Ride for Ronald

Last weekend, Karis rode 60 miles for a charity event "Ride for Ronald" - it was a beautiful day to do it, and they made great time.  He really enjoyed it - much more than when he did the 100 miles a few years ago.  The finish line was quite a fair distance, so the rest of the family headed to a local community festival but Rob provided at least a picture of the group while they were on the road.

Karis is somewhere in this pack of men riding!

On the Sabbath day, the boys got a "bee in their bonnet" and decided that they had to hit the beach one more time - even though it was cloudy and RAINY!  When telling them that it wouldn't be that nice of weather, Zachary replied "Who cares, you're wet at the beach anyway, so what difference does it make it if is raining?"  Karis decided that he couldn't argue with that, so took the boys to the beach while the lady Z-family members stayed at home nice and dry!  Blake and Evan went with them, so they had a lot of fun and we had a quick supper with the crew when they got back.

Playing soccer in our entry way when they got back from the beach

While Karis as on his ride, we headed over to the Altamonte "Let's Move" festival and enjoyed free samples, a bounce house, a "grip strength monitor" and more.  It really was fun, and the weather was perfect!

a balloon hat!

Watching the foundations

The grip strength test was actually quite fun - Zachary was able to apply 40 pounds of pressure, and Kaleb shocked us all with a whopping 35 - not bad for being 2 years younger!  Amy could only do 65 pounds of pressure - sad how the boys will soon surpass her!

Addison doing her grip strength

All of the kids enjoyed a free sample from Planet Smoothie - yum!

There was a bounce house, and true to form "Problem-solver Addison" quickly figured out that if she wanted to jump like mad and not fall, that she could hold on to the mesh windows and she'd be sturdy enough not to fall down as she jumped!  We love the first picture - that is Kaleb on the left hand side with the number 4 on his back - mid-air jump!

Showing off their face paintings

One last view of the water before heading on home...

It was hilarious - there were hoola hoops at the festival, so the kids were trying their best to do them. The adults tried too, but our hips couldn't move the small hoops fast enough to actually get it to work!  Addison tried her very best to mimic the motion of the hoops, which while she wasn't doing it properly, it was so cute that she tried to make it look like the boys were doing that we posted this video too!

Phrase of the week:  A while back when staying with Amy's mom, she said something about "waiting with baited breath" and later each boy tried to use the phrase - with both of them going wildly astray! They weren't said immediately together, so it made it all the more funny that they both tried use to use the phrase and got it so wrong!
Kaleb's phrase:  Grandma, I'm waiting with loaded breath!
Zachary's phrase:  Oh, I'm waiting with fishy breath!

Addison's words this week are "Bama" for Grandma and "Allo" - which is her word for cell phone - she always calls the cell phone (which she dearly loves!) "Allo"