Dutch Wonderland




Papoo and YiaYia have made it a ritual to take the grandkids to Dutch Wonderland a few times a year. Not only do the kids absolutely love their outing, but we love our day alone as well. One of the kiddos most favorite activities was riding in the carriage and each riding on the horse individually. FUN!

Virginia Beach

Every year we hit the beach for our annual BLT Family Reunion. This year we actually stayed at a house directly on the beach which made for quite a bit of fun for the kiddos. They were on the beach all day and well all day. Brad takes family pictures every year so above are some of the pictures taken. You should have seen us all trying to line up the kids. It was quite a job!

Having a house directly on the beach was a lot of fun for kids, however it created tons more work for the adults. It became the ritual to scrub the kids down as much as possible before they entered the house, dip their hands & feet in buckets of water, throw them directly in the tub/ shower, clean up the path of sand they still managed to create, try to clean out all of the sand from the tubs, and then wash their clothes. As you could tell, this got old when on an average day i'd say we did this about 7x! I especially liked the picture of Alexandra, Isabel and Zane waiting for their scrub-down on the porch after a few hrs of playing.

We also all look forward to our yearly haircut at the reunion. Amy is an amazing hair stylist and she graciously brings all of her supplies to take care of the family haircuts.

This is a picture of our huge beach house.. I think it consisted of about 12 rooms, and 12 bathrooms, an indoor pool, ping-pong table, pool table, 2 family rooms, and gigantic kitchen! It was pretty amazing. The first day we arrived, the guys came up with this crazy idea to all jump in the ocean.. maybe it was to mark their territory?? We don't know but the temperature was only in the 60s and the water i'm sure was much much colder. It was pretty entertaining to watch. Our trip was filled with our annual basketball tournament, sand soccer, sun bathing, swimming, watching movies, and scrapbooking. Isabel felt really special to be able to sit w/ Aunt Brenda and scrapbook!

Morgan comes to PA..

Fun at the Park..