Russells and Retreat

Our friends, the Russells, came into town last Monday evening! Ryan and I met Ryan and Christie while we were in Wake Forest. They have three kids: Caedmon, Athan, and Holland. Josiah LOVED having the company, and has been talking about them since they left this past Sunday. We had our summer retreat last week and Ryan Russell did the teaching. Christie and I took the kids along with us to the camp, which was just about 25 minutes away. Even though it was hard at times to keep the kids happy and entertained, we had fun together...making it through the days:)

The kids eating dinner the first night.

Bedtime Bible reading time...Ryan and the kids:)

Christie and I met up with Rachael and her kids at the pool. Check out this pool party!!!

Athan Mae

Holland...major breakthrough: she let me hold her!!!!

Charis and Holland

Caleb jumping off the board!

Christie and I went to pilates on Wednesday.

We also went to Walmart on Wednesday. The Nestle Quick Bunny was there!!! The kids (except Holland)loved the bunny. We also got free ice cream and also free T shirts for the kids:)

Here's Josiah with the girls at the camp:)

The camp had some playground equipment, which came in very handy for us!

Randall and Aedan

Randall is one of our teenagers, and he is so great with the kids...they loved pretending to be dinosaurs with him.

Aedan, Randall, and BJ

Aedan on the rings.

Ryan and I

There was a pool at the camp, and the water was so cold!!! It took Joisah a while to actually get it, but once he did he was fine.

Christie and Holland

All the kids at the pool:) Christie was entertaining them!

On Thursday night, Christie and I came back to Cookeville and went to McDonalds. The main purpose in coming back was to bathe them since they were super dirty. I'm glad we made the choice to do this:) This is a great shot of Christie and her kids...all looking at the camara and smiling:)

Athan, Josiah, and Aedan playing piano.

Josiah and Aedan on the porch swing.

Josiah and Coleman playing outside.

Greg helped Josiah hit his first ball!!!! yay!!! This is actually the second time he did it...I missed getting a picture of the first one. (See the ball!!!!)

Caedmon eating with the big boys.

Aedan liked to swing like this.

Josiah

the kiddos:)

On Saturday night we met up with Daniel and Rachael for dinner (without the kids). Thanks to Shane, Cathy, and Cathy's mom for watching all of the kids. We really appreciate it.

the girls

the guys

Ryan, Christie, Daniel, Rachael, Ryan and I
(The McGrussellhorns)

After dinner we picked up the kids and put them down to bed. Matt, Chad, and Justin came over to hang out while the kids were sleeping and we went to the Lowhorns:) Thanks guys!!

Time to say 'goodbye'!