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I love my three sweet monkeys...

 I was feeling brave one day and took all 4 kids swimming by myself.  Besides Smith's blowout swim diaper, it all went well.  They wore me out, but we all had fun.  Zane and Emmy got to have two straight weeks of lessons and loved every minute of them.

 We went to the Butterfly Pavilion with Judi and Bob on morning.  They got to hold Rosie the Tarantula.

 Counting bees

 Feeling the Starfish

 Snack time with Bob

 Emmy loved the butterflies

 They tried holding really still to see if the butterflies would land on them.

 Later that night, we went to Casa Bonita with family for the start of our family reunion.  All of the Heugel clan came for the entire weekend.  The kids loved Casa Bonita, especially the cave divers.  Smith was completely mesmerized by the divers. I have almost never seen him as excited and enthusiastic about anything.  He told the story to everyone over and over... "He went in the WATER! I got all wet!" Black Bart's cave was still too scary.

 Puppet Show

 Molly was happy to see her cousin

 Then, the next day, we got to hang out at a park all day.

 Our family made this awesome box town for the kids...

 Zane and Smith were helping Grandpa Dave  and Anthony set up some games

 Lunch with cousins at our house

 We had everyone over - here's a lot of the family in our backyard

 We played baseball in the backyard too - and the three princesses came to play too.

 When Zane and Emmy were at swim lessons, Smith and Molly and I hung out.  Sometimes we swam but sometimes we just sat and waited. This was a waiting day...

 Zane tackled the diving board...

 Just a cutie - Smith was pretending he was driving to McDonald's to pick us up some dinner.

 I just took this picture one day at lunch to show what our normal meals looks like. Molly is getting so big - she eats pretty much most of the same food as our kids now.

 Molly and Smith were playing together in our backyard in the water table

 Shower time!

 We have an awesome trail really close to our house, right behind our neighborhood.  The kids call it hiking, even though it's pretty much just a walk.  It has awesome views and we love it.  This day, we brought Molly along too.

 Smith was fussing and crying for most of the walk - we finally figured out it was because he wanted to be in the backpack instead of Molly.