Cousins

Sydney and Jordan love their cousins. I wish I could record their conversations...they are so entertaining. They spent hours looking or being Phantoms (no clue where they got that). They are always watching the other kids and doing what they do...especially Riley.

Ben and Deanna have a great tree climbing tree, so all the kids had fun doing that...although they couldn't get up it by themselves. They played at the park for several hours and then did a tractor pull. All the kids were in a different age category. The top three from each age got a trophy, the rest got a ribbon. All our kids received ribbons. Sydney did the best of the kids. They changed the weight for each age level, except for 5 year old and 6 year olds which was the same weight. Sydney placed 8 out of 22 kids and 5 of them were within an inch or two of her. She was the 2nd place girl in her age group. When you see the pictures, look at the difference in the faces of the Jacob and Riley with their ribbons and my kids with their ribbons....can you guess who are more competitive? ;) I'm not sure where they get that!

On sunday we enjoyed church and then a wonderful afternoon at the beach. We played lots of frizbee and the kids loved playing in the sand and sometimes in the water (except for Jacob who was in the water almost the entire time...it was cold too).