Fun July '10!

July was a busy month of traveling, making new friends and spending time with old friends. We had a great month!

The children were blessed with the opportunity to attend "Round Up Ranch" VBS while Monty and I were in meetings in Thailand. They had a great time. Manon and Henna are to the age that they really appreciate making a good friend. Here is Manon with her friend Julie Anna and Henna below with her best buddy Martha.
These photos should come first - the night before we left for our travels we were able to celebrate the 4th of July. We got together with the Langston family. the kids put on tattoos and face paint and blew through 300 sparklers in a matter of minutes. We finished the evening with a big firework display!

Henna enjoying the fun!

Ezra with Mommy close by to make sure he does not get burned

Off to the beach! We love beach vacations!!!! The children like to gather crabs, starfish, jellyfish and just sit in the sand digging. Monty likes to dig into a few good books and I enjoy teaching the children more swimming techniques and diving.

Crab collecting!

Manon loves to sit and just "watch nature," as she calls it.

This is the dragon slide. Our kids went down it at least 100 times each day. Monty and I even went down it a few times as well.

Manon packed away some sparklers from our 4th of July celebration so we could have a 2nd 4th of July on the beach. Monty was a bit surprised when he saw her unpacking them from her carry-on suitcase. He could not believe she took sparklers on the plane!