Witte End of Summer Picnic

First, we went and got hair cuts. We were the first 4 people there! 

Before...

We ran a million and a half errands, and bought new shoes for everyone, *cough* too much money.

Then we went to the Peter Pan Pirate Park to celebrate the last day of Summer with the other Wittes! 

The sky was pretty scary and we did end up getting some rain, but that didn't stop us.

 We had dinner at the park, ran into some ward friends, and Lucas's first pediatrician!

He was like "hey! I was at your wedding!" It was funny. He couldn't believe I had 5 kids and that Lucas was 8 years old.

Then it turned cold, so we snuggled and then went home.

Okay school, bring it on!

Berry Picking!

Nathan had to work most of Saturday because he was on call. This isn't something that happens very often, and because a one hour thing turned into 12+ hours and a Sunday work day as well, he was awarded Monday afternoon and Tuesday completely off.

Tuesday we took advantage of having Dad home and headed out at 8am.

It was beautiful outside. 77 degrees and breezy.

We hit up an old favorite. It is 35 minutes away, but worth it.

The closer berry patch is 10 minutes by car, and biking distance for us, but it is only open on Saturdays this year. HERE is the last time we were at THIS particular farm. 2012

 We were the only pickers there. The kids had so much fun picking and dumping into the measure bags.

4 pounds of reds, 2 blacks, and 1 white raspberries.

We made Raspberry Crumble, and a new type of Raspberry Ice Cream. This one was better than last time.

 We sprinkled mini chocolate chips on the ice cream. Juliet was being silly here.

After the farm I went to the old Den Leader's house and started my reorganizing of Cub Scouts. Really just organizing, because lets face it, no one is as crazy organized as I am.

It was a fun Tuesday.

Stephanie endings

It rained a lot while she was here. So, we soaked up our time with Aunt Stephanie!

We colored together!

We opened up the box of goodies she sent from the 80s and 90s.

 She gave me, read ME, all of our old barbies and babies. The kids including Lucas enjoyed them 

(shh! dont tell)

Steph and I even redecorated our barbie house for the kids to play with!

This was one of my favorites growing up...

It is MASON!!! LOL

We ate waaaaaaay to many popsicles.

and practiced new braids.

Jules even inherited Steph's mint condition cabbage patches.

 She named them Lucy and Monica.

Pronounced "Soo-sie and Nanica"

I was so depressed when they left that it took this long for me to post. LOL

I needed to decompress, and get my mind wrapped around my new calling.

"Den Leader"

*sigh*

This will be fun.

Tuesday with Stephanie!

We decided to take some pictures of the kids between rain storms. We got a few good ones!

I need to add that it was cold and windy and rainy.

But we got some cute pictures.

It helps that we had cute subjects!

The oldest and the youngest Great Grand kid!

Here are all of the 2011 kids!

 Dec - Mason
Feb - Juliet
May - Philip

Then on the way to the car the girls just whipped this pose.

Monday with Steph!

First, we went to the park.

Then we went to the Museum!

 

The kids had a great time!

 

The older 3 got to be on their own, and the rest of us were with the younger 4.

After the museum, we went to Little Man Ice Cream.

Salted Oreo, Oatmeal Cookie, Chocolate, Watermelon, Salted PBCup, 16th Street Chocolate, and Butterscotch.  YUM!

The kids had a great day!

We left just before the rush...

We drove home in the hail, and then had a Horn family favorite (long samwich)