And Selah, we are so excited to meet you!! It's hard to believe that it was 6 months ago that you came to spend a few special days with us. How about a little trip down memory lane??
This is a pretty clever cover for my post that I never got around to doing in July ;-) Thanks for humoring me!
We crammed as much fun as possible into 3 days and 2 nights with 5 kids and 4 adults! We went to Build-a-bear, Red Robin, the zoo, shaving cream fun, and the 1st ever Kerner family baseball game. Sit back and enjoy our little stroll...
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| Large bathtubs are a great place for fun! Jude cried when he couldn't take a bath at our house the next time they came over. |
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| Auntie loves you!! |
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| Uncle Jason is so much fun when he is reading a bedtime story! |
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| The trampoline was a great source of fun too! |
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| Aubrey and Jude making "funny faces"! I think there may be a little family resemblance here... |
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| Ainsley was too little to partake in all the fun, but she was here for snuggling time! |
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| Jude and Jenna got to experience some shaving cream fun with us too. |
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| Another parenting oops... leaving the bottles of food coloring outside with the children! I went upstairs to run the bath water, dads left in charge of supervising. Somehow how the children turned colors in those few minutes!! At first we laughed, then we realized we had family pictures the next day...oops!! Thank heavens for Google and the multiple recommendations for how to return your children to their natural color =) |
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| Jude is ready for the big league! He was a natural as soon as he picked up the bat. |
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| Jenna is also a natural....camera ham!!! But she does it so well =) |
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Then Uncle Jason decided to step it up a notch.... we were ready for our 1st game. To simplify things, we had one base (notice the helmet in the middle of the yard). Aubrey is closed to the camera with her glove on ready for the ball (nevermind that she is a lefty so wearing a glove on your left hand creates immediate challenges). Ella is standing in the middle waiting, Uncle Jason is directing traffic and Jenna has left the game already for a ride in the car since Jude is not currently playing with it! Jude is up to bat. Once he hits the ball, he immediately joins Ella and Aubrey in the hunt to grab the ball! He has no desire to run to the helmet base. Once Uncle Jason coaches him back to the helmet base, the girls also ditch the idea of getting the ball and they too run to the helmet base! Oh the laughter and chaos that we had =) We will be practicing until next time Jude! |
Our idea behind the build-a-bear trip was two-fold. One, its fun to make your own stuffed animal! Easy enough. But second, I thought it would be a tangible thing for the kids to all have to remember our time together. Its hard to go TWO WHOLE YEARS without seeing family, especially after having such a fun-filled month with cousins. So we filled our animals with extra love and kisses to stretch across the ocean.
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| Ainsley with Lovey bear. (We made one for Selah too!) |
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| Ella with Ollie |
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| Aubrey with Mickey the Octopus. Jenna also made a pink Octopus appropriately named Bear! Jude opted for Sid from Madagascar and named him Siddie =) |
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| Lots of love, hugs and kisses to you!!! |
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