priceless times

My older 3 princesses are at Church Camp this week with their memaw and 2 cousins.  Memaw is super brave.  I have the {awesome} opportunity to stay in her home {with a/c} and take care of my niece, Aurelia and my 2 babies. Prince Charming's sister and her husband and three children are missionaries in Molango, Mexico.  So it is rare that we see each other.

 Enjoying the silliness and girlie behavior of these sweeties.

You can tell they don't live in the US.

  I told them we were going to eat ice-cream sandwiches for lunch

 and they both laughed and then said, "ewww."

  Until they saw what I was talking about.  We had seconds. {hush}

Times with cousins are the best.

When you live in another country from your cousins, times with them are precious.

When you both live in different countries from America, times with them are priceless. 

  Some of my greatest childhood memories include

 jumping hay bales and roaming through the woods

 with my cousins, at our grandparent's farm.

I'm so thankful that my children are making lots of memories this summer.

 
Wow. I can't believe that it's been almost a month since I've posted.  The kids and I are enjoying a little family time in Louisiana for a few weeks before we head back to Jamaica to host 3 awesome groups.

Acorn Owls {art project}

give the girl a piece of cardboard and a glue gun and she'll occupy herself for hours!

 I recently returned to the States for 13 days to attend my Grandmother's funeral and spend some healing time with my parents and siblings...and their young-in's.  My sister Jessica brought her 4 kiddos to stay at our parents house so I wouldn't get lonely for little girls.  She has 3 girls and a baby boy.  Eva,  Gigi, and I did a fun project one windy day and it turned out great.  We went on a search around Papa's house for acorns....found a big ol' copperhead.  Next story.

Side note: Aunt Maria can pack 2 kids and run at an amazing speed through a brushy Ozark Mountain woods.  Auntie Maria is terrified of snakes.  I can handle me any spider, rat, lizard, stingray....even throw in a couple barracuda and I don't get to worked up.  But if you drop a wiggly fishing worm in my path I stop breathing! It's unBiblical to be "ok" with serpents.  I promise you.  I read it!

Back to our project.

 We collected acorns and with the help of Grandma's trusty glue gun and a little felt we made wings, feet and little beaks.  No matter how old or young you are...google eyes are da' bomb.  Seriously they are cool.  I wish I'd invented them.

 We cut up a cracker box and each girl designed it individually.

The girlies talking in their "owl" voices was cracking me up.  Gigi's owl liked books and kept reading.  Eva's owl kept jumping on his bed and hiding on top of his book case.  {sweet memories}