Basketball hoop!

Adley tried basketball this year and I still need to get those pictures together for another blog post.  But first, I thought I would share that our sweet neighbors just happened to ask us if we wanted their very nice basketball goal! Why, yes! Here we are trying it out as soon as they brought it over.  The girls have been playing out on it every day.  They love it!  TJ may have already made us play two on two and a round of horse. :-)

Grandma Foster’s 90th Birthday

Grandma turned 90 this past June!  We had a family party at the Sherman’s, and had our friend come do pictures to capture the event.  We had her do pictures of everyone in every configuration we could think of. (We had everyone there except for Angela’s husband, Chris, who was sick.  Poor guy!) Then, Amber put together a photo book of all of the pictures for Grandma’s present.  Here are a few of her photos – all done by Adelfia Photography.

The whole gang!

Just the grandkids and great grandkids

Cake

  It was a great day of celebration!  We love you, Grandma!

Flashback: Random Summer Fun

Fun at the lake. 

Park with friends:  Older girls walking the wall.

Park with friends: Snack time

Park with friends: Being silly   

Mailing in last adoption paperwork!

Friends!

TJ got picked at the circus to do pushups!

Magic House: carriage ride

Magic House: Giant bubble 

Magic House: riding the boat! 

Magic House: water fun

Magic House: Silly Leighton

Leighton’s checkup and shots!  That ice cream helped get rid of the pouty lip

Mini Golf: Jaylyn made a hole in one!

Mini Golf: Everyone needs to golf with a Hello Kitty purse

Mini Golf: This is fun!

Zoo with cousins

Movie time with cousins

Cooking with cousins

Movie making with cousins

Spa time with cousins! 

Fine Arts Camp: Jaylyn ready for the art showcase.  She did jewelry making, cooking 2, sewing 2

Jaylyn with Mitzi, the jewelry teacher

Jaylyn’s jewelry she made

Jaylyn’s apron she made.  It is even reversible

Slip ‘n Slide fun   

Camp

Our church took kids to a children’s camp put on by Lifeway this summer.  It was held at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO.  I got to be a chaperone and go with Jaylyn for her first year at camp!  Mitzi was sweet enough to watch the girls when TJ was at work while I was gone.  Several of Jaylyn’s friends came too.  Some parts of it were rough for the younger ones, but I know they had a lot of fun too.  It was a huge group of children – Around 750 attended that week!

Here are some pics!

Bus ride – A little loud.  :-)

Malaine enjoying her food in the cafeteria

Morning devotion time.

More cafeteria fun

Water games

Nails!

Hair!

Games

Larry and I ready for OMC!!  (Organized Mass Chaos! – crazy whole camp game that is loud, crazy and very messy!)

Our church group

At worship

Signing shirts before they leave

                  (Not sure how Jaylyn avoided being in most of these pictures!)  One of the other adults took a lot of pictures and I still need to get a disk of his pictures.  Once I get those I can post more.)