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This week we spent pretty much the entire time at the Poulson's house because Andy and family was there. They have been living in Macedonia for the last three years, so we don't get to see them that often. The kids spent most of every day in the pool, and they all got sun burned to some extent despite how hard we tried to keep them covered. We played games in the evening and talked. We had a really fun time. Mike and Rocket spent the mornings at our house so that Mike could do his day job. Rocket liked to bark a lot when he was over at the Poulson's house because he wanted to come inside with us. The kids seemed to be getting along rather well. During the night Mike processed huge amounts of apricots. He mostly froze them because we love ape smoothies. He also made jam, fruit leather, and is currently making canned apricots and dried apricots. We also have been eating large quantities of them too, since they are so good. :D Mike is supposed to change work groups to a new gr...

On Monday was Marissa's birthday party, so the older girls went to that. It was legend of Zelda themed and they had a lot of fun. Rea went to girls camp on Tuesday. She was nervous about it before, however she said that she had had a fun time when it was all over. Some of her favorite parts were going canoeing, doing the testimony meeting on Thursday and doing a skit at the talent show. Rea and the waters girls performed a skit Rea wrote which was about how everyone got their names wrong. Rea got called all three of the waters girls names (despite the fact that they look different, and they also got called Rea's name as well. The skit exaggerated this tendency. Their friend Abby played a camp director which kept getting the name wrong. On Tuesday every kid except for Rea went to the dentist. Timmy and Boo had no cavities, however, the other two had some. Wednesday Mike dropped the car off to get its breaks changed and the auto shop finished the repairs by the end of the day. In...

This is a multi-week post since we have missed a few weeks. On the week of the 18th the following things happened: On Tuesday the 20th Timmy, Gideon, and Mike went fishing with Grandpa Mike while everyone else went to have a girls night with Grandma Sheila. The boys had a fun time trying to catch fish, and then eating some gelato while the girls all made lots of deserts and had fun. On Wednesday we did another activity dudes where we talked about family history and told stories about our families. Mike told about how Grandpa Yoder milked the cows for his adopted grandfather, and how it got turned into a movie. We watched the movie on YouTube. We also put the roofing material on the new kids play-shed that week and got the skylights installed. The kids finished up their acting class on Friday they did their final showcase. They performed a small musical, some acting games, Babylon stories and an opening and closing song. The kids had a really fun time at acting class, and they want to ...