off we go to the beach!!!

Mali and her senior collage....


Mali's senior collage....

Some family pictures taken at the hospital with new babies...just think, Aaron was our sixth child, and grew up going to the hospital every 15 months or so to meet and welcome a new baby....

Aaron was/is such a cutie!


Aaron's senior collage is on an American Eagle bag...he likes those kinds of stores.

so...we want to go to the beach. I haven't been yet this year, it is calling me. The girls (Emily and Abigail and Mirielle and Mali and Margaret and Kathryn and Evelyn and Suzanne and Sonja, nine of the eleven) are going to the ocean this weekend. I am not going because I feel torn...Paul didn't say, "Oh, you should go!" and I would feel bad if I did. I do not get enough time with him as it is, and he is going away to Boston for the whole week next week, so....also the thought of sleeping in a tent in hot weather with no fan...nah, I'll just stay here and let them have their fun. Anyway, we started talking about how it is going to be ninety degrees today, and going to school in that sort of weather seems like Cruel and Unusual Punishment....so. We are going to the beach!

Evelyn, Suzanne, Sonja, and Jonathan skipped school. Well, they technically didn't, they stayed home because they weren't feeling well. Not feeling well about going to school, that is. blah. Anyway, Mirielle and I are filling up the minivan and heading to Lake Ontario.

We had a nice picnic yesterday. Joseph and Aaron and Samuel headed up to the lake to go out in a boat with their cousins, Abigail took Margaret and Kathryn to the beach with some girls from church, Mali was at her friend's house, so Paul and I had a picnic with Mirielle, Evelyn, Suzanne, Sonja, Jonathan, Charlotte Claire, and Camille. We had grilled turkey burgers and hot dogs and coneys, baked beans, and green beans...we ate out in the yard, and it was lovely. Except for the fight the two little princesses had about a plastic rainbow colored belt....Camille had it and Char wanted it. blah.

Our garden is now planted with tomatoes, summer squash, green beans, cantaloupe, radishes, cucumbers, and lettuce.

The poor sick children are really wanting to get to that beach so they will feel better....