For Labor Day weekend, we decided that we were going to stay at home and WORK on a 100 house projects that we wanted to get done around the house. It was crazy how many things had built up and needed to be done. We mixed in fun with the work though for a bit! But, by the end of the weekend we had accomplished significant things like 1) Amy completed 23 hours of continuing education, 2) three meals spent in the company of friends, 3) the entire garage cleaned and organized, 4) our master bedroom completely removed of all "to be donated" items that have been sitting there for literally years!, 5) Kaleb's room organized and de-cluttered (HUGE JOB) and 6) Toy room culled through for baby toys. It was so satisfying to get everything done! And exhausting.....
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| Kids are taking a break in the garage from the work |
We also had the family birthday party for Addison - finally wrapping up the fourth celebration (yes, we counted, and our kids do indeed end up celebrating four separate times for each birthday - apparently the Zs like birthdays!)
We also had the chance to babysit Sandy - Amy's cousin's Jason's dog while he was at Epcot with friends. Addison had a good time feeding her carrots and walking her! Sandy wasn't too sure about the boys, and would chase them in the house barking. Poor Kaleb would run into a bedroom and slam the door shut! She got used to us over the course of the day, and Addison was quite proud of her relationship with little Sandy!
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| Walking Sandy to the end of the driveway and back |
Sunday we headed over to Cochrans with Js and Touchards to have supper and play in the pool. They put up a pool swing, and William would pull them high in the air and then let them drop into the pool. The kids had a blast!
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| Zachary is about to drop! |
Kaleb joined Pathfinders this year at Forest Lake Church (our home church), and they have Induction recently. He is looking forward to the camp-outs and possibly going to Osh-Kosh next year!
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| Kaleb and Kieran |
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| His class |
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| Watching the program with Grandma! |
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| It is a huge club! |
Addison and Kaleb continue to love school at FLEC - it has been positive thus far. Addison is now suggesting that she can walk in by herself. Nooooooo - where did our little girl go?
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| Mom weeps in the van as Addison walks herself in! Okay - not really, but there was a twinge inside for sure! |
Work has been a little lighter for Amy lately, so one evening she took Zachary out for date night.....to a book store! He had never been to a book store because we always order off of Amazon and order e-books from the library - he was quite grumpy about going because how could a bookstore be fun....until he got there and was AMAZED. He asks to go all the time now! :) After a date night with Zachary, of course the other two get their special time as well so Amy took Kaleb to build-a-bear one night and then the next week Addison had to go as well! They had fun eating out and then getting to go to build-their-bear!
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| Stuffing it just right! |
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| The proud owner of a new bear! |
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| Putting the "heart" into the bear! |
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| And here she is with her Elsa bear! |
In other random pictures:
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| Where is Addison? This is taking the idea of a bubble bath to a brand new level! |
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| Oh, there she is!! Complete with swim goggles to keep the bubbles out of her eyes! |
And in a random video - one weekend both the Js and Cs came boating with us and six of the kids decided to get on the tube at once! they had a great time, and Daddy kept it very calm!
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We finally got fishing wire to hang these glass ornaments that we made last year while in Corning! Each Z family member made one. Can you guess by color and size who made what?
Answer: Red/white (nod to Canada - Karis), Multi-colored (Zach), Blue and red (Kaleb), Blue and purple (Addison), Blue and White (Amy) |
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