Beach & Baby Shower ~ What a weekend!

The Fab Four + a few

Up until a year ago these 4 comprised the first batch of grand-children we had.

Within the last year we've added a group of 3 more!

Henry (soon to turn one year old) isn't so sure about Max and the feeling is mutual it seems.

The youngest grandchildren, Katelyn and Garrett. She is getting around so well, playing on the floor. Garrett sleeps a lot during the day and is awake a bunch at night but he is growing and more interactive each day.

Westward Ho

On Saturday 14 out of the 20 of us, Harlan Hilmans, went to Seaside, OR.

It had been 10 years since some of us had been to the coast.

We should go down there more often just because it is a beautiful drive on the way there.

Playing in the HUGEST sandbox ever!

The weather was cool and foggy when we got there in the late morning. Kids will be kids though and soon they had shed their jackets and were having a great time.

The sun broke through the fog in the mid-afternoon. It was a nice temp in the high 60's. Portland got into the mid-nineties that day. I was glad we were at the coast. We got there early enough to have a nice big area to ourselves though there were a lot of people there by the time we left.

Cherise is our water girl... loves swimming, turning her face up to the sky during a rain shower and skipping in the ocean with Wyatt and Genevieve.

Our Eight sort of...

Blessings on Baby Garrett

On Sunday afternoon I had a Baby Shower for Garrett. He got some really cute things. Joylynn had help opening the packages.

It is rare that all 5 of our girls are in the same place at the same time... it is also fairly rare for the 4 Zywicki girls to be all at one place too, so it was especially great to see all of these beautiful women together at the baby shower. Could the next time it happens be Courtney's wedding? =:o

Above right: Courtney and Katelin. Friends for a long long time.

I asked the more mature women to pray a blessing over the little guy. He is blessed to have these ladies in his life.

Sink Baths

I am so glad that I found that sink at the resale shop a few years ago. It has one shallow small side and a deep larger side. It is very conducive to bathing small children.

Genevieve isn't exactly small but Wyatt was up in the tub and we wanted to get everyone scrubbed up and jammied before it got too late.

What I hope we are doing for a long time to come

It is so nice to just hang out with the grands.

We had our 8 kids, 7 grandchildren and 2 of the sons-in-law here yesterday.

Our life is busy and exhausting but we are so blessed!