofing around with his question, we said the very next thing he asked counted as his question… “will you tell me what state we are going to?” ~ no
9:00 A.M. – he passed his question to Champ. Champ said, “is it time for a movie?” ~ no
At 10:00 A.M. I told him where we were going. He BEAMED! “SEASHORE! Champ [sic] the SEASHORE!” Poor Champ started to cry. I think he was hoping for a theme park. 😦 BUT he recovered.
I told them we’d go see the Wright Bros. Memorial and they both seemed happy about that.
At 3:00 P.M. we told them who we would be going to be vacationing with and they were all very excited to spend a week with our friends and their extended family.
The week was awesome. Very, very good weather Mon., and Tues. A rainy day Weds., found us visiting the Wright Bros., and Roanoke Island. The former was much better than the latter. Thurs., turned nice again, and Friday was gorgeous. Home again Saturday. It was amazing.
Here are some photos and videos!

Checking out container ships on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

The pool!
Our home for the week.
Walking out to see the beach on Sunday evening.

Angel loved the sand.

Champ took a spill in the rough return waves the first trip to the beach. He slowly warmed up afterward, though. He loved to play in the sand. According to Gidget, trying to surf the Atlantic is in vain.
I think Skeezix did a fine job, just the same! 😀



Mama and Angel.
Angel called the pool and the ocean, “waterside.” A/K/A – waterslide. 😀

Enjoying a dip in the hot tub.

Wednesday was gloomy. It rained on and off all day. We went to visit the Wright Brothers’ Memorial at the National Park. We’ve been studying the brothers since early August. The kids recognized a bunch of what we saw and knew a smattering, but were none-the-less whiney.

Homeschooling is not always warm and fuzzy! :@

The replica of the Wright Bros. “Flyer.” At the top of the Wright Brothers’ Memorial. Daddy and kids, jumping waves.
The boys working on synchronized splashing.
Angel became a FISH on vacation.

Our second found jellyfish.
A “mermaid’s purse,” that Mr. H. found and Beau identified! He redeemed his homeschooled self on this one!
A little Sudoku!
The girls could have played in the sand all day long!

Too busy to blog?

| Stacy

It seems so!
This weekend we celebrated the kids’ summer birthdays with our family.
We were blessed with a rain free afternoon and lots of fun.

She has more product in her hair than I do!
But she looked so cute!

“Why did I get a receipt?”

Even ANGEL got gifts… from everyone!
Must be nice being the BABY! 😉


Hmmmm. This is when I told her to stop sitting on the table.
I think she was trying to see if STANDING on the table was allowed.
😛
Can you see the orange lips they all have from orange pop?

Their new favorite thing are the gymnasts at Seabreeze [see post below].
This is the Veggie guys being acrobats!
Is frosting a legitimate art media???
Singing away!
“YUM!”

More yum!

And this photo is from Sunday. We went to what was possibly the NICEST wedding EVER, EVER. After the ceremony, but before the receiving line, the newly married couple showed “music videos” of each of them growing up and then a full set of photos of the two of them. They had an entire song’s worth of photos of the two of them, and they’ve only known one another 18 months! I leaned over to the friend I was sitting with and said, “I couldn’t tell you the last time JB and I had our photo taken!” So when we cleaned up some for the reception… we had my mom take one.

Why would this be fun?

| Stacy
Angel’s treasures! She went in the kitchen and collected all these fun trinkets!
“Take my picture, too!”
The crown she made in VBS and a picture. She LOVES her butterfly hat.
I don’t love the 23 staples holding it together.

Angel fell at Seabreeze on Friday.
Then fell again 10 minutes later.
She ripped both knees and her foot apart.
Tonight, she must have scraped it again and she started bleeding all over.
After we cleaned up the pools of blood [I wish I had a picture] I put a pressure dressing on it.
She didn’t like it… til I added the smile! ♥