We enjoyed our summer by going to the pool several days a week and of course spending a week at our favorite place, Ocean Isle Beach. This was Jonah's first trip to the beach. Both kids loved the sand, water and playing with all their cousins.
JT practiced his teaching skills to help get Jonah ready to start pre school.
We went back to Cox Farms this year with the Harrison family. Jonah enjoyed being able to go down the slides this year and baby Kaija was a new addition.
In the last two weeks we have been a traveling family. Our first trip was to Florida for a 96B reunion. That was our adoption group number for the families we traveled to Ethiopia with. There were 4 families. One family flew from CA, one from MN, one from FL and us. We all went to Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. That is were one of the families live. Our hotel was on the beach. We went to visit an alligator farm and celebrated a birthday with adults only! The kids had a wonderful time hanging out and getting to know each other. It was so great to see everyone and how all the kids had grown and their siblings that we never got to meet.
Since we were already in FL, our family spent a little more time and went to Sea World and went to visit Mickey Mouse!
Our last trip was this past weekend to visit and celebrate Kevin's parents 50th wedding anniversary. The kids loved seeing their cousins and we stayed up north to celebrate Halloween. Jonah sported the peacock outfit and JT was Shrek. Jonah refused to wear the hood part of the costume so we never got the full effect. But he did love his orange tights!
We hope we can do a better job at keeping this up. Otherwise we will beck in 5 more months.....
