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visit with the Roths


A couple of weeks ago, my brother’s family came to visit from Oklahoma. It’s always good to see them since we usually only get to see them once or twice a year. The boys absolutely love their 10 year old cousin, Gracie. We were able to spend a couple of days hanging out with them so here are some of the pictures from the weekend.
this is one of their other cousins, Madolyn
cousin swinging

 

and my beautiful niece, Gracie
my niece

 

 Growing up, we used to always take this walk to the property next to my Grandma’s house. It was really fun to take the kids over there for the first time.
walking along the trail

 

grandma and boy

 

bundles of little blue flowers

 

pretty view of the lake

 

boy sitting and smiling holding little blue flower on walking trail

 

we also went to a wedding that weekend so I had to throw this one in 🙂
black and white picture of 4 kids

 

selfie in the side mirror of car

 

young boy driving tractor

 

childrens tractor ride

 

bonfire and “hayrides”
dad and girl

 

the fire was so hot that you had to get creative when roasting hot dogs
laying down to stay cool at bonfire

 

kids jumping on trampoline

 

grandma and baby

 

diy kids star wars costume

 

diy kids jedi costume

 

Blog, Family, family camp

family camp (part three)


It’s hard to believe that Family Camp was 2 weeks ago. I shouldn’t be surprised. This happens all the time. I look forward to an event, counting down the days until that specific event will occur, and then when it’s over, I spend months saying “I can’t believe it has been ‘x amount of time’ since that happened! 
 
Because of that, it has been really special to me to have this space to document our lives. I am not a writer. My mind just doesn’t work like that. I tend to either write way too much, including unimportant details, or I don’t write much of anything. I’ve been in that kind of a rut here lately; only writing a few sentences before posting mostly pictures. I love pictures and don’t see myself changing that aspect anytime soon. But I do want to find a balance between writing too much and writing too little. We’ll see how that goes.
 
Anyway, back to Family Camp. Out of the 4 days we were there, we had one nice, gorgeous, fall-weather day. Relay races and volleyball took place all day. I took tons of photos that day so I obviously couldn’t post them all. But here are some of them from the day…

 

little boy smiling

 

kids activities

 

outdoor kids activities
outside games

 

game instructions

 

girl holding baby
black and white photography

 

watching the games

 

That, right there, is my team–the winning team!
outside game of tug of war

 

patiently waiting to start the game

 

girls tug of war

 

girl showing victory

 

family camp 2

 

watching volleyball

 

outside activities

 

if you want to have fun taking sports pictures, go find Billy 
church camp games

 

man sitting on picnic table
little girl holding flower
kids groupshot funny

 

4 kids sitting on bench

And that’s it for the Family Camp pictures. My pictures all revolve around the activities that happened during the day but I would really have to say one of my favorite parts of the weekend is to spend time with people who are like-minded, getting to know some people that you don’t know as well. Lots of love going around. 
Until next year…