Monday, April 11, 2016

Playing Catch Up

I'll be playing catch up for awhile, I'm sure. But after watching the kids spend hours pouring over our "family yearbooks," or, the blog posts I print out yearly, I am motivated to try to keep up with our life activities.

Mandy & I took our kids to the beach for a day. 7 kids, 1 car, 2 hours one way, 2 tired mamas.
 Wave chasing was a favorite thing to do...
 Easter Sunday: my favorite part was Papa's new tradition of putting names up on the cross in the backyard. One by one the kids came and handed Papa a piece of paper with their name on it.
 It was such a poignant reminder of why Jesus died. And why we have such a great reason to celebrate him rising from the dead!
 We finished out our school year with this fun bunch of friends.
 And we entered baseball and volleyball season.
 As summer quickly approaches this is what I'd like to see more of...