Vacation bible School

Well, we just finished our big week of VBS at our church, and we all had a great time. Emma got to bring her best friend Presley (also our next door neighbor) every day, so they had lots of fun. I led the Kindergarten class, and wow, they wore me out :-) They were lots of fun, though, and kept me laughing the whole time. I took a bunch of pictures, but the last day I accidentally deleted them all on my camera, so I was left with like 4 pictures :-) It was a great week, though, and my mom was able to come stay with us for a few days and help out with Benny and keep me sane :-) Dave had a few night shifts so our schedules were all off... So, here's a couple random pictures of my class, maybe I'll be able to steal a few from my friend Lisa (hi lisa!)...she was with the preschoolers and maybe she got a picture of Emma doing her thing....

Crazy kids

This is Benjamin's sunscreen mohawk :-) His hair is starting to get pretty long, but it is so blond that you can't really tell until you gel it up! He loves to be outside any time of day, and loves to try and do anything that big sis is doing. We're in that crazy loud stage with him where he is trying to talk to us, but doesn't know the words yet so he just screams....and screams... and yells :-) But he's so cute we can't stay mad for long. He can say a few words, though...he says Emma (that was his first word), dada, bye-bye, hi, doggy (or dooddy)...notice that mama is missing :-)!! i won't hold it against him. anyway, he's growing up fast,. and loving the sunny weather!


Emma could stay in the water ALL DAY... she is getting a nice tan from all the sun, and she is cracking us up with how grown-up she's getting. She is SO excited for the Olympics, i think she's really going to be interested in lots of sports. And yes, her new favorite show right now is American Gladiators, so funny. Usually we only let her watch movies or the kid channels, but she LOVES to watch the contestants climb the rock walls, swim under water, go down zip lines and run the "eliminator".......
My mom was up for a few days last week, and one night we were driving back to our house when all the sudden from the backseat Emma said, "Shhh..I'm getting a call back here"... she was pretending to have a phone in her hand and started talking on it. she said, "uh, huh, this is Emma, yes, Oh, hold on a second, I can't hear you. Ok, I'm putting you on speakerphone, is that better?" Oh, my we were cracking up!

A fun weekend

We had a very fun and busy weekend.. Adam and Bridget were out here looking for houses in Seattle, so we got to spend some time with them- it will be great to have them out here all the time! Friday night we got to go to Thuy's graduation party from her fellowship here in Portland, and that was really fun. Sunday everyone headed over here for a big get together and all the Hughes cousins got to play. And then Monday we headed to the Zoo with Adam and Bridget. They have a really cool exhibit there right now all about dinasours, so we got to walk through that- pretty fun stuff!

Emma liked the dinasoar walk, except for the loud noises... :-)

Adam and Dave

Dave and the T-Rex

Emma and her new friend Rosemary

Ben loves to lounge in his own chair

Lucas and Finn