Visit from the Freeds

It was very nice to have my sister, Joy, here along with her husband, Shaun, and 3 kids, Elena, Greta, & Landis.  Their children have never been to our house in the summer time.  For those of you who are family, you already saw a bunch of Joy's pics of their time here.  I have a few more beach pictures and some from our house down at the pond.  These are for you, Joy.

 Elena is actually standing up in a very deep hole that was filled in around her.

The finished sand fort, mostly built by these girls.  Dwight & Devan are building a moat around the front to protect it from the incoming waves.

A picture to prove that all my kids were there.

They all had off on the same day without planning it!

We had a lot of fun just hanging out at our place and it was a hot weekend so the pond felt nice.  Actually, it was so hot we were trying to find the cold spots in the water!

 The zip line has had fishing lures (and tangled line) stuck on it since last summer.  Lyn, Shaun & Dwight got them cleaned off and the kids had fun just using the zip line from the low end and swinging out over the water.

Ready.....

 ....hang onto knot and start running....

Wheee.....sail out over water and let go.

(Sorry, Elena, my picture of you doing this didn't turn out.)

Of course, Renae thought that Dexter had to join in the fun!

And this last picture is to prove that Joy was actually here too!

I don't know why we didn't take a picture of Joy's whole family together!  And I only had 1 picture taken in the house....the one Joy put on her blog with the girls on the couch!  Oh, well.....  Thanks for coming!  We really enjoyed having you here.