This past week:

Frankly, I've been having a hard time with how FAST this summer is flying by.  I'm not okay with it.  So I'm taking action to slooooow things down.  Meaning more time staying HOME, and having friends come see us here.  Problem solved.  :)

This was 1 minute after Finn's 2nd cousin, Tomas, offered to baptize him in the pool.  It was awesome.  :)

The ending part of this looked painful.  

This is...not my favorite phase in development.  

Be still my heart.  

Kellan challenges Grandpa to a game.  

 So.  Fun story.  Or, not so fun.  Kellan had Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease this past week.  I had NO idea what it was, because I've never seen it before...the older 3 never got it.  One day his skin looks normal (with eczema), and the next day it looks like he has leprosy.  No kidding.  So, I took him into Urgent Care on Tuesday night to be seen, because frankly I was starting to worry he had measles.  Why?  Because I jump to the worse case scenarios when I am worrying about my children...haha.  Kellan is due for his MMR vaccine NEXT WEEK, and it felt like it would be just like my life for him to get the disease the week before.  Sigh.  So, I took him in, and after a long wait in which he finally fell asleep in the room, the Dr there diagnosed him with infected eczema  (and a 101.5 fever despite meds) and sent me home with a prescription for antibiotics.  Antibiotics that I had to give him THREE times a day.  After 5 doses of this I felt like I wanted another opinion, so I took him BACK in.  A pediatrician, not an Urgent Care Dr, diagnosed him with one look:  Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.  By this time he was past being contagious and well on his way to healing, but now I felt bad that I had exposed many people to this nasty disease when I thought it was just an infection!  Ugh.  So, his skin is clearly healing now, and hopefully his throat feels better too after a week of less eating, but it's been a fun little medical ride of a week!

A perfect summer Sunday:  Jonas grilling, girls on the trampoline, boys in the pool, neighborhood kids showing up to play...78 degrees, breezy, and sunny.  No bugs.  

Jonas spotted this double rainbow early in the week after some storms.
Cue the YouTube guy...

Kellan snuggling with Elena Davis...he was sick at this point, so extra snuggly.
Everyone cross your fingers with me that Elena does not get sick!!

The past week, including Berube family vacation 2019:

We'll see how much I can get captioned while Kellan sleeps...haha.  :)

We had a great time staying up at Jason and Angie's house in Bemidji while they went on their own vacation.  This is exactly how a symbiotic relationship works...mostly to our benefit, haha. 

I'll try to go back and add in some fun videos later on, or tomorrow. 

Uncle Dan is Kellan's fave...maybe ALMOST even more than me!

Finn is pretty good at Wii bowling!  We'll see if it improved his real life game...

Kellan LOVES music and dancing.  It's the cutest thing ever.  

The drive up.  Kellan still hates the car.  Sigh.  

A "Then and Now" photo, courtesy of Google.  

Finn's happy place in life.  

Grandma brought up a really cool bubble machine!

Princess Cora

This was so cute.  Cora came and got Grandpa for "me and you time."  They played on the swingset.  

Kellan wanted to push Cora off Grandma's lap and be inbetween them.  4th children don't play, man.  

In love with all big machines.  

The view out the front window.  

Where I spent most of MY time, if possible.  

Cora and Layla were so enamored with the little fairies in the plants on the deck that they went around with the ipad and took photos of ALL of them.  So, now, you get to see them too!  Just not all.  Because there are lots.  

The kids also took many, many photos of Finn swinging this towel around and then made a video out of them.  Haha. 

 The morning we left I basically had done no packing yet, so Jonas took the kids to the children's museum so I could pack in peace.  They had a great time. 

Kellan LOVES this water play land for toddlers.  

On the drive up.  You always gotta stop at the junk store, Treasure Island, right???

True love.

Imagine this photo in 7,000 different poses.  That's our Google photo drive right now.
The kids love them some photo editing! 

Love this one of her.  

One night Kellan was up from 2:30-4:00 a.m.  Just...because.  No explanation.  Blah.  Jonas took him to play in the garage for a while.  

Time to remove the bottom rung from all the ladders!

 This past Saturday Jonas took the kids to the mall to see the Aquarium and to walk around for a bit:

At the Apple store.  You gotta.  

Makeover time for the girls!

Lip gloss and blush = happy campers!