Cousin Craft Camp 2010

It's Cousin Craft Camp time again! It has been so fun having the Rissers here for a whole week!! We are having so much fun and we still have a couple more days left!!


Cousin Cook-Off... We split up into teams, chose an appetizer and a dessert, shopped, cooked and presented at the Johnson's on Saturday. We had everyone vote. Emily, Jillian and Megan won in the dessert catagory with their Chinese Take-out Cupcakes. Brooklin and Heather won with their Cheese-y Corn Dip.

The girls played a game of Kick-the-Can...

We took a trip to Painted Earth, a paint-you-own pottery shop. Grace and Ethan even got to come inbetween their vacations.

They had a Cousin Camp-Out in the backyard...

Brooklin and Megan set up shop giving massages. They earned quite a few dollars for our trip to the mall.

A little sewing...

Family time at the Johnson's...

Divingboard...

IN-N-OUT!

White Lime for yogurt...

The mall...

And last night we made our own lip gloss...

The fun and activities keep on coming!...

Summer...

All summer long I've been feeling guilty about not updating my blog. After spending some time this morning trying to get our summer down on paper, I realize that I've hardly had time to breathe, let alone try to blog...

Here's a little update on what we've been up to this summer...



Started off the summer by painting the shutters and the front door. I painted them a dark espresso brown.


BEFORE:


AFTER:

...Much better!

Emily's friend Elizabeth came from Modesto for a visit. She flew down and we drove her back home.


We visited some of our friends in Modesto. We stayed a few days with the Villanueva's and then stayed with the Proms.


Got to have coffee with some friends that I haven't seen in a few years...


The girls all got to go spend many nights with their friends.




FATHER'S DAY!


We went bowling with the Proms for Father's Day.

We came home to Murrieta for a few days and brought the Prom boys home with us. We spent one day at the beach.

Then back to Modesto for another week. Our friends went on vacation and asked us to house-sit while they were gone. The girls and I went especially so we could spend some quality time with Chad, but we got to spend some more time with friends.

BBQ'd on the 4th of July with the Proms.

Finally, back home to our own beds.

Emily started Cross Country practice on the 6th.

Chad was only home every 2 weeks or so for a weekend at a time. One of his weekends home we went to SEA WORLD!

My aunt, Heather and two of her daughters came for a week long visit. They were able to bring my cousin Haley too! We had a week of "Cousin Craft Camp" at our house.

We made recycled notebooks, bookmarks and clothing designs.

We spent a day sewing.

One day at the beach...

A trip to the mall...

And we wrapped the whole week up with a EXTRA FUN Whole Family BBQ and Swim Party at the Johnson's house.

After our company left, Emily went to Cross Country Camp and Megan and Abbey and I went Back-To-School shopping.

We still have so much going on and summer is almost over. Abbey has started soccer practice. Chad and I will celebrate our 15th Anniversary this week. Emily and Megan have orientation and school pictures on Thursday, and next Wednesday, the 12th, they all go back to school.

Whew...I'm tired...