The Zhao Family

This year we were joined by the Chang Family and the Kuehne Family to Dutch Wonderland! We had such a wonderful time because we got to park at 10:30am and didn't leave until the park closed at 8:30pm. The older kids rode all the rides together while the younger ones rode together as well! While the moms leisurely stroll around the park and the dads were mainly responsible for pushing strollers and taking photos. I went a little overboard and took quite a bit of photos and these are only a fraction of the fun our family had. Thank you to both families for joining us and making this a wonderful memorable time!

Yeah! Clayton turn this past week! We celebrated with a Ice Cream cake with his cousins at his request. Clayton has accomplished so much this year. He changes his own clothes, makes his own bed, brush his own teeth, reads his own books, takes care of himself in the bathroom, even turn off the lights by himself! Mom bought him his very own high chair and he's been very good sitting in it, eating all by himself without making a mess. He learned to pedal his own tricycle. He talks all day long with his brother and plays quite a bit with his sister. He still loves his cars, planes, and ships. I am so proud of him!









Also the second part of his Birthday was that he wanted to go to the Splash Playground. We invited all his friends to play with him running and squirting water at everyone. It was a lot of fun!

So its been crazily busy at work and time just flies. I come home and even more things are going on. Abbey tries to plan everything so that we can have fun this summer which indeed we did. But I tell you with work, home, church, family, writing to missionaries in the field, things here and there, I've slipped a bit on blogging. With all is going on, I got a quick reminder that this blog haven't been updated since the 30th! -that's more than ten days!

So Abbey dropped off Cayleigh and took the boys on a boating trip. The boys had a lot of fun and mom time. It was good!






Some research and development to find a way to catch the most fish


One looks for the fish while the other navigate!



I think they found a good spot!


So we go to the park often and as Brennan gets older, mom don't have to do so much...


...But it doesn't seem that way for me!


Can you spot the monkey in the metal forest?


The safe way to slide down so the bum hits the ground first.














You think she's enjoying outside?






Catching fireflies is a lot of fun!

Gotta make sure the equipment works and gotta stretch for all that running to catch lots of fireflies.


Magnifier works


Silliness is an added bonus to attract fireflies


And we're ready to go!








And lastly which has no context to this post: This is the proper way to eat Sushi!! A new meaning to see your seafood.