School's out!! Summer's here!! It's vacation time!! Sarah's family burned their school work in honor of summer vacation.
Then they jumped in their car to take a vacation. Not long into the trip, they ran over something and it ruined their tire. Luckily Jeff was able to change it and they made the rest of the journey to our home on their doughnut spare tire.
Jacob's family had made a safe drive from Omaha to our home arriving before Sarah's family got here. Whenever family members come to town, that brings the locals (Rebecca's and Ben's families) to join in on the fun and festivities.
The family had such a great time working on puzzles when we were altogether last time, so Rebecca brought some more puzzles and the work began on a huge 1000-piece puzzle.
The puzzles was so big and had so many pieces that two tables were needed to work on the project.
There were other, more young-child-friendly puzzles going on as well.
The cousins liked to congregate together.
Let the competition begin with a good game of Crew.
Competition continued with Jacob and Sarah racing to see who could cut their sections of a watermelon the fastest.
Grill time with grandchildren as observers.
True to form, Jonah was often found all dressed up and engrossed in his make-believe world.
We had lots of mealtimes with the crowd of family members. Abe's family had not come to town as they were here in the winter.
Brooke got a hankering to make a cake roll-up dessert which she shared with the family. We were impressed with her creation.
And the puzzle was completed!!! Nice work, family!!
Another puzzle was begun. This time a smaller puzzle with half the amount of pieces.
As per tradition, we went to Mueller Park Picnic Area one evening and had a hot dog/marshmallow roast over the fire. It was so green and beautiful.
Jonah loves Spiderman and used his roasted marshmallows to make it look like he had spiderwebs coming out of his hands.
More puzzling was going on after the children got showered to get rid of the smoky smell.
Everyone loved working on the Disneyland puzzle.
The puzzle got completed, but I didn't get a photo of it before it got put back in the box.
One night we were going to have Mandarin for the adults and Panda Express for the children; but, alas! Mandarin was closed for several weeks so we all ended up eating Panda instead.
Oh look!! A third puzzle has been started.
More Crew was happening into the late hours of the evening.
So much playing and fun going on that it was hard to say good-bye and good night in the evenings.
