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!  

Frozen sisters!  The gal did such a good job and the girls LOVED it!

Now Jared and Vivian are sleeping and we are headed up to the roof to watch the fireworks!

Happy 4th of July!

Time marches on

Just found this - back from 2012 ~ thought I'd post it anyway.  :)  Shelby playing outside in Sanderson and sweet pictures of Vivian as a baby.  Time does march on!




My Grandma Griffin did pass away on March 7th. The whole Griffin clan was able to be there for the funeral, except me. I was so glad that they were all together. Grandma Griffin had been suffering for a while, so we are all glad that she is whole and new in Heaven with Jesus, our Lord and Savior! Praise God for his kindness in calling her home.

We are doing well down here in Sanderson. Thankful for the cooler evenings and nights (60's) since the days are already around the 80's.

Celebrating life!

Goodness we sure enjoyed our time in New Mexico!  There were lots of tears, but even more sweet times of remembering our Grandmother and laughing and enjoying each other.  Here are all the pictures I have:

Celebrating Grandma Klatt's life

Feel free to add pictures to this, or send to me so I can add them.  Or just let us know where you post your pics so we can all see them.  :)

Much love to all!

My grandmother

My sweet grandmother passed away yesterday (June 7th).  She was such a special lady and I cannot say enough about her.  We each had such special relationships with her.  Church was hard ~ I cried the whole worship time, just thinking of how Grandpa must be feeling. And through my tears God spoke to me, reminding me that though we hurt, we will see her again! I am so glad that she knew Jesus and that we will spend eternity with her in Heaven, praising God!!! But it still is painful here on earth and my heart still hurts for Grandpa and the hole in his life. She was so special and we love her so much!!!

As my sister put it ~ Grandma was such a unique and special lady. I love the way she gave all of herself to us. She made an effort to be a part of our lives and to teach us through her life. She is greatly missed. So thankful she is not in pain anymore.

We will miss her so much!

Shelby's 6!!!!!!

Thank you to all who loved on Shelby today!  She had a BLAST at her party.  The gifts were very kind and she liked each one!  The phone calls and cards she enjoyed a lot.  It's been an all around great day!

We are so blessed to have this sweet girl in our lives; this baby who we prayed so long for.  She is such a joy to be around.  She is a kind person and an encourager.  She treasurers her friendships.  She loves Jesus and learning about Him ~ Praise The LORD!  She's a wonderful big sister and a fun playmate for her sister and brother.  We are blessed and we praise God for her!

A climber

We love that Jared just tries things and typically isn't scared.  Yesterday he grabbed onto the slide and...

Jared dancing!

So we think Jared is pretty sweet, ya know?  And his dancing is super cute!!!  Here you go:


Jared is so sweet when we turn on music.  He start waving his arms all around and does some knee slapping.  Love his dancing!  (The music cuts off for some reason, so he sings a bit himself.)