And we're OFF!! Summer's last adventure...

🌞🌞🌞🌞Time to paaaaaaack!!!💦💦💦💦

We've been hiding some excitement around here....

Time to load up the tubs, the trailer and the people for some final summer FUN!!! 

(The boys were so excited they tried to jump in without any stuff...😂)

Add a few extra children in there too, right?!  Why not?!  

The more the merrier!! 

Trailer loaded, people overloaded...looking good...😎😎😎

Paradise, here we come!!!!  

Some cuteness while you wait... ;)

 

The last summer HURRAH!!

🌞🌞🌞💦💦💦😎😎😎 Much, much MUCH more to come....🌞🌞🌞💦💦💦😎😎😎

Randomness round-up of the week!

The shoe thief...😂

Can you find 👇Daddy below?! 

Well, Andrew knew Daddy was working under the car and he wanted to be right there with him!!  He was unrelenting in his insistence to be with Daddy, but it wasn't safe to wander around the garage, so we created a compromise...Andrew in his Pack and Play with his "tool kit" where he could see and "work with" Daddy 😁😎💪😂

Preschool is going well...

😆 "Rides" with Daddy 😆

Real-time plumbing lessons!!  Yep, clogged sinks happen 'round here too...

I love how Steve is so intentional to teach Joshua how to manage a home and fix anything and everything...what a gift! 

Boys day!  Haircuts!!

McM boys took over the Barber Shop!! 

Here it is, folks....where the four-wheeling lessons begin: 

😁They were wild for the rides!😁

And the usual...orchestra rehearsal and shopping day! 

Costco snacks are the best!! 

Joshua was vacuuming but Andrew cut right in and wanted in on the action...

He was so proud of himself! 

MORE fabulous meals!!!

Natalie has been SO BUSY cooking up a storm!! 

She is LOVING her home economics class (and we are too ;)

This week was 3 kinds of shrimp!!! 

Coconut shrimp was the big hit!! 

Isn't that GORGEOUS?!

Apple Cake....here she comes! 

YUMMMMM!!!!! 

And she made a delicious breakfast casserole!! 

We are so proud of you, Natalie Claire!  You are so talented and we are so grateful for how you use your gifts to constantly bless others!! 

💕💖💕💖💕

 

Happy birthday to all of us!

The birthday club reconvened again this year to celebrate our triple birthdays!

We prepared a feast!

The non-birthday-clubber had to serve everyone 😂

We had a lovely time celebrating! 

Things got VERY wild with the whipped cream and sparkling cider as the night went on...

😁😂 Watch out world, we're all another year older!! 😂😆...And who knows what that means?! 

Randomness round-up of the week!

Andrew and Daddy..."Drink COFFEEEEE!!" 😂

Daddy/boy mush piles...

Just imagine lots of squeals of laughter, growls, giggles, tickles and more laughter...

😍😁😍😁😍

More cooking! 

More picnics! 

And always...the cutest grocery shopping tractor drivers in town!!! 

 

A sad day in McM-ville...

It was an exciting trip to violin lessons and orchestra practice this week!

😂 A great way to kick off the new school year!! 😂 

A BOLT lodged itself in our tire...TWICE...what are the odds of that?!  When it popped out of the first hole and re-lodged the second time, of course it was an insta-flat!

Then we happened to have summer tires on that were not of the manufacturer, so my dear heroic son, who could have totally changed the tire, was not able to because we did not have the correct socket wrench to get the lug nuts off...

So...we missed violin lessons and hung out on the side of the road and thankfully awaited Triple A! 

They came quickly...and right behind them came the Orchestra Conductor to scoop up our older children off the side of the road, along with their instruments, to get to the first practice of the school year on time...😂😂...whew, whatta way to start the year with a BANG!!! 💥