The Tingens

Days of summer…and fall…

Tonya Tingen
November 16, 2014
Family, Georgia, Hazel, Holidays, Life, More Pictures, Natalie, Philadelphia, Virginia
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Sorry I don’t have the patience to create separate blog posts for the different events that have happened since JULY…

And the detail-crazy editor side of me feels compelled to apologize for also not having the patience to do any decent writing/punctuation/editing. 🙂

Basically,

July: Lewis Ginter 4th of July, Holly’s visit, up to Philly. Thanks Holly for a great visit, and thanks Brent and Jenny for having us!!

August: summer stuff

September: Williamsburg weekend with friends. Thanks Mulhollands!!!

Sep/Oct: My mom in town for Heidi and Eric’s new baby, Luke!! Thanks for all your help!!!

Nov: ultrasound, Natalie and Jacob’s weekend flight to Georgia to drive up van from Jacob’s parents. Thanks so much!!

one day the fun was playing with dry beans, then making soup

July 4 at Lewis Ginter gardens

the girls didn’t really enjoy the splash pad

fun friend

Heidi’s birthday, making pretzels at the mall

this picture turned out surprisingly well

our short-lived bean plant

Thanks Holly for having us go to Agecroft mansion

funny car in lot

no pictures allowed in the mansion, but the gardens were nice

fun knocking on giant door outside of mansion

view from city hall observatory. I love a place with a view! Miss the mountains!

I thought it was funny they had what appeared to be a little dog drinking fountain

all the kids had a great time at Buckroe beach

sisters!

Thanks Holly for staying with the girls while I went to the temple!

great sister!

cute kids at table

They had too much fun with the merry go round…Natalie and Hazel were inconsolable after we had to get off!

But then the fountain was cool. And dancing in the outdoor plaza by the entrance (too bad no picture)

Thanks for the surprise birthday celebration!

Philly temple underway!

great brother!

So cute on the subway. Thanks Brent for taking us downtown and directing us for how to get back 🙂

Cute family that moved back to Guatemala

playing in their daughter’s family’s backyard on the zipline before they left

Call me crazy…I wanted to help the girls learn a little about pioneer sacrifices, so Pioneer day I wanted to have us go on our own little trek. Rainy! We went anyway. In the park wearing dresses and pulling our own bike trailer handcart haha…the one person we ran across thought we were a little strange 🙂

saw this snake down the street on a walk, poor guy

I was impressed with how long she held on

in the airport waiting for Dad to come back from Georgia, grandpa’s funeral

for my birthday I found something different to do, a rodeo…it would have been more fun if it hadn’t been raining, but it was still good. I personally really liked the opening ceremony when they rode out with “the oldest cowgirl of them all, Old Glory” and someone sang the national anthem. They also had an opening prayer, which I thought was cool

Natalie and Hazel fun in the kiddie pool

Finally! Natalie ventured into a splash pad! Maybe next year Hazel will join…

fun sandbox at children’s museum

good friend Evoly

climbing a tree for the first time

actually whacking the piñata by herself!

I promise they were having fun

weekend in Williamsburg with friends. Too bad not a lot of pictures, but it was a good relaxing weekend

neither of the girls ended up wearing this costume for Halloween

they both liked being fairies

ah Hazel

fun family picnic at Byrd park

Natalie liked jumping on the vertical bricks

Hazel’s distraught look is priceless. Both girls always freak out when food falls onto the floor or they get some on themselves…want to pick it up/clean up right away

random trip to Williamsburg, originally to pick up an item we left at the hotel from the previous month, but then we decided to visit the free portions of Colonial Williamsburg

priceless childhood

they were struggling but it just made me laugh

a favorite pastime

lots of good time with Grandma

to the bug museum with Grandma

ATTENTION!!! GRANDMA TOUCHED A COCKROACH!!!! OF HER OWN VOLITION!!!

the girls loved watching these “sneaky worms”

experiment…freezing necklaces in water in a tupperware

then taking it out periodically so it would melt some

Congratulations Engstroms for baby Luke!!

Natalie wanted me to take a picture of her “mad witch face”

to the pumpkin patch with Grandma and the Engstroms, a very perfect day outside

silly wipe hat!

Deep Run park

Carytown trick or treating

bundled up to go running

Happy Birthday Grandma!

passing on the legacy of the princess wave (which Natalie still practices)

before taking Grandma to the bus stop

great mom!

great dad!

before 20 week ultrasound

sharing smarties, the only way I could semi get them to stay for a picture of them holding the ultrasound pictures wearing their cute matching big sisters rock shirts

playing in the “baby crib” or “princess crib” or “baby princess crib”–favorite pastime

Hazel sad to say goodbye to Dad and Natalie when they went on the plane to Georgia

She soon got over it. We had a blast walking around city hall (closed on weekend)

and going to the Aviation museum

making/shooting a rocket

ah Deep Run Park

And thank you Jacob’s parents for facilitating our transition into having room for three kids!

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