For Father's Day this year, we got up and the kids took charge (at their father's request) for making all breakfast! They did a great job serving up a delicious meal of pancakes and other culinary delights - good job kiddos!
The church also had a drive-through Father's Day event complete with "football fever" that Zachary and Addison got out to enjoy as well - even though they aren't fathers! :)
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| Snapping picture of Karis and Jennifer, who is the magic behind these events! |
And we capped off celebrating Father's Day with having Grandpa Lyle over to celebrate him as a father, and his birthday!
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| Happy Birthday Lyle! |
June is also Blake's birthday and they headed out to Top Golf to enjoy some fun. It is hard to believe how old they are getting - we've known Blake since he was 18 months old!
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| The celebration boys! |
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| Covid-19 requires masks now so these are the masked bandits :) |
Speaking of knowing the B kids forever, Jennifer will sometimes send me pictures that come up on her Facebook memories feed - look at these little babies!
We also took our first outing to the beach in June along with the B and C families! The weather was lovely, but the beach was crowded and with Covid-19 going around, we tried to stay as far from other people as possible. We didn't even shower as we were leaving because there were too many people there, so we just drove home sandy and showered there! The water and sky was beautiful that day!
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| Digging to China in the sand! |
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| He is growing up way too fast - love you Zach! |
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| The moms sitting in the water with our chairs to keep cool! |
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| Selfie as we get ready to head out to the beach! |
Recently, we went out to the lake and noticed that there was a boat there that had to be "jumped" because their battery went dead. We sat watching the whole affair and then went to put our boat into the water.....only to realize that OUR battery was dead! What are the chances of that!? We were so fortunate that the jumper cables/truck etc were all there from the first boat, so they just moved the cables over to our boat and away we went! They were our helper angels that day for sure!
Our boating outings blend together, but on one outing we had some of the kids friends out with us (Erick, Lucas, Cristian and Becca). We ended up being caught in a rainstorm (thankfully no lightning which of course we avoid), so it was quite a wet ending to our day as we quickly took the kids back to their house (two of them live on the lake) and then back to home -- but as we were taking them back, the boys decided to be wild and crazy and try to stand up on the tubes (we were boating slowly) and ride them! Several of them did get up into the standing position!
Addison has been losing teeth like crazy, which is a good thing because her mouth is tiny and she doesn't have enough room for her adult teeth. The dentist in fact has told us that she needs to have FIVE teeth pulled to try and make room! She helped us to save us money by pulling one out herself :)
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| She delights in showing Amy when it gets so wiggly that it can poke straight out! Yech! |
Random pictures:
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| Mom and Lyle have been coming over on Sundays to watch Little House on the Prairie (such a fun new Covid tradition!) |
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| And our Covid-19 walks.....love her holding her Daddy's hand! |
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| Speaking of Covid-19, the cases in Florida are spiking. Pray for us that we will continue to remain safe and not get it! |
This picture requires a little more explanation. Back in March on ski trip, Amy had a nasty few falls that put the kebosh on the skiing for her. Since then, she has been plagued by a difficulty in sleeping and can't lay on her side like she normally does. Four months in, Karis says "Wasn't it your left knee that you hurt skiing?" Yes, it was. So his response "You can't lay on your left side because your muscles/nerves have tightened up after your injury and it is causing nerve pain -- you need to work out the tightness by doing a foam roller". Amy immediately started doing the roller (see below, which is basically putting this roller underneath you and rolling your body back and forth -- it is a bit tricky). Anyway, it totally WORKED! Amy can sleep on her left side again! Why is it that it took four months to figure this out!?
Mornings are lazy in the Z house on this summer vacation - staying around in PJs. Look at these kids - little stair steps! Kaleb has been growing like a weed the last 6 months, while Zachary has taken a growing pause (he is about 5 ft 9.5 inches, which he is not happy about!).
Addison does love to do posed selfies, and her big brother has such a soft spot for her that he will do much of anything for her!
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| Kisses to all of our loved ones! :) |
