Taylor Family in JUNE

Unfortunately for half of the month of June, myself and the kids were having fun in Arizona and California, while John was stuck in Kansas City. He is not allowed any time off in June or July, so he had several days without us here with him.

We had a lot of fun in Arizona. We spent time at the Children's museum, learning how to train your dragon, spending lots of time with cousins, and playing outside and in the pool.

Here is Grandma Jones with 4 of her grandsons.

The 2 babies were sleeping. All of the boys were smiling, that is amazing!

Jude loved to swim in the tub. Him and his cousins spent hours outside playing in the water!

And little O, she just hung out, watching all of her crazy cousins play!

Here we are hanging out, after a day at the pool.
Olive is showing off her cute swim suit from Grandma Taylor!

Jude loved playing with his bubble gun and catching all the bubbles!

Here is the group of boys! They were inseparable. Jude could not get enough of them.
Here they are enjoying some pizza on the patio!

Our little girl is on the go, she is loving to crawl around and pull herself up! She can even stand for a few seconds all by herself! She thinks she is pretty cool.

After a week in Arizona, we left to San Diego for a fun week of hanging out on the beach and relaxing, well, as much as we could with the kids anyway!

Jude could spend all day playing in the water and sand.
It was nice, our beach house was right on the bay.

Every night bath time was quite the circus. All the kids were filthy and they would all love to play and splash in the tub! The picture of Olive above, reminds me of Jude. And the picture below is of all the boys ( minus little Alex), it was awesome that we were able to get the older boys to all sit still for a minute.

We spent some time at Belmont park, and here are Jude and Jacob riding the carousel.

One of the boys' favorite activity: to get buried in the sand!

Little Olive loved the sand, she loved to crawl all around in it!
We tried to contain her on a blanket, but she did what made her happy!

Here is mommy and girl on one of our morning walks on the beach!

The boys all loved to run in and out with the waves, they would try and jump over the waves! Jude was in heaven! He loved the beach!

Here he is sporting his sun glasses.

After a hard day on the beach, Jude passed out in my arms.

So he enjoyed a nice relaxing nap under the shade on the sand.

We had such a fun time, as always it was nice to spend time with family.
But it is also nice to come home, and see John and be home.