Mark and Jeff both had to go TDY for the week, so that left Autumn and Dawn with six kids to handle. Fortunately, Jacob and Elijah have grown up to be really good boys so they were as much of a help as they were a handful (Jeff is writing this so perhaps Dawn might have a different perspective ;-) ).
You could tell our little brood of boys enjoyed watching how big boys played. They would just watch Jacob and Elijah in everything they did. They weren't necessarily ready to try many of the things they did, but the did get to play with them some.
Here's Ezra laughing at Jacob growling at him!
Everyone also had a blast on the new play area (play set and sand box). This included playing on the play set, throwing sand around, and making ice cream and hills with the rocks.
Jacob (blue) directing his workers building their hill.
Elijah dumping sand on Trinity (FYI...she loved it!)
Looked so fun, Elijah dumped it on himself too!!
Finally, everyone settled down for some yummy watermelon. As wild and crazy as all these kids could be, nothing settled them down like placing some watermelon on the table. Everyone enjoyed their pieces and even sat still enough for their first group photos...
The first of hopefully MANY double family pictures together!!
It was a busy week for everyone involved but we truly loved it. We call can't wait to get together again when our kids will be older and yes..the number of kids will increase by 33% (I'll let you figure out the math)!!
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