The Fam

We headed out to our favorite spot to take some family pictures. We need a good one for the Christmas card that doesn't involve bathing suits! It's a little tricky taking your own pictures, but I think we got some good ones.

Maddox took this one of the two of us!

Noah

Meet Noah. He's our new nephew. He didn't want to wait until we got back from our trip. We got to meet him when we got home. Sweet boy. This makes it four new nephews for the year!

My brother and his family came for the weekend so see the kids play soccer. It is a fun tradition they try to do every year! It was a beautiful day for soccer and a picnic. We always have lots of fun when our cousins come to visit!

Meanwhile...

Whirlwind

We've been busy, busy, busy this summer. I hopefully will be able to post pictures soon of all of our business. We just got back from a 3-week trip out east. It was chocked-full of goodness, but not at all relaxing! So now I'm wanting to lay around all day and do nothing, but school is starting on Wednesday. I drove past school today and my heart skipped a beat...and then it started beating really fast, and then I got sick to my stomach. All three of the kiddos will be in that building on Wednesday. All 3 of them!

Look below for updates on our trip...I can't post things out of date order...I'm crazy like that!

Last Day at the Beach

It was another full day at the beach. I know I tried to soak in as much sun as I could. Speaking of sun, it was a little dreary first thing, but by the end of the day, the sun was bright and shining. 

lots of people!

this boat was too great of a photo prop not to use. I just wish we were all at the beach at the same time so we could have gotten an entire Sawyer family picture. 

Henry, such a big boy. I love this picture!

Another family portrait for sure. Kade, what are you doing?!

Love these three.

lots of building happened today, with daddy and grandpa

the 'rents

Blake practicing his jumping skills

drip castles are so soothing to make. Silas and I started this one.

After the beach, we headed back to the house to get cleaned up. Then we headed to the boardwalk for some miniature golf. This was a bit of a production. Eighteen people for miniature golf, please. We ended up breaking up into smaller teams. It was a little funny playing with little kids, but they had fun. It was the experience, right?!

The first day, Joel and I implemented the buddy system. Hilarious. Brent later wondered what the kids would even do if they lost their buddy. They weren't always very good at it, but they tried. It was always a comfort when their were more adults around to be the buddy!

we pretty much took over the place!

daddy always gave them pointers...like a dad does!

Mr. Henry, was so into it. He didn't always hit the ball, but he was focused. So cute.

The boardwalk was so picturesque with all the seagulls overhead. Beautiful.

Grandma and Grandpa gave the kids spending money each night. They gave them the option of spending it each night or saving it until the last night. Our kids saved most of it, so we had to quickly make our purchases before heading back for pizza. This wasn't the first night on the boardwalk, so they all had a pretty good idea what they wanted. It was fun to watch them pick stuff out. It was obvious they were loving it too! Thanks for the treat, Grandma and Grandpa!

It was a little late by the time we got back for pizza. We were so hungry! We had yummy boardwalk pizza (probably would have been better if it wasn't cold already!), put the kids to bed, then sat down to enjoy a drink and the olympics. I forgot to say, this was pretty much what we did each night. You can't not watch the olympics, right? I was kind of bummed they were on during this trip. Would have liked to have watched it at home when I wasn't crazy busy visiting family! Oh well. It was fun to watch it with everyone too. 

I hate saying goodbye to the beach. I love it so much. We'll see where our life takes us, but I tell Brent a lot that I hope to end up at the beach for good someday. A girl can dream...