Cousin fun!

What a crazy fun July we had!  SO much action!  Most of the cousins got to come to town for a visit!  There's something so great about cousins!

This year was super great because Owen and Sean were pretty excellent independent swimmers!  Grandma and Grandpa Motley's pool is always a cousin magnet and the

weather was nice and hot just on the right days!

But...this mama duck's eggs hatched!  And they naturally went into the pool...not understanding that it didn't quite work like a pond...and was much harder for tiny duckling legs to get out of!  So Amy and Karen place a piece of carpet at the edge of the pool for a ramp!  It mostly worked, and since we didn't want the pool to be overrun by ducks, kids and ducks played simulateously!...though the mama would get pretty nervous and the ducks didn't stay around too long.

Otter Pops are a big hit after swimming for a while!

These 2008 cousins are pretty cute!  They all had fun swimming with their "muscles."

What awesome Aunties to help with my little guys while I was helping Sean {he needed me to partner him} go on the big slides at Sunsplash!

Here are those 2008 cousins again{minus Hudson}!  I love these kiddos!  How I wish these girlies lived closer so my kids got more girl exposure!  They just don't have any clue what to do with girls!

And here are Ryan, Sean, Dylan and Carter at Sunsplash.  What was so great about this time was they hauled that huge quad inner tube up the tall stairs all by themselves!

And after the Watsons came to town, we had more pool fun!

The waterfall is the main attraction.  In Ryan's journal entry about playing with cousins he said his favorite thing was to jump and jump and jump off the waterfall!

Hitting beach balls...catching footballs...getting thrown....such FUN!

So glad these guys made it here for a visit this summer! 

Gross!

 As always we wish we'd had more time, it's just never enough!  Love you all!  Can't wait til next time!