When Anna was 2 years old my mom came up with the idea of Grands' Camp - a week during the summer when the grandkids would go to Wilmington to give the mommies and daddies a break. Well this summer, Mom got a little bit more than she bargained for! I don't think when she hatched this idea she ever dreamed we would be having 3 little ones in the span of 6 months. That gave her an 8 year old, a 3 year old, a 9 month old, a 5 month old, and a 4 month old during the week of Grands' Camp this year. So this year, the moms were invited! Caroline and I were dropped off on our way back from Florida and Leslie and her two came down the next day. We had such a great week! We were able to get all five grandkids together a couple of times and we got to spend some good time with Jeff + Johnna and Greg + Michelle. We went swimming, went to the beach (without the babies), had some great meals, and did a lot of just hanging out. Mom and Deddy took Anna and Nia to the aquarium and downtown and Mom and the older girls made some delicious jam!! It was perfect! At the end of the week Mom and Deddy kept all five kids overnight so that the mommas and daddies could all have dates. I'm pretty sure around 7 that night they were wondering why they had offered to do such a thing! Thanks Mimi and Papa!
We had such a good time just watching these five play!
Jack is getting fairly mobile and when he wants something (aka Caroline’s ridiculously cute croc), he gets it – and it goes in his mouth!
Nia and Anna had a great time together! Anna spent a lot of time ‘reading’ books to everyone! Her stories are awesome and she has such an imagination – the child doesn’t miss a thing!
Nia reading the funnies at breakfast. Papa reads the paper every morning over breakfast, so Nia was just making sure she got her reading in, too!
Anna loves to wake the babies up when it is time. I told her she could go get Caroline up and this is what we found when we walked in!
Caroline hanging out with her Uncle G! Aunt Michelle was around, too!
Jeffro’s girls!
These are the t-shirts that the kids made. The big kids used their handprints to make fish and the little kids used their footprints to make lobsters. They were so cute!
The kids and their shirts! (I know I am biased – but that is one good looking bunch of youngins!)
Mimi and Papa and their crew!
Mimi and Papa and Caroline!
When Jeffro and Johnna brought Nellie over, they brought her table. She played with it for a while and showed off and it wasn’t long before Leslie and I propped our two up their with her. That look on her face is priceless – uh, dude, could you back up off my table?!
On Thursday Jason and Will made it down and they brought the girls some cupcakes from Apple Annie’s!
Which bottle belongs to Jack and which one belongs to Will?
Mom has been saving the dresses that Leslie and I wore growing up. She broke them out one night and Anna and Nia had the BEST time playing dress up and curtsying like the lovely little ladies they are!
The day that Jason got down to Wilmington was the four year anniversary of us dating. He even brought me a cake just like our wedding cake to celebrate!
Anna does love her some Caroline and Caroline does love her some Anna! Anna better watch out, though – one day Caroline and Jack will be able to take her!
The mommas and daddies and their babies!
Mimi and the girls making jam! It was delicious!
Papa and the babies!
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