The Hamilton Family: Awesome time with those sweet Bonus kids!!!

Wow, we sure have been busy! Our lives are generally not that full of activities (and we are totally ok with that), but this summer finds us on the go. We have enjoyed it and want to share some of it with you!

While Jared and I were in New Mexico celebrating the life of my wonderful Grandmother, Josh took the girls to Curlew for the weekend to see our friends there. They had such a wonderful time!!! Thank you to the Owen family for hosting them!!! Once they were back home from Curlew, Josh took them up camping for a night where they canoed, too. Oh my ~ they had such a great time with their wonderful Daddy!!

Horse riding, gathering eggs, jumping on a trampoline, cookies, and much more fun!

The girls had fun with David and Lindy where they got to ride horses again!

The day after I returned from New Mexico Josh left for Minnesota to help care for his mother who underwent surgery. While he was gone we played some catch up on life, but mostly cared for Jared who was sick with a high fever and runny nose. He did enjoy playing in the box from his new carseat!

Poor kid - the girls gave him a princess book to look at. Oh well.

Then the day after Josh returned from MN the Bonus cousins came to spend five days with us! It was awesome!!! Emily, Nathan and Abby are such a great help with our kids. I really enjoy having them stay with us! Pictures is no particular order ~

They played so well together! At one point I am pretty sure they had every toy out! hehe But they also cleaned it all up.

We had fun doing face masks!

The boys went shooting. :)

Here's what three tired kids look like after a super fun day at Slide Waters! I, Sharon, have never really been a lover of water parks, but Josh and I took the six kids to Chelan on Sunday and had an absolute blast!!!!!! Then we came home and crashed. (We slept while the fires in Wenatchee burned.)

One night we stayed up late to play yard bowling with glow sticks in water bottles...but it was still too light out so we played in the garage. It was very hot but we had fun.

Someone gave the Bonus family this awesome thing so they brought it with them and we had fun in it.

Sweet Emily. She made zucchini bread - yum!!! She also made chocolate chip cookies! She also watched the five kids while Josh and I went to dinner with our small group. Jared was without us for four hours and he did great! He loved playing with Emily, Nathan, Abby, Shelby and Vivian ~ and he loved watching movies. :) Emily made dinner and took care of them all very well.

Forts in the office/play room.

After taking the Bonus kids 1/2 way to Richland (met Kim 1/2 way) we came home and have had a nice time catching up again. These next two weeks hold even more fun!!! Visitors from Texas and Minnesota ~ will share more later. Today we celebrated our country's independence with some yummy food and water guns in the back yard and some face painting at the park!