Melissa Basua

Every year before school starts Adam gives all the kids a Father’s blessing. It is always a special occasion. School starts tomorrow for the elementary and junior high kids. The high schoolers start Thursday.  The first day of school seems to come sooner and sooner each year! I try to mark this special blessings with …

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Today we got together with Adam’s cousins and had a fun day letting all our kids play and swim together! It was a awesome!  

When ever family is in town a trip to the beach with them is necessary! Adam’s brother Nick, his wife Donna and their little cutie were here for a while so we spent an afternoon playing at the beach with them! Ammon’s awesome sand castle!   Boogie boarders! Uncle Nick, Zoe and Ammon going waaaay …

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Since I had some of the other kids with me when I took Ari’s pictures and it was such a beautiful day I had to take pictures of them too! I love how they turned out! I might not get school pictures this year!  

As you know Ari turned 8 in July. She should have been baptized then but we were in Utah. In August family was out of town or couldn’t come so we are waiting until Sept to do it! She is so excited and can not wait! She tells everyone she has “waited her whole life …

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Saturday was the Basua Reunion!It is always fun to get together with family. This year it was here in Oxnard so we had it down at the beach! It was a beautiful day. Adam did all the barbecuing! The kids had a blast riding the big bike around!  

Zoe has been working on her last project for her Personal Progress. After lots of thoughts and changing she decided to work on her talent for sewing. She made herself a maxi skirt. The material cost $2.00 a yard and since she only needed a yard that is how much the skirt cost! She made …

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Ammon and Zoe both headed out to camp this week! They were both so excited! Ammon and his best bud left at 4 am Monday morning and returned Saturday. I thought he would get a little homesick but with his friend he did great! He got all 4 merit badges he signed up to do. …

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My kids have to most awesome imagination! I love it! The play and entertain themselves forever when they get into a game! Britain is teaching art class! This is a terrible picture but the girls made a club house with blankets, towels and the trash cans. They had pillows and books in there, even ate …

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Outside the Botanic Gardens we found a super fun park to play at and eat lunch! There was an electronic toy that played a number of games. There was a few chalk boards and chalk to color! The little tea set area with tea set was lots of fun! The ropes coarse was pretty cool …

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