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We have been happily married for 19 wonderful years. God has blessed us richly with 2 daughters and a son. We are followers of Jesus Christ, and strive to follow Him faithfully! We believe the Bible to be the absolute truth!! We are a home school family who look to honor God in every part of our daily lives! Remember to live with a grateful attitude! When you start to complain or have a negative attitude...remember to praise God for Who HE is and the GREAT things HE has done!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

In a Nutshell...

So the last 2 weeks have been fun and super busy!
We had our parents up for 2 weeks and Jessica's brother
and his family up for a week.

Elizabeth was sunning herself on our picnic table

Mimi meets Matthew again...the girls adore her!

Pop and Matthew love each other right away!

Cousins!

Bocce ball fun

Elizabeth & Isaac were the BEST of friends!

Liana is SO sweet and cute!

Valerie & Liana could be sisters!

Wading pool fun!

They would sit in the swing and blow their whistles
and run back to the pool to fill them up!

NERDS!
They would play chess on the computer instead of just getting
the game out of the closet!

Itasca State Park fun

Cute Liana

Hello?

Sweet cousins!

Our darling brother & sister

So cute!

Amy & Isaac

Lawrence & Liana



Family Picture



They are so brave!

Isaac was so excited about this tree!
He asked me to take his picture here!

Picnic

Isaac's first beach experience

Elizabeth & Isaac were putting "sand blankets"
on their legs. ITCHY!

TALL tower that we climbed!

Mimi didn't climb the tower and chose to hold Matthew

Beautiful Lady Slippers that we found at the park

Dirty faced kids! This is what happens after an
afternoon of fun at Grandma's house!

This is how they got dirty!

They all love Ashleigh

So this is what happens when a 2 year old goes to bed
at night and is NOT sleepy!

Captain Craig

Fisher Lawrence

Great fish Amy!!! Watch out...it's pokey!

The only 2 people who caught fish that day!

Here is Jessica's awesome catch!!!!

A great sunset to end our fishing trip!

Auntie Laurie meets and loves Matthew

My Pop

The 13th annual Raboin croquet tournament.
There were 20 people playing
( I think)

The master croquet man himself enjoying the shade

Mother & Daughter

Great-Grandma enjoys her 2 great grandsons

Fun fun fun!

Croquet partners

Valerie, Elizabeth & Isaac love Paul Bunyan

Elizabeth's face was priceless at the fireworks!

...so was Isaac's

Liana loved them too

4th of July parade

My 2 men!

Pop & Matthew relax together...so cute!

And finally...the jam I made! YUMMY!

4 comments:

Rebecca said...

What a fun two weeks!! I so wish I could have been there. All of the kids are just so cute. I miss you guys

Jake and Ashley Hodapp said...

I want to know why Craig is holding the fish that YOU caught...

Visitor said...

Wow! This all looks like tons of fun! You have such a beautiful and sweet family, Jess!

Melanie said...

That last comment was from me, by the way. I don't know why it said that I was a "visitor"!

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