Family Day at RBC

Digging for treasure

These little bubble makers look so serious, but they really were having fun!

Grabbing marbles with toes in ice water--brrr!

Gone Fishin'

Hams at Play

When the cousins get together, you know there will be performing, or at least posing. It's entertaining either way! This time was no exception. I got the biggest kick out of watching Nathan and Cade. They've watched so many dress-up times with the girls and their princess costumes, but now it seems that the boys have a better idea of how they can also wear costumes, "boy" costumes, that is. It started out with just hats and then evolved into more!

Meanwhile, the girls dressed up also, temporarily got side-tracked with putting on stickers, and then joined the boys in some posing.

In the midst of this, Amelia kept disappearing to go pet the cat.

It was a fun visit! Looking forward to when they will return at the end of June--ALL of them this time!

8 Days in Dec---Day 4

On day 4 we enjoyed a lot of relaxing and visiting. By evening, we headed over to the Vidals' to let the kids make a Gingerbread House together.

Yep, you guessed it. I was exhausted and ready to sit down by the time they were done. (One guess as to who sneaked the most candy into her mouth....  :))

The Golfers

Oh, my Avid Golfer. I am not a golfer. At one point, early on in our marriage, I received a few lessons from the Avid Golfer. He very patiently instructed and corrected my stance, swing, grip, etc. and it was fun going out on the course with him--- I especially liked driving the golfcart. That was our first date even. Not playing--me driving the cart while he played :). But, as patient as he was, I soon realized that my fleeting vision of us playing together was NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. He did not consider these outings as actually playing golf. So I gave up that vision and let golf be just his. After all, I was never willing to give up sewing/crafting and there never would have been time for both! I have, however, learned to perfect my role as a golfer's wife. If you're not married to a golfer, you have no idea how much time is spent by A.G. in analyzing said stance/grip/swing--especially the swing. If you're a young-married and your husband is a golfer, you need to practice the following responses: hmmm, uh huh, really?, that's great!, wow!, and nodding is good too. And use lots of eye contact!  That's really all it takes. He's going to figure out for himself what changes he's going to make. Your job is just to be interested.  :)

On to the next generation. A.G. had such high hopes for our daughters to play golf.  Women's golf was really starting to take hold when they were young. Sigh. The interest just wasn't there for the girls. According to A.G., they had such terrific swings, too.

So now we are entering the next generation.... Aren't they cute!!!! (Notice that each has his/her own modified club!)

Snapshots

Wow, September got busy! With school starting and Jill and Marcus moving to a new home, there hasn't been much time for blogging. So here are a few snapshots.



Helper Cade really likes vacuuming! I'm hoping this lasts awhile!





Cade and Sydney pausing to rest on the trampoline.



 

                                                              

After school dress-up time



Watching NASCAR with Grandpa.



My sewing room gets converted to a movie room.



Summer Fun!

Since I am once again behind in blogging, I'm going to just put up some pictures of what's been going on. The first pictures go back to VBS in June. I was a Guide with the little cuties in Preschool. They are so much fun!

The next pictures are of Cade getting a golf lesson from Grampa. Cade was very enthusiastic about this lesson even after about 30 minutes! The part that helped him the most was when Mike would hold his own club behind Cade so he couldn't make too big of a swing. Cade got very excited when he could see that this worked for both hitting the ball and for making it go straight.

***If you're looking for an easy way to add a hole to your backyard for putting, a plastic 6" flower pot placed into the dugout hole works great! The lawn mower goes right over it. Cade's club is an old one of Mike's that he cut off and regripped for him.

Teeing up

Summer movie times:

And finally, these last 2 pics are from a post-VBS play time. The kids wanted to pretend they were camping and wanted to make a fire. So Isa had a creative idea of taking a flashlight and covering it with "fire". She colored paper, cut strips, and covered the flashlight with the strips. Then we stuck it in a tall cup so it would stand straight. Of course, then came the toasting marshmallows idea! All we had were the mini ones, and we stuck them on the end of cakepop sticks for roasting! Happy Campers!