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Saturday, June 20, 2020

A Weekend Away

 Last weekend we had the opportunity to join some friends in the mountains of north GA. On the way there, Claire made a pretty awesome tennis player out of modeling clay.


We enjoyed a couple of days away. We hiked the gorge at Tallula Falls, went to Goats on the Roof, and stopped by the petting zoo at the Dillard House.



AK found a horse that she wants for her birthday.


Claire told bedtime stories to all the kids.




We are grateful for this time with the Wetzl's!


Here we go again...

Claire wrapped up her school year by making the longest sentence in the world and then diagramming it. It took hours and we were exhausted but so proud when it was done.






2020 will be remembered as a lot of things, but for us one of them is "The Year of the Turtles." Besides our brief time with Timmy, we also enjoyed two other friends who were dubbed "Jaredpickard" and "Garycampbell."


Dobby had a quarantined birthday, and we drove by to celebrate. AK brought a homemade guitar, the kids sang "Happy birthday," and we all did a great job of staying 6 feet apart.


Last science project of the year: Catapults! Here the kids are measuring how far their catapult could shoot a cotton ball into the yard.


The kitchen is coming along!


We spent some time with Nan and Popple. Owen read to them on the couch.



I drank coffee with one of my favorite people in the world.


The sweet house where I grew up.


Nan and Popple sent us off as always by princess waving from the porch. These people. My heart.


Claire has been running a good bit with our neighbor lately.


Found this gem on my phone. I don't know whose hand it is or what is happening.


The kids are so proud of our garden and we are enjoying the harvest!




Spencer does chin tucks a lot while he's driving. It's weird.


I love when I peek into Owen's room in the morning and he's sitting in his floor playing quietly. He's a cool kid.


And then sometimes he's wrapped up in a towel and can't figure out how to get a blackberry off the counter, so he tries to use his tongue. Like I said, cool kid.


Nan brought some new outfits for the kids. They are the cutest people I know.





I wonder what God's going to do with this girl.


Claire has been babysitting quite a bit for Hannah lately. She loves this kid right here.


We spent some time on our friends' farm last week. The kids enjoyed riding bikes around their land.





Here we go...

I do believe I have a good number of things to catch up on documenting. Here are a few.

We found a turtle while we were on a walk. The kids brought him home, named him Timmy, and took very good care of him for approximately 26 hours before he decided to run away.


Caught this girl reading on the front porch...


AK's friends had a "zoom party" for her since her birthday sleepover was indefinitely postponed due to COVID-19.



Owen wrote me the sweetest note...


Claire had a math challenge to do her number knockout in an unusual position or setting. She did hers in a laundry basket.


School looked a lot different at the end of this school year. Here are the kids in their CC community zoom class. AK took advantage of the situation and did her presentation on a real live chicken.



 Claire and AK got into our closet and did their best impressions of the Coach and me.




We had a very minor kitchen fire - like, something fell to the bottom of the oven and burned, and the kids caught sight of the flame. They freaked out (which wasn't helped at all by Spencer who joined in on their screaming just to be funny, but they didn't see it that way) and ran to get their most prized possessions out of the house. Claire grabbed her Bible and scrapbook; AK got her fuzzy blanket. Owen got a tortilla.


We had yummy homemade cinnamon rolls for Easter breakfast.


A few jam sessions have taken place here lately.




Some of my favorite moments are when AK and Owen discover some amazing thing in nature, like an unusual bug or a cocoon.