Malouf blog: July 1, 2012

Well, it had to happen eventually. Carter, Ken, and Olivia have left us to return to their own home. What an experience this last year has been. We shared our lives, our home, and our genes with some pretty amazing people and, in turn, have been able to watch Carter and Ken become parents, Sulli and Olivia become siblings, and family grow closer than I ever imagined possible. I really had no idea how profound this experience would be. What a great risk and what an amazing reward.

Sulli and Olivia made Father's Day ties for Ben and Ken

Sulli turned 4! We had a wild circus themed birthday party. Sulli had about 15 meltdowns and spent a large percentage of his party in his bedroom to chill out. Even so, when I asked him if he liked his party or not he said that it was sooooooooooo fun! So I guess it was a success even though he seemed pretty miserable and I was about to pull my hair out.

We had tickets to win that the kids redeemed for prizes and everything

Ben painted this creepy clown on a homemade corn-hole game.

Can game

I found this background for the kids to take pictures of themselves in and this is the only picture taken of it. All the other kids just threw bean bags through the holes.

Ben manned a temporary tattoo booth

Sweet ice cream cake from "deskin robbins"

Teeter totter airplane from Gma and Gpa!

Heather, Sage's mom, was loving on Olivia

Trying to organize a group of 3-5 year olds is a daunting task

Happy 4th bubba!

We walked in the March for Babies this month. It was a great event. Thank you so much again to everyone who donated money for our walk.

Right before we left the Dezios at the train station we finally got a picture of me, Carter, and lil O all together. This one makes my heart ache a little. We miss these guys tons!