We made it here!! We are having sooo sooo much fun! We are lucky to have the best family ever to let us come stay for a while this summer! Here are some pictures of our first week. I am going to try to document our whole trip this summer. We are having the best time and so grateful to be here!!:)
We went to Aunt Jana and Uncle Steve's cabin the day after we flew in. Alana was so sweet to spend so much time with the girls down by the dock. They made some pretty sweet sand castles down there.
Isabelle (my nature girl) is the one that is loving all of the outdoor activities the most. She loves being in the lakes and beaches.
One of Isabelle's sandcastles.
My kids are so lucky to get to spend so much time with their cousins here. They are all so sweet to them!
Aunt Jana playing Monopoly (this game was paused and resumed in the morning because it took sooo long) .
Lauren took the kids for some rides on the boat! They had a blast. Isabelle had to make sure she kept up with Christian on how fast he went. They are so funny together!
Christian out on the water.
Abigail loves boat rides!!
Christian!
Katie even decided to give it a shot. She did awesome out there! She even gave a thumbs up to go faster! they loved it. Thanks Lauren!!
We met Gramma and Grampa Brown for a picnic one day. They were so sweet to make us some yummy food!
Here the kids are picking a giant leaves off of a maple tree (as Grampa explained to us)! They were amazed since we don't really have trees this big in AZ!
Abby!
We spent a day at Aunt Betsy's house. The girls had a blast hanging out with my cousins Jackie and Tara. They also had fun at the beach down the street from their house.
They all spent hours just swimming and playing in the sand. How fun to have this so close for all the kids to hang out at!
They could spend all day here.
We went up to Aunt Jana's cabin (again) for the Fourth of July and had to come back home before we really got started! We were chased out by a tornado!! Actually there wasn't a tornado where we were at but one did touch down 20 minutes from where we were staying. It was pretty dramatic!! We all headed down to the basement when the storm rolled in. Thankfully Lauren was quick thinking and grabbed Isabelle from the beach where she was playing (which ended up having a tree fall down near and giant waves crashing on the shore once everything hit) which I really didn't even realize she was still down there. We all grabed kids and went flying into the storm basement!! It was quite an exeperience for us AZ natives! Whom have NEVER really experienced much weather other than monsoons!!
The survivors...:)
Aunt Jana and Uncle Steve's cabin. We were just below here where a tree fell on the roof of the cabin. There were trees and power lines down everywhere and you could hear chain saws going at it all morning the next day, so people could get out on the roads to go home! It was quite the experience!
Overall we had one week full of lots of fun and adventure!! We are having so much fun spending time with family. That is the best part! We are thankful to have so many great people to spend the summer with!! My Aunt and Uncle are so patient to let my kids take over there house and help so much with them too. It is so nice! My kids are having fun with the other Patrick's too. They get to spend lots of time with two of the cutest little boys ever, here at my Aunt's house. So that is one week down and five more to go!! We are looking forward to lots more fun.:)
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