Last Week's Fun/Schools Out

While our friends were still here the kids got to enjoy some post school water fun.


This is Adrienne, Shimada #1.


Here is neighbor friend Ines and Elizabeth drinking lemonade.


The brown-eyed, brown-haired, smiling girls.


Mr. Isaac smiling, as always.








Is there anything cuter than bath time with your friends? Gotta love the beards of many shapes and sizes.


They kept getting better and better!


I know, someday they will hate us for this but until then........


The must have every visit couch shot. The expressions are hilarious. We have rarely gotten everyone smiling at the same time. Shoot we are just happy to have everyone on the couch.


Across are: Meredith (2.5) Hannah (11.5) Aaron (4.5) Isaac (6) Elizabeth (8) Adrienne (9) Zach (10) and Gabrielle (5)

Memorial Day

Here are some pictures from our backyard BBQ on Memorial Day. We had some staff families over and some dear friends from Wisconsin. We were up to 9 children, the weather was good and everyone had a great time playing outdoors. I didn't do a good job purposing to get everyone in the pictures so I will try to explain the shots.





Gotta love this face!



This is Miss Meredith, the youngest Shimada.



Here is our Isaac.




This is Gabrielle, Shimada #2, having a great time touching her toes to the sky.




Meredith going up the slide.


These are the Shimadas from Wisconsin, some Sterners, and Adam and Holly, Scott's newest staff family playing bocce ball.



Here is Zach playing "Bags" which Scott completed the day before the BBQ.