Well, poor Doggy Bones gets left out of many of the pictures so he gets the first one today. He was just chillin' with me while we watch the kids try to fly a kite.
Papaw was giving the kids a kite flying lesson right before he left for the airport. It was a really windy day. This was about as high as we could get it. I think if we had been in an open field, they might have been able to get it higher.
All the girls had very wind blown hair that day. It looks like Regan is looking right at me, but she really did not know I was taking a picture. She is quickly becoming a beautiful young lady.
Haha! This one cracks me up. This is how excited Katherine gets when we have one of her favorite foods! If you look closely you can see some on her plate. Do you see it? Yep, boiled shrimp. Jonathan and I are usually the last one to finish our food on shrimp days because we spend all of our time peeling Katherine's. She typically eats around 30.
On the actually holiday this week, we spent the day with our friends. They invited us to hike a mountain, walk around a reserve, and go to the beach (plus all the meals for the day). This was on our way to the mountain. The kids were so excited to see several butterflies.
We started climbing and the steps seemed to never end. Literally 3,000 steps later we made it to the top. This was one of the few places that had rails.
Benjamin looks like he's thinking "you can still smile, smile for the picture, then you can collapse" We didn't know how much further we had to go, so a photo op was a good excuse to rest for a minute. We were actually very close to the top. The kids were so tired when they got to the top. Lauren was so happy that her daddy agreed to carry her back down the mountain :)
The original plan was to rent bikes to ride around the reserve, but there were too many people. We just walked it instead.
Lauren loved that she got to have a couple of little flowers. She was so happy.
It had started to sprinkle on our way to the beach, and Katherine was prepared. The rain actually held off all day until we headed for home. This is a shot of two very excited girls about finally getting to the beach. The kids had been waiting all day for this moment. I was also looking forward to it because I knew the kids would love it (I had even packed each of them a complete change of clothes because I was going to let them have fun and get wet.) BUT when we arrived, THIS is the beach we found....
...not exactly the cleanest beach. It was covered in trash from the sea and from people. I couldn't even let the kids take their shoes off to put their feet in the water because I was afraid they might get cut by glass or something. They were such good sports though. They didn't complain one time about not getting to play, but just enjoyed the water. I reassured them anyways that we will be going to a beach soon in America :) something to look forward to!
I still needed to get the "beach pictures" The lady on the left just had to jump in and try to get a picture with the kids. Her friend was off to the side snapping the shots. Benjamin looks frozen. It was starting to cool off because of the storm coming in and it was really windy.
We managed to get a family picture too.
Finally, this was the group shot of all of us that went out together. It was a fun day and I we all slept soooooo good that night.
