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USA! USA!

At the end of September we went to Arizona for a month. Well, the kids and I were there for a month. Matthew had to go back to work so he was with us for 2 weeks. We had such a great trip!! Truly! I got to spend so much time with my family and with Janet and with my friends. I had just a perfect trip!

We spent a week with my family up at a cabin in Pinetop. The cabin was huge- big enough to fit all of us comfortably.

I got to spend a lot of much needed time with my mom. That was really nice.

Matthew and kids

Graham, fearless on the slide

Olivia just idolized Maddie. It was adorable!

Cute little Nash

Emily and Nash

Our weird picture- that is Matthew's hand on his own face...

Feeding the ducks- Graham in the green pants

Olivia and her cousins, Marie taking pictures

Kimball posing

Cute baby Mabel sleeping so sweetly

Matthijs and Ellen - proud new parents!

Josh and Graham

cousins

I got a ride too!

A small dog- I mean child- ran after us!!

Olivia and Maddie again

Hanging out on the deck at the cabin

Chris carrying Olivia, Linkin behind

My dad carrying Graham

Matthew and Carl

Linkin

Grandkids

Grandkids with Grandpa and Grandma

Grandpa and Graham

Adorable Thalia and Olivia

Maddie painted everyone's nails. It was great!

Me and Graham holding Mabel

We had a great trip!

Hanging out

This post is just a mish mash of random doings. Goings on. The haps. Picture dump. You get the point.

Primary activity

Random bike lot - couldn't get the picture to flip but she is so happy I had to post it!

Graham just woke up from his nap. Olivia was a princess all day.

Olivia's artwork on Matthew's arm

Soaking up the summer sun on our back deck

Happy Graham at Tivoli

Hug at a church

Olivia and her friend Nora

Lacy

My friend, Lacy, came to visit us in the summer. It was so, so fun!!! She was here for 4 or 5 days. We all had such a good time with her and were so sad when she left! Come back soon!

Look at that face Lacy is making in the top right. Why?! Hilarious!!

Little, little mermaid

Tivoli

Lacy is riding next to us taking the picture.

Bondegaard

I am about 5 months behind on this blog! It is okay though! I am going to take the next couple of days and post everything from the last couple of months.

In July, Graham started attending the same school as Olivia. They are both learning Danish and making little friends! Olivia is about fluent in Danish. Graham really just started learning Danish in July when he started. He had picked up a few phrases and words from Olivia and church and a few words I say here and there, but we speak mostly English at home. It is has been interesting watching him learn more and more words since he started going there.

In September, their school, called Hurlumhej- which means hubbub in English, went on a field trip to an old, working farm.