A Smattering of Duehrings

Our one main outing for the week was to Shell Island. It is an undeveloped island where you are free to take whatever you find home with you. There are no bathrooms on the island. I know, kind of a risky choice for our family.

So, we boarded a shuttle and headed out to the island for the day.

They ditched us at the island and it was so so hot out there.

That is alright because we are by the ocean and we can swim and keep cool, right?

Oh no! What is lurking in the water all along the shore? Is it safe to enter the water?  Who knows, but we are all to scared to try.

So, we plant our little umbrellas in the sand and start to hunt for seashells.

We find so many cool seashells that we can barely get them all home with us at the end of the day. Don’t you worry, we took about 20 buckets so we were prepared.

Then we find this cool little pool of water off the main water where the kids can keep cool. Praise the Lord for this. No sting rays in this water!

Then the kids decide that we need to take home 9 hermit crabs. One for each of them. But then the daddies decide they have to leave them on the island so they walk their little selves right back into the water, shell and all. Their lives have been spared.

Then we finally board the shuttle to head back at the end of the day. Very burnt and very tired.

Eli…buried up to his head.

Molly’s eating spot for the week

Maggie, Eden, and Jordan parasailing

I am finally catching up on the last few months of blogging. I HAVE to put pics of our Florida trip up. The kids look at our blog all the time and it always brings back memories for them. So, here we go. Lots of pictures.

It was the perfect relaxing vacation. The biggest decision of the day was pool then beach or beach then pool. It was tough. There was hardly anyone there. The beach was mostly empty. The pools were almost always empty. It was perfect.

We had a house that slept 25. There was one big room that was just filled with bunk beds. Kind of camp style. The kids were so excited when they saw it. They built forts all over the room and loved going to bed at night. They would just go to bed because bed was so FUN.

Maggie and Eden with their newest best friends necklaces.

Our kids loved helping this fisherman. They were helping him catch sand fleas that he was using bait.

more to come…

When I was tucking Molly in tonight she informed me that her dolly is in jail.

The kids went on a field trip to Shawnee Mission’s Hospital lab. They looked through the microscope to look at all kinds of cells. Before they left they decided to show them a few things that had just entered the lab. A fresh placenta and an amputated foot. Yeah, I am serious. They about lost Evan. They said he turned green immediately. I guess he won’t become a doctor after all.