Lots to catch up on!

Lots to catch you up on. It's been awhile since we posted. We are on Summer break now for 2 weeks until Sarah starts speech again. She is doing great in it and we can understand more and more of what she says. She has a hard time with pressure sounds (P,T,B,F ect)

We went to the beach with family/friends and had a great time. Bob and Jessie have 2 kids also and our kids get along great. It's a fun dynamic. Sarah likes to baby Luke the 2yr old and Luke is probably the toughest of them all. Alex and Taylor like to play together. Sarah and Alex look dreamy into each others eyes. Luke says "I want to go in Taylor's van!" Taylor loves to know Luke is following him around. Alex and Sarah are so funny. Alex holds her hand and tells her she is beautiful. Sarah looks at Alex and bats her eyes and giggles. Alex is such a sweet wonderful boy. They are all so much fun. It was a low key trip (so nice). We went to the beach and the swimming pool and that's about it. We saw whales spouting in the ocean right out our hotel room windows! My kids wanted and did "swim in the ocean" but I thought I should leave the underwear pictures out. Here are a few other ones:

June 6Th was Taylor's birthday! He turned 5. He is starting to get the birthday thing. He realizing that he is "older now". Just today he told Thad and I that he only wants to watch basketball, golf, and football on TV. No more "kid" movies he said. Since we don't watch that much TV we'll see what happens; I'm not holding my breath. It was fun to get together with family and friends. Thad's sister came down with the kids (Isaac, Abby, and Zek). It was so busy that I didn't get very many pictures. Here are a few:

Sarah loved to be the "helper" with Abby. She took diapers to the garbage, put both Abby and baby Zek's pacifiers in, and played peek-a-boo with them. Taylor spent time talking to both Abby and Zek too.

Here is a picture of our newest family member: "spot spot". Taylor named him. I tried to give suggestions but "spot spot" it is. We found him on the road while we were walking. Taylor looks after him and gives spot spot his daily exercise. We've only lost him once. When we lost him I told the kids to pray that spot spot is ok and that he would come out from under and inside the cupboards and about 1hr later out he jumped! How fun. He has the plush life now: Crickets on demand.

Got to go it's late! Have a great week. Thanks for checking in on us. -Becky