1) Maria & the kids spent a week with Opa... we were joined by the Bright Cousins!
2) Jessica had this sweet baby boy, Joshua & Maria got to spend an entire week ALONE with Jessica, Josh, and Joshua! It was heavenly!
3) While Maria was helping Jessica, Elizabeth got to hang out with the Lynes Family!
4) While Elizabeth played with the Lynes, T.J. got to go to Lego Camp with his Aunt Rosalind! He was in HOG heaven with the Bright Family!
5) This little princess turned 3!!!
6) Maria got Publix Cake! Oh! How I have missed you!
8) The kids and I were gone for 2 1/2 LONG/FUN weeks, but we got back just in time for this guy to turn 6!!!!! (thanks to a sweet daddy he had the Cars 2 cake he wanted!)
9) We weren't home 24 hours before we had visitors from the East! The Bright Family came to stay... it was so fun! Elizabeth loved having "sisters"!
10) We got dressed up and met Tyler for "Drop Night" We found out our next duty station: Lackland AFB!
11) So what do you do when you find out you will be moving to Texas, why, go to Texas that is what!!! We headed to College Station for the 4th! Tyler tried Rudy's for the 1st time & I think he liked it! We spent time on the lake and both kids LOVED Mr. William taking them out on the tube!
12) After our trip to College Station, TX we returned to Biloxi with 3 stowaways! (this was the first annual Franklin/Westbo kid swap!)
13) The five kids LOVE LOVE LOVE each other and they were wonderful! We spent our days playing on the water-slide, drawing with sidewalk chalk, eating for FREE @ Chick-fil-a, and much, much MORE!
14) We were so busy that Mr. Danial passed out sitting up! ;)
15) ALL good things must come to an end and so we packed all 5 kiddos up and headed to LA to swap!
16) The Westbo's made it to the TX state line just fine!
17) So what do you do with an entire week without kiddos! If your Tyler you go to school and if your Maria you shop, sleep-in, read and wait for your honey to come home! You also see 3 movies, eat dinner at restaurants that don't cater to kids, and ALL in ALL remember WHY you love each other SO much!18) While in TX, Ms. Tiffany taught our T.J. to swim! GO T.J. GO!
19) Elizabeth didn't want to be out done by Danial so she too fell asleep sitting up! I guess TX was just TOO much fun!
20) When the kiddos got back from TX we had 7 visitors from SC! Maria's sister KT and her twins (Ben & Alex), plus KT's friend Sarah and her three kids (Anna, Carlos, & Katie) joined us for a week! We had SO much fun! We went to craft time @ Michael's, saw a movie, played outside, went to story time @ the library, visited the Children's Museum, ate Snowballs, and went to the beach! It was FUN, FUN, FUN! T.J. even found himself a little/LOT sweet on Ms. Anna! ;)
21) Our last trip of the summer was to Dothan, AL! WHY? Well duh!!! Elizabeth's best friend Coco lives there!
22) It was also a chance for Maria to see her BeStIe Joanie-Joan! (Tyler was so excited to see his BFF Joe the Pilot... but the picture we captured was a little too risque!) We love the Lasura Family and we have missed them so. We celebrated their warm weather arrival with a trip to the beach! It was a simply MAH-VELOUS weekend!So, what did you do this summer?
Well, I have kept grand-children and took care of a child who had a baby. And worked and worked and have been to MS for a family reunion and am going to UT for a wedding and hope to be able to come to Biloxi once again in Oct for a wedding but that hasn't been set in stone. Not as busy as yours but busy enough for this old Oma!!
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