Brynny is such a good helper. Who needs a sponge when you have 2 perfectly good hands.
Abbi has Mrs. Hall for 1st grade this year. She has been so excited about starting ALL day school since before kindergarten, and the time has finally arrived. I so did not expect the wave of emotions that gripped me for most of the day. I was on the brink of tears all day long! But she's the first one gone, ALL DAY LONG...I can only imagine how I'll be with the last. 
When asked about her favorite things of the day she told me the lunch room is awesome, she got 3 recesses, and she made a new friend. Then she added, her words not mine, "It was my lucky underwear. I wore it today and I was brave and made a new friend." I had no idea that she had lucky underwear.( Goes to show how well I know my own kid.)
This was our tree in our camp. Very fun for the kids.
Papa is kid of a magnet for kids...can you tell?
It's great that Kael enjoyed his food enough he had to get every drop. I wish my girls ate that well!
It was funny how many chairs we had around the campsite. This is only about half.
All of the kiddos got cute sunglasses.
Funny that we are at the beach and bundled up. You gotta love central California, and that marine layer. We really had lots of warm days at the beach, but the kids didn't care either way.
Cute Aiden and Brynny playing.
The kids had one day when they wanted to bury everyone. 
Reese and Emma. These two played together a bunch during the week. 
Lexi, Audri, Abbi, and Alyssa
This was Brynn's bad day. I love the bandage around her head. I had to get a picture of her with it on because it only lasted for about 10 minutes, it just kept sliding off.
Kiley, Tristan, and Brynn making bags for an easter egg hunt. Eatser egg hunt? Why not, we had tons of fun activities for the kids.
Reese, Abbi, and Emma ready for the hunt to begin.
All 17 kids that were there.
Melissa was so nice and took family pictures for everyone. We took a few with our camera also, until we get the nice professional ones. 
I LOVE this picture of Brynn! She is one funny girl.
Me trying to play photographer. Melissa usually doesn't get family shots because she is the photographer, so I took some of her family. Andy thought it was funny that even after the family shots I still took all of the individuals of her kids even though she was available. So he took some pictures of me taking pictures of them. 
Nana and Papa, and all the grandkids.
Abbi is constantly asking Andy and me to jump on the trampoline with her, Reese and Brynn. The problem is usually she is asking RIGHT after dinner or lunch. I don't know about you, but the idea of jumping up and down after a meal never sounds great to me. Luckily, yesterday we found a better time to all bounce together, and it was really fun to just be crazy and silly together.
Abbi will ask me to take pictures of her sometimes. This is new, and I love it.
cond half picked right up. Andy was so nice, and bought a trampoline for the girls, yay! All of the girls were so excited about it they had to touch it in some way, and would ask every few minutes if it was ready yet.
Abbi is the serious bowler. She really tries to do well. She was happy to find a ball light enough for her to actually handle. Notice the swollen lip, read the next entry to hear about that.
Brynn Loves all things dirt. She likes to play with it, lick it, eat it, dig in it, whatever.
Reese likes to help Brynn eat dirt.
The final product. Still so cute.
