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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

SUMMER

Well summer came and went and it was full. We have just started our school routine for the year and are having a great time, but before summer becomes to distant of a memory, I thought I'd give it one more post!

4th of July at the O'Neal's new house

Sarah is out-pacing Amelia

A visit from Cathy

We celebrate Amelia and Judah's birthdays together every year because their birthdays are only 8 days apart. This year we had a 2 day celebration which included a pool party at our Y and a party at home with family and out of town friends.

Can you see Judah smiling? If not, just know-this is a picture of Judah with a big grin as he comes down the water slide on daddy's lap!

Pull apart mermaid cake-I get a little bolder every year

Annalise had a blast at the party.

6 year old Amelia-with pierced ears

Patience

So many friends that we love

Two parties means two cakes-mermaid for the pool, mini-excavator for home

Homemade pizza is a birthday tradition

What to get a boy who is turning 4-aquatic frogs of course! Meet Dump Truck and Thomas.

After all those parties it was time for VBS-this year's theme was "The King is Coming."

Our castle room

Lady Kathleen spent her week with us helping out with VBS

Summer in the South always means more wildlife.

1 of our 3 bunnies born this spring

Cool spider that lives on our back deck-we specifically asked the bug man not to spray him. This guy is big and he eats bees-he's the Mr. T of spiders.

Summer is not complete without a trip to Myrtle Beach

Amelia wanted to dye her hair purple-we thought that would be a fun beach look!

Judah rarely poses for the camera anymore, but he couldn't resist pointing out the cow poop!

While at the beach we visited a very neat Gardens area that had some awesome aviaries and natural zoo.

Judah was loving the camera that day!

We also took in a show at Medieval Times and the kids (and David and I) loved it!

Well, this concludes our summer blog post, but just a few pictures of the youngest, who is changing by the minute:

Yes this is a picture of water bottles in our fridge. I took it because I asked Annalise to put the water bottles in the fridge and she neatly arranged them all-I was impressed with my little 18 month old!

Yum-blackberries

The kids were playing firefighters-I think Annalise was the dalmatian since she has the firefighter hat and the dog headband!

Hi-yo

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

CAMPING

We had such a fun night a couple of days ago camping in our backyard-here are some pictures to tell the story:

So first you have to set up the tent:

Then you have to have dinner (hot dogs and s'mores) by the fire:

Then it's time for stories and flashlight fun:

Finish off the evening with a Scary Story:

And then it's off to bed! The best part about camping in the yard is that you can actually go inside to sleep. We let Amelia and Judah stay in the tent until 9:30, but they were ready to come in and sleep-they had been hearing bears walking around in the woods after all :)

Friday, May 18, 2012

A Busy Spring

We had a very busy spring, hence the lack of blogging, but here are some pictures of what we've been up to.

Annalise with her friend Lydia

We planted our first garden this year.

Grandma and Grandpa Weber came for a visit

And we all headed to Surfside

There were lots of these jellyfish on the shore-so much fun to explore. We found a crab eating one!

Annalise really liked Grandpa!

These frog creations by Judah
are one of the fun
treasures of having a boy!

That is a pink frog in the larger frog's mouth
Is he eating it-probably not-Judah doesn't
like to see frogs get killed-some frog's do carry
their young in their mouths!