August Family Time

All of my family came into town on the 15th for the weekend to hang out and go and see Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Tuacahn.  Then my parents stayed through the next week.  It was a fun week minus the part where we all spread a bunch of sickness around to each other!

Friday afternoon when everyone got here they stopped for lunch before going and dropping everything off at the condo where they were staying.  Becca stayed with us! Then they all came back over for dinner that night.  My parents got there later that night and came and ate dinner too.  It was fun to have everyone here!

Darn it's blurry! 

Fun with Uncle Erich and Aunt Allie! 

Hungry hippos with Uncle Josef! 

 Saturday we headed over to go swimming at great grandma's pool.  It was a nice refreshing morning swim!

Clara loves the water and would just stick her face right down in it.  

Calin enjoys playing on the deck or on the steps and playing with the toys.
He is not so fond of putting his face in the water. 

Enjoying the water! 

 After our swim we went to Irmitas for lunch.  All except for my mom who is not fond of Irmitas food.  Some of the rest of us aren't either but went anyways.

We all had to sport the sombreros for a photo op.  Josef was not amused and did not participate.  

 After lunch Robby went to go pick up our new shed and then do some lazor tag with Jimmy and Preston.  My siblings and I and Summer and Allie all went to get pedicures while my mom and dad watched Calin and Clara.   Then we all met back at our house and my family was so awesome to help us carry the shed to the backyard.

Becca, Summer and I at pedicures! 

Carrying the shed.  The boxes were super heavy! It was hilarious watching them carry these! Poor Becca! 

After that we all went and got ready for dinner and Tuacahn.  Calin and Robby stayed home for dinner while Clara and I went and ate with everyone else.  Robby left Calin with his mom and then met us at Tuacahn.  Clara came to Tuacahn with us and stayed at the show care.  She did great and it was nice to have her close so I could go feed her during intermission since we still can't get her to take a bottle!

Reading stories with Aunt Becca before Tuacahn! 

 The next morning we had french toast over at my grandmas and then everyone came and hung out before we headed to church on Sunday.  It was so fun to see them all and it's always good to get everyone together!

Josef and Summer enjoying some Clara time! 

 The rest of the week with my parents we enjoyed swimming, walks, playing at our house inside and out, reading books, going to parks, and just having Grandma and Grandpa and Mia around for a while.  Unfortunately, we all had gotten colds right before everyone came, and then I got the flu on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.  It was so nice to have my parents there to help with the kids since I was miserable, but then I passed it to them and my poor mom and grandma got sick that weekend.  Robby also got it on Saturday.  Thankfully the kids never got it though!!

It was a great week though and we always love and enjoy having grandma and grandpa here to play with!

Calin went through a week phase of wearing his glasses all the time while my parents were  here.

Climbing trees with Grandma at Great Grandma's house! 

Walking around the block at Great Grandma's 

Clara was in her stand up mode and was a little concerned that grandpa was not standing up! 

Calin started a funny game with grandma and grandpa where he would tell them to "stand up" and then throw the bean bag and they would fall down.  It was his "david and goliath" game.  My parents were good sports to play this game over and over again!  He usually crashed down with them too! 

Playing at the river downtown with grandma! 

Grandma taught him how to make a parade with his animals.
He loved doing this every time we were over at Great Grandma's! 

Grandma also taught him to stand all his animals up on the blocks.  He also did this every time.

It was a great week and it is nice for me to have the company and the help with the kids.  They are also great to help with house projects and my dad was great to help Robby get the base for the shed started so that we can get that put up! We (especially me) are always sad to see my parents head back to Oregon.  I wish we could see them more often!  Thank goodness for face time and Skype!