Monday, August 05, 2019

July to August: Birthdays, Buddies, Barcelona, Beautiful Weather!

Many, many out of order pics to come. When I last posted it was after our trip to Kensington and the first of many lazy, beautiful summer days on Silver Springs Lake at grandma's condo. Since that time, we took a couple of the O'Meara boys over to the lake to play, Mike and I took the three youngest to visit Maria while she camped at Silver Lake with Tyler's extended family and met his parents, we had another sleepover with six 8th grade boys and then Tyler and Maria took them all paint balling as a belated birthday gift. Later that week Maria got her wisdom teeth removed on Peter's actual 11th birthday and grandma Rose and grandpa Bob were kind enough to take him for a sleepover with Mateo, present him with his birthday gift, take the kids to a local park with a splash pad and then take the boys mini-golfing. After that a friend of his came for a playdate at the lake and then we all went over to grandma Rose and grandpa Bob's for a Sunday celebration that included a visit from Wadet, Victoria and Rene. Somewhere in there I went out to say good-bye to our beloved 4th grade teacher as she leaves for Florida, went to a concert with my friend, Desiree and then I took the 5 youngest kids to Family Fest at Ford Field to see the Lions practice. 

While we enjoyed all these activities in Michigan, grandma Paula continued her exploits in Espana! Enjoy the pics to follow...as usual all messed up chronologically...sigh.

Pics of the girls feet after pedi's in South Haven from the last blog post ;)
The belated birthday party at the condo...pork and salmon!
Tyler and Maria at Silver Lake and Lucy enjoying Silver Springs!
Pics from Spain...




Daddy, Paulina and Mateo out fishing on Homer Lake where Tyler's family has property.



Below is what it looks like when you get hit with a paintball and the fun bike the boys got as a shared birthday present...just like the one the Mason girls have!

Driving into Detroit...the skyline looks much cooler IRL...lol


Gibraltar and the famous unfinished cathedral in Barcelona!








Below is Lucy with Tyler's mom, Kelly and his sister Jenna is in the right hand picture
Mikey, Nick, Luke, William, Pat and Tomas (Isaac met them at the paintball place)


I used the power washer to clean the front of our house. I wish I could say Lucy helped...
She lost her first tooth! (followed shortly by her second)

Fishing...the boys have caught some blue gill a few times...





Grandma and her sisters and their husbands traveled to Barcelona!










Jumping off the dock above and showing off "old Luke" on FaceApp below...




Happy 11th Birthday to Peter!! (Lucy was coming up the stairs with Maria)
The whole Devries Family with half the Denjas...lol