Great Play Day

So last weekend Paul and I joined the crew at a local hardware store to make fire trucks. It's a kids event they put on every couple weeks and it was great. Here are the guys working together on their project. Heidi and Kamili worked on one while Paisley helped Makai. You can see Jenee in the background wrangling the little ones :) Here's another picture of the crew hard at work - Zamarah and Zavian were still too little to join in the fun - so they entertained each other. Afterward we headed off to lunch (at a noisy restaurant :) - when you have this crew you need to be sure the restaurant is as loud as they are. We had a wonderful time together. Papa and I were missing them after being gone on vacation a couple weeks, so this was a great way to catch up.

A Day at the Park with the Kiddos

So last weekend Paul had another Sunday off, so we picked up Heidi and Aaron's kiddos and headed for the park. We decided to take them down to a park that has a great duck pond. Here are Paul and the kids feeding the ducks - I'm the official bread hander outer :)

Here's a close-up of Paul with the kids.

We packed some juice drinks and fresh fruit and had a fun little picnic. The weather was perfect, we played on the toys and we had a lovely time with them. Looks like they enjoyed it too! Such fun.

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Happy Halloween

Heidi and Jenee took the kiddos (and my honorary grand-daughter, Naomi) to the pumpkin patch this month. Here's the crew of kids posing for a picture -And here are Zamarah and Zavian posing on the hay bales for their first pumpkin patch trip. So cute!! Tonight we're all going to Heidi's for a potluck Halloween dinner, a trip to the church carnival and trick or treating. Watch for more pics next week!

This month was CRAZY with Stamp Till you Cramp, Disneyland, a Conference in Reno, Pumpkin Patch trips and Halloween - so we didn't get to do our regular Halloween class. But I thought I'd share a project we made previously - we took the cue from Martha Stewart with the Witch's broom treat bag filled with popcorn, added a pretzel for her stick and an adorable little tag - so cute!!

Hope you all have a Happy and Safe Halloween!!

Father's Day!

Sunday Paul had to work, but Jenee, Heidi, Aaron and myself took all 6 kiddos to see the new Toy Story 3 in 3-D. Zamarah was very uncertain of the loudness and I had to take her out at the beginning, but then she fell asleep and slept through the entire movie - so all was well. It was a really cute movie. Then we all headed over to Heidi and Aaron's where Paul met us after work for a backyard BBQ - here are some pictures of the kiddos playing - and swinging -

and in the blow up pool -

They had such a good time - I am so glad they are all close by and we can get together like this. More pics tomorrow!