Oct 13, 2013

Summer Days

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This boy loves anything he can dip some food in, including ranch, soy sauce, ketchup, etc. Ranch is his favorite though,  and he normally just face plants in it.

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face plant

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Artwork by Reister - I believe this was Buzz Lightyear

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Woody

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We found out in June that Reister was accepted into a new elementary school. His name is the last column, on the bottom, "Wang Yi Rong"

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Peyton loves people and this friend, S, is one of his favorite

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The local wet market I go to has a play area in it - makes it handy for taking the boys - they are entertained!

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In our basement where we park our electric bikes - not ours, but our boys always enjoy playing on it while we're locking up our bikes. This was after a trip to the swimming pool

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A neighbor of mine and her daughter

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One day we went to this mini-water park with some friends. It's not too close to our house so we only made it once this past summer, but the boys had fun.

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Reister and his friend on the "water blob"

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Oct 12, 2013

Mason's Birthday Part 2

Mason had his party at an indoor play area with several of his friends.  His "theme" was Super Hero Squad". For me, if I can provide (thanks to my Mom's care packages) some plates, napkins, cups and cake decorations that are of the requested theme, I have done my job. I am just not able to pull off games, decorations, etc. It's not in my gift set... .ha ha! 
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Here's a bunch, but not all of the kids that came

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Mason and his buddy Zeb both seem to have the ability to get a LOT of the icing on their faces. Zeb is a new friend for Mason this year, but has been such a blessing. They are just a couple weeks apart age wise and play really well together! (We can't wait for him to come back to our city after several months in their home country)

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Peyton loves milk and loves driving the coupe around

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sweet "Zebby" as our family refers to him

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Big brother Reister

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Birthday boy having a deep thought

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Helping "baby" bro up

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Selfie - before my hair cut in August - my hair had gotten really long!


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Daddy entertained the kids a lot this day - chasing them around - I think he was wolf??

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Zeb's big sister was the only girl, but she didn't seem to mind!

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Attacking the wolf!

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He looks almost defeated!

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The big boys of the party

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Our boys refer to this play place as "the big octopus play place". It spins and they have so much fun jumping off it.

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Thankful for the decorations so I didn't have to "create" any super hero figures myself!

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I think Micah was explaining something about the cake

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Present opening!

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I promise Mason is happy, just caught them at the wrong moment!

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Good buddies Levi & Hudson

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Mason's good buddy Jace

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Our neighbors, Elijah and Gabriel

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Reister is good friends with Luke, Jace's older brother
It was a fun time to celebrate Mason. We love our second boy and are so thankful for him!!