Summer of the Frogs

We've had a fun summer getting out and exploring our beautiful world!

A theme this year seems to be frogs.  Here are River and Daddy at a recent Family Night. 

We went up the canyon and while playing in the water found quite a few frogs hopping around.

We enjoyed making corrals for our frogs - I don't think we'll go into the frog business though - they kept jumping out of our corrals!

Silver enjoying one of the frogs in her cup!

There are about 8 frogs in this cup that keep jumping around, true enjoyment!

Whose legs are whiter?  Daddy's or the frogs?   :)

We also raced "boats" down the current - leaves, flowers, sticks, it was an enjoyable evening.

Simple Family Night lesson to go with this activity:  Dad:  What happened when we got out of the water and onto the sand?  River:  Our feet got all dirty and muddy!  Dad:  How did you get your feet clean again?  River:  Got my feet wet in the water and it washed away the mud.  Dad:  That was like repentance - when we make mistakes or do wrong things, it's like we get dirty.  Jesus has made a way for us to become clean again and wash away the things we do wrong when we ask Him, and do our best to not do it again.  That's repentance.

Another frog memory this summer was the 24th of July - we went out to Uncle John and Aunt Tadi's house for fishing and fireworks.  We found frogs as a bonus and each kid had a frog to race.  They lined them up on the sidewalk and then cheered their frog to the finish line. 

On another adventure, we found "Poly-frogs" at Paca and PacaMa's ranch.  River got a kick out of these little wiggly guys having multiple names:  poly-wogs, tad-poles or her favorite poly-frogs!

River even caught one herself!  These were pretty wiggly, and we had a lot of fun!

Daddy sure lives in a dry part of the world for liking fishing :) 

Here he is trying to catch goldfish!

I got a kick out of this outfit - 'Lil Darlin' shirt with blue jeans that match her eyes and silver sparkle shoes, topped off by the hat!

Daddy and Kin checking to see if our vessel is sea-worthy!

Florida Swamp or Arizona Cow Pond? 

True FUN!

High adventure!

Race between teams of Kin/Ron and Colt/Sherre.

Fun Memories!

Silver loves to do everything that River does.  She is quite the trooper trying to keep up and climb up!

Silver kept saying "Ta-Da"!! When she'd climb onto the fence.