The Mustaleski Family Circus

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Holden Beach...Day 5

Today's highlights:

John, Paul, Justin, Daniel, Josiah, Micah and Emilia went down to the waterway and spent the morning kayaking. From the stories I heard when they returned, I'd say everyone had an awesome time!

Meanwhile, back at the beach, Audra LOVED watching gramma fly her kite! And she was a great helper to me while I was building a sandcastle :)

While gramma, grampa and all the kids were eating dinner, the parents snuck out for dinner. We had some peaceful, drama free, fun adult time. It was great! Thanks, Tom and Carole, for letting us get away for a little bit!!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Holden Beach...Day 4

Another day, another photo op! :)

This morning was the annual family pictures. Ummmm...lets just say the getting ready part didn't go real smoothly. In any case, we all made it out to the beach, in the requested attire, all children present and accounted for and we were just in time for The Emilia Drama Show! Woot!

I know, she looks happy in those, right? Well, how about this one...

Or this one...

Oh well! The beauty of digital cameras is that I can take all of these pictures (and the other 50 that aren't posted here) just to get the 2 or 3 good ones. I love that!

After lunch the kids all started painting the bird houses gramma bought for them. They were all talking about which birds were going to live in their birdhouses and debating whether theirs was a bird house or a bird feeder. But the main focus and the awesome results were some super cool bird houses!

Emilia took her painting job VERY seriously. She was all concentration. AND she worked on painting her bird house for about an hour and a half...without a break. And she threw another tantrum when I made her stop to let the "first" coat dry.

As if bird houses weren't enough fun in one day, we also went out for ice cream (a treat from uncle Paul--Thanks, Paul!)

And when we got home, Emilia helped me wash the dishes. I'd say all that makes it a great day!

Monday, May 30, 2011

Successful Morning

Anytime I can get a picture that shows everyone's face and most of us look happy, I consider the photo shoot to be a success. I've had to learn to lower my standards...a lot...and I have to be reminded that I've lowered my standards...a lot...(hahahaha!) but all things considered, I'm very happy with these!

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Holden Beach...Day 2

Today was bright and sunshiny and BEAUTIFUL!

The boys started the day with a trip to the ball park to play some baseball. You can't go too long without playing, you know. Your body starts to self-destruct if you don't play often enough...or something.

After they were back, they couldn't run fast enough to get to the beach!

Daniel did some fishing

Emilia jumped a bunch of waves! This is the first year she could do this by herself and, boy, has she been LOVIN' IT!!

I had to put this picture on here because it is such an Emilia pose--poppin' that little hip out to the side.

Surfing...preschool style.

Audra found some more shells to add to her collection.

This is Matthew. He was sooo funny because everytime he saw me with my camera up and pointed in his general direction he would stop what he was doing and stand there, like this, with a cheezer on his face. And he'd stand there. And he'd smile. And stand there. I had to actually tell him he could stop before he'd go on playing!! This kid is every photographer's DREAM COME TRUE!!