Les and the kids drove up to Carlsbad, CA to have dinner with family. They all went to Islands, and, surprise, cousin Zack came along with the family.

Joanna was very excited to see Zack. Being that she is only three, she couldn't remember his name, but she remembered all the fun they had the last time they were together. The last time she saw Zack, they were at the beach cottages and Joanna remembered that he was pretending to be a monkey eating bananas with them in the trees. What a great cousin!






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Rachel can climb the foot stool like the other kids. She is now using her new-found power to get into many places: food pantry, coffee maker, and top of the oven.




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In case you are curious, this is the source of pumpkins. Just kidding.

Les & some friends went to "Oma's Pumpkin Patch" at the Van Ommering Dairy. They took a hayride tour of the dairy, and just in general had a great time running around, playing & getting dirty!




Rebekah's favorite place is always the petting zoo!


The kids played on cotton seeds.






I guess we should do the family pic on the way INTO the pumpkin patch, and not on the way out when they're tired & grumpy about having to leave!



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Rebekah has lost her first front tooth.






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Rachel has just enough hair to pull it back into tiny little ponytails--isn't she darling?!! (We don't know where she learned about sticking out her tongue like that.)



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