Family Time

Before we went to our second reunion this year, here are some of the things we did.



Ashleigh had so much fun with her friend Molly doing the Circus dance camp.



Three out of four have found their thumb. Kamren is the only one who never sucked his thumb. Andrew loves to suck on his left thumb to fall asleep. I was a thumb sucker too:)



Ashleigh thought long and hard about cutting her hair. She wanted it just like our neighbors and my sweet friend cut it for her. We love it!! It's so much easier to brush and do now without any pains.



We sure love the nature here. It's a tradition each summer to walk the nature preserve near our house. The weather was just right that day.



I try to take each of our children on a date once a month so Ashleigh and I went to see the musical Beauty and the Beast. We loved it!



Here's the wonderful Staples clan. This is our second annual reunion with the Staples Family. We are trying to do one every 2-3 years. We sure miss them already.



The kids had a blast with their cousins. They really enjoyed golfing together.



Grandpa Staples plays the harmonica beautifully so he bought all the older grandchildren one to start our own Staples Harmonica band. It was so fun to teach Kamren and Ashleigh to play. It was quite an impressive band.



These are the four cousins born within one year. There's three boys and one little girl born. Andrew is the youngest.



Here's Andrew all decked out in his sweet swimsuit. He never swam but he was such a good little sport going everywhere we did.



All the ladies went to the outlets for an afternoon and the guys did a golfing outing in the morning. It was so much fun to chat without any interruptions.




We had so much fun at the Wisconsin Dells. We sure enjoyed eating whatever we wanted at this all inclusive resort. Of course the kids loved the pizza and the flavored slushies.



We had a fun family home evening. The kids really loved learning more about who we are. It's quite busy with 17 grandchildren there.



We all dressed up in blue for our Staples family picture. The kids are quite worn out from smiling.





On the way to Wisconsin we stopped by the Jelly Belly factory. What a fun treat.



Brynn and Grace who are three days apart reaquainted themselves. They sure loved each other.



To start of the reunion some of the cousins checked out the Weiner mobile that was at our resort for a few hours.



Ashleigh decided to have one more cousin hot tub party in our room. Aunt Cori was so nice to blow bubbles for them too.



To finish our trip we went to the temple. Brynn asked me today if we could go again to the temple. It truly has a special spirit there.



I guess we didn't get tired out on our trip so we went to the zoo with some friends today. We really enjoyed the animals.