Summer Camps

Abby's day camp came first: a Frozen themed musical theater workshop.  Her friend Kiera went with her.

After three days of learning about the musical theater and practicing songs, a group of excited girls sang and danced their hearts out to the doting audience of parents and grandparents.

My shy Abby did a great job and I was so proud of her for doing it. 

During that time, Isaac and I had some time to have a mother-son date

(and then I dragged him around to a bunch of stores to find the perfect chair but we had a great time just being together).

Isaac's Robotics camp came next.

He introduced me to his robot, Josh, that he and his partner designed. 

Isaac was thrilled to tell me Josh won the competition.  

We sure are hoping Isaac gets into robotics club this year.  He really enjoyed it.

Abby enjoyed some mother-daughter time with me.  We had breakfast and got our nails done. 

She also came to work with me.

Love the one on one time.

Lubbock

 Hop in the car and drive the long, 

uneventful road

Stop over for Chick Fil-a's cow appreciation day

And arrive in Lubbock for more cousin fun!

Arm wrestling...

Luke still has the size advantage. 

Drive in movie 

Double Feature...Minions and Inside Out

The next morning, we woke the kids up early (after a late night) to be extras in Uncle Matt's commercial.

It was fun to see Uncle Matt at work and in his element.

They were supposed to be sick kids at in the hospital waiting room and since they were tired and disheveled, I think we pulled it off!

The rest of our visit, us moms were busy at work in Robin's room, while the kids had the run of the house.

Robin is amazingly creative and was so sweet to help us make special "fish extenders" for our thanksgiving family cruise (shhhh) 

She also helped us make little goodies for us to give the ladies in our family once we're there. 

An ornament for each family

And shirts for everyone

We kept thanking her because we would have never been able to do all this without her.  But she kept insisting she was having a blast, and was almost as excited as if she had been going herself. That girl loves to travel. (Her travel blog is Have Kids Will Travel) 

After two days there, we hopped back in the car for the drive home.  Only, we were missing one person...Isaac.  We left him behind (on purpose) to spend some more quality time with Luke and Ellie, and to experience his first ever unaccompanied flight home. 

He did have a wonderful extra few days with the cousins

And then did a fantastic job on the flight home. 

I didn't get a great picture but he was so proud of himself. 

Aunt Lindsay said it looks like he's shooting a laser from his halo. 

Cousin Swim Fun

Aunt Teri was so sweet to invite us over for a cousin swim day. 

After we went inside, the kids played and Abby had lots of fun making smaller and smaller owls out of play dough. 

Such sweet cousins

California Vacation 2015...San Diego extension

Our flight home was delayed by Tropical Storm Bill

"Oh No! Mr. Bill!"

 Hmmm, what to do.

 We decided to stay in Downtown overnight so we could do some shopping and be close to the airport.

A little night swim. 

And we used the pool again in the morning. 

Our view of the bay and Coronado. 

We walked around Seaport Village to do some shopping, and we saw some cute ducklings. 

Time for just one carousel ride before we headed to the airport.  

You can see the USS Midway from Seaport Village

And the Coronado Bridge

Greek lunch before the flight. Yum!  

Turns out Mr. Bill was a dud storm, but the extra day was pretty awesome.  Goodbye San Diego.