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  • Good-bye Topsail Island

    Good-bye Topsail Island

    It was so sad the last day, saying good-bye to the ocean: No. I mean it. It was sad: We got all the cousins together for a last picture: And then just my kids for a last picture with the ocean: In case you’ve ever wondered what was involved in getting that many children to…

  • Colter is Twelve!!

    Colter is Twelve!!

    Colter had a great time celebrating his birthday at the ocean. But he still had to hug all of his siblings: He had to hug me too: I think he also enjoyed eating his cake: (Notice the gun and sword from the Pirates buried treasure earlier in the week!)   I have a feeling it…

  • Pirates

    Pirates

    My sister-in-law planned a huge thing for all the children while we were at Topsail Island. She made a treasure map, stuffed it into a bottle, and planted it in the sand for Colter to find. (He was SO geeked out by it. LOL)     It directed them to different clues:   It was…

  • Blowing Bubbles

    I never finished blogging all of our vacation photos, and the children have been asking for them, so I’m going to try to get them up. My mom had gotten all of the children bubble wands and we broke them out on a windy evening. They had so much fun with them.      …

  • Odds n Ends

    I have a few random photos leftover from the air show, so I thought I’d post them all here. Hewitt and me admiring the corvettes: Greyden all scrunched into the stroller and watching the airplanes: Emery getting a video: Colter: Indigo and Grandma: Grandma watching the planes: Me and my baby brother: Hewitt resting in…

  • The Mighty C-130 Hercules

    The Mighty C-130 Hercules

    Our favorite plane is the C-130. That’s because it’s what Uncle Adam flies. Unfortunately, by the time we went to check it out, they weren’t letting people inside of it. But we got to pose with it: And Colter and Jim got to “start” the propellers:         Yep, it’s still their favorite…

  • How Many Jonases Fit in the Cockpit?

    How Many Jonases Fit in the Cockpit?

    We have a friend who flew the KC-10 for the Air Force. So we decided to go and check it out. First, we all crammed into the cockpit: Then we each got to be the pilot:   The children are all now talking about becoming pilots. I told them they were going to have to…

  • The Golden Knights

    The Golden Knights

    The Golden Knights are an army parachute group. Cole especially thought jumping out of a plane was VERY cool:     They made a second pass:   I’m pretty sure I could never actually jump out of a plane. Not one of my desires. Jim and Cole could do it in a heart beat.   

  • I Just Don’t Look

    I Just Don’t Look

    When we got back to base camp, Emery and Cole decided to climb the tree. Jim took these photos, because I refuse to look at them while they’re climbing. So if you’re a nervous mom, you may not want to look at the bottom photos! (But don’t worry, Jim checked out the tree and it…

  • Jumpy Things

    Jumpy Things

    Once we had base camp set up, it was time to go check out the air show stuff. So off we headed: And we found the jumpy things:     It was a lot of fun until Indigo got hurt: So we gathered everyone together: And walked over to the planes: First we walked through…

  • King of the Ocean

    King of the Ocean

    Colter was the undisputed King of the Ocean this vacation. The kid basically lived in the water. The morning we had to leave was very windy.  It was the roughest the ocean had been our whole week.  Here’s a video of most of the children staying up close to the beach.  But if you look…

  • Time for the Beach

    Time for the Beach

    It’s time for the beach!! First priority, suntan lotion: Once everyone is covered, it’s time to head to the ocean.  Here are a couple of shots of Colter enjoying the sand and sun: And then a shot of Colter not enjoying the sand in his face (which was his own fault for doing pushups on…

  • Confidence

    Confidence

    During our vacation, we visited good friends of ours who are living on a 300+ acre Christmas tree farm outside of Blacksburg, Virginia. Cole and I were walking down one of their hills together. This was our view:     Off to the right, there was this big sloping part, with lots of trees on…

  • Charlestown State Park Balloon Glow

    Charlestown State Park Balloon Glow

    Yesterday, Jim was pushing us to finish our work early so we could have a family surprise. What was our surprise? The Charlestown Hot Air Balloon Glow. It was a hot, muggy evening with no breeze. (On a side note, we used our bug off lotion stick b/c the bugs were awful and they worked…

  • Crazy Inventions

    Crazy Inventions

    All of the children are supposed to be sleeping because we have to get up wicked early tomorrow. We have a soap show (Madison Old Court Days) that is an hour away and we have to be completely set up by 9:00 am. Instead of sleeping, Colter just came into the living room so we…