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Blog Catch Up - Summer Fun

Our tomatoes. What a nice variety of bite size tomatoes. They did excellent this year. We recommend the yellow/orange husky cherry tomato. It is savory.

State Fair fun. This was E.'s first time.

L. enjoyed the farm equipment at the fair.

E. pulled himself up on his own this summer. There is no stopping him.

L. taught E. how to go up the stairs. He is still practicing going down but he is an expert going up.

What is wrong with this picture?

E. enjoying outdoor time on his little "bike".

Our roses were excellent again this year.

There were many water fights this summer.

The boys at a princess party , being princes.

E.'s first sippy cup experience.

Silly time.

Blog Catch Up - Hills Trip with Mom and Dad, etc...

The three of us at the children's museum.

My guys.

E. at 6 months with the doctor that delivered him.

Mom and Dad came up to the Hills to camp with us in August. We had a wonderful time.

Cathedral Spires Hike

View from above the church camp. We saw a bunch of big horn sheep  this time.

Custer traffic jam thanks to the bison. Feel like home, mom and dad? :)

Our Time in DBQ

Train Fun with Papa

Elijah's new favorite position. He also started rolling over back and forth and really playing with

 baby toys there.

Here are a few pictures I took of Jan & Alan's beautiful flowers.

We went out to Story Book Farm.

We were able to go to Marion and enjoyed time with the Marion Crandalls and Lori!

Fun time on Mimi & Papa's toys.

Levi learning to ride his "new" trike that fits him perfectly.

We enjoyed the wildlife in Mimi & Papa's yard as well.

It was fun to have Sara and the kids up for the day while Jonathan was out running his big race.

I thought this picture was priceless! Its so funny how a baby toy can entertain kids of all ages. Levi couldn't get enough of it and apparently neither could Jude. :)

The last day in DBQ we celebrated our 5th anniversary. Thanks Andrew for surprising me with the vow renewal at our "wedding church"! Thanks Jan & Alan for watching the boys! We had a great couple of hours! Thank you Andrew for 5 years of growth and love and challenges and may we have years and years ahead! LOVE YOU!

S.D. Extended Family Fun

 

Dear Crandall family, we are really glad you all made such an effort to come out to S.D. to camp together. We had a great time and think it could not have gone much better than it did! (Other than the stress of the new Marion van and the Denver van trouble.) If you are up for it, we should do it again next year! Thanks Hillary, Sara, and Jan for all the work getting the food together and getting the kids prepared for camping! Here are some photos to remember the good times:

 

Alan, Jan and our family carpooled down to Rapid and took a small detour to the Badlands and Wall Drug.

If you enlarge this photo, you will see a rainbow over the badlands.

 

ALL the cousins made it up to the top of our steep hike behind the camp. Yay us! Thanks Hillary, for encouraging me up the climb. It was my first attempt at such a think holding Elijah.

  

Mt. Rushmore

 

So cute!!!!

We all made it up to the dinosaur park for a picnic.

 It was amusing to see all the cousins get to the air museum and giggle while spinning the plane wheels.

Don't know why this is out of order. I just thought it was a nice photo of the Denver Crandalls.

 What a nice photo of the brothers and their babies.

 Cold creek fun and relaxation was in order.

 

We also can't forget how awesome the "giant sandbox" was at camp. Who knew the kids would be SO into it for so long.

 

The Crandall Family - Summer 2013

(Do you like how the photographer forgot to get Mt. Rushmore in the picture???)

 The newest cousins spending time together:

 Campfire fun. Thanks guys for building it up for us all to enjoy, and for the music.

 The cave was fun as well; here are the Marion Crandalls in the cave. We all made it through the cave in one piece!!!!

Mr Buffalo says, "See you next time in South Dakota!"