July 4th-10th

Highlights from this week include:

*Celebrating the 4th of July

AND
"family" birthdays

at our 

family who is not blood related's

house-

in the NEVER ENDING rain

Even though we couldn't set off

little fireworks,

we still had a great time 

eating

and

laughing

and

making fun of Barry Manilow's face lift during 

Washington D.C.'s 

4th of July show.

(I know, we are SOOOOO bad...)

We celebrated out nation's birthday,

as well as Jungle Girl's

(April 26th),

Super Dad's and my dad's

(July 3rd),

and Baby Girl's upcoming birthday

(July 14th).

There was plenty of cake for EVERYONE...

*Saw "Despicable Me 2" with

Nana and Papa

A-DOR-A-BLE!!!

Just as good as the first one,

in my humble opinion.

It was worth sitting in the front row,

which we had to,

since we were late... :0)

*Spent the evening after the 4th

over at another friends' home,

eating

and

laughing

and 

making fun of each other

(Yes, we are a BRUTAL crowd to hang with!)

I got to also spend time that evening

with a really good friend of mine from college,

and meet her husband and 1 year old son

for the first time!

It was a lovely visit...

*Got Jungle Girl all packed and sent her away

for a week of 

church camp at 

Camp ACC

She was nervous to leave us for a week,

but our children's minister 

was going to be there

as well as

several of her church friends,

so I knew she would be in good hands.

I think it is good for the kiddos to go 

AWAY

from me and their Daddy

every once and awhile.

It gives them a chance to be independent-

in small doses-

and find out more about themselves.

I was very proud of her for

pushing the fear aside and going!

*Began homeschooling again

with Baby Girl and Little Wild Man

I like doing more of a year round

approach to school,

and I like to 

EASE the kiddos back into it

after our 6 week Summer break.

*To make the schooling transition more fun,

we slipped in some

learning using the movie

Despicable Me 2

I will be posting about all the activities

we did throughout this next week,

so make certain to come back and see

what we did!

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