We had a busy, fun-filled Fourth of July weekend. On Saturday afternoon, we went to Kim and Thane's house for a BBQ. I don't think I have any pictures though.
After church on Sunday, we met up with Grandpa and Grandma, Auntie Kelsey, Mallory, Uncle Thane, Auntie Kim, Elias and Malachi at Sehome Arboretum for a short hike. It was a nice walk that ends at an observation tower, but unfortunately, it was too overcast to get much of a view. Again, no pictures:(
Sunday evening, we watched some friend's kids so they could go out on a date. Annaliese loves playing with their two oldest (LJ and Keziah,) Faith is Haleigh's age and they play together pretty well and Eden is 4 months old. They mostly just played outside although Haleigh was pretty fascinated with Eden and liked holding her and making sure she had enough toys to play with!
On Monday, we decided to go pick some blueberries; we let my parents know where we were going so they met us there, along with Kelsey, Ben, and Mallory. The kids just played amongst the blueberries and Kyle and I managed to pick 34 pounds of berries!
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| That's Annaliese way at the end of the row, then Ben in the red jacket and Mom picking berries! |
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| Haleigh had her own bucket as well; after walking around with it for 15 minutes, she had exactly one blueberry! |
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| Yum!!! |
Monday evening we headed over to the Potter's house with the rest of our small group. It's been hard to coordinate schedules during the summer so we combined a Fourth of July party with a short Bible Study!
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| Faith |
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| Mandi and Eden |
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| Kyle doing one of the 'popper' fireworks |
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An attempt at the kids...none of them would look because it was too sunny!
(Back: Conner, Annaliese, Keziah. Front: Eden, LJ, Faith, Haleigh, Ryan) |
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| Having a nerf-gun war |
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| Jen teaching Annaliese how to shoot it! |
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| Sparklers! |
We had quite a few fireworks to set off...I only got a few pictures because most of them were too noisy for the girls and they sat in my lap for the whole night! Annaliese kept asking when we could be done with fireworks, but she still said she had fun at the end of the night!
Oh my goodness-- I read your blog regularly, but how did I not get the memo that you were pregnant until just now?! Congratulations! I can't believe you will be having her so soon!
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