Thanks for saving our summer!!

These gorgeous people came to stay with us last week. Boy, did we need it.

2 moms (1 very pregnant) walking around with 7 kids ages 12 down to 10 months got lots and lots of stares.

But we had such a blast going to the beach, travel town, shopping....{yes, we are sort of crazy} and just watching the kids play and play in the back yard while we relaxed and ate otter pops. Soooooo summer.

Owen and Charlie playing "Orphans at Christmas Time"

The classic was the day we went up to Santa Clarita to go to a sweet water park with big twirly water slides and big pools, etc. We packed in, sunscreened up and drove 30 min only to find out it was closed for the entire week because of a swim meet. It was quite the Grizwold moment.

So we went to "The Habit" instead.

I LOVE my van.

Little Prima Donna

Elliot -- Such happy little fella

Watching the Dolphins

Cute Cousins. (This is payback for those wonderfully torturous pics of the cabin.)

See you next time!