Day: April 6, 2010

This coffee represents a wonderful part of the weekend.  Gran and PawPaw let Josh and I have the pool house to ourselves while the kids slept inside in a room in their house.  That means several things, one of which is I DID NOT HAVE TO BE THE ONE THAT MADE THEM BREAKFAST EACH MORNING nor DID I HAVE TO BE UP AT 7:00am SHARP OR EARLIER EACH WEEKEND MORNING!  Praise the Lord for that.  It was such a great part of the weekend.  I got up, got ready, walked out and drank some coffee very leisurely.  The kids had already eaten and were well into the morning, comparatively speaking.  Thanks for that, Gran and PawPaw.

The first order of business was to cut down a tree.  Not just any tree, but a very tall pine tree that had been struck by lightning and was doomed to fall, possibly on the pool house.  I thought it should be left to professionals, but what do I know?!  I have learned that whenever two or more of these fellas get together, they just have to get themselves involved in some sort of project that isn’t for the faint of heart.

Doesn’t that look like a very tall tree?!

Uncle Tony, Josh and Mirv discussing what their plan of action should be.

TIMBER!!!!  The tree came down with no problems.  I was pleasantly surprised.

Uncle Tony wasn’t making this face at me, but I bet Irv and Josh wanted to.  O, me, of little faith.

Maybe Josh sent Mack over to me to do this.

Gran kept the kids a very safe distance away from the falling tree.

It was warm down there and had been for about a week or so.  I didn’t, however, bring the kid’s swimsuits because it wasn’t THAT warm, and I knew the water would still be cold.  But, again, what do I know?

My crazy kids swam in the freezing water!

Who needs swim suits anyway?!  We were lucky if they kept their underwear on!

Gran boiled some eggs for the kids to dye.  If she had know how much they liked to eat them, she may have just skipped the dying part.  The kids wanted the eggs to be cracked so that they could eat them instead of dye them!  Stinkers.

PawPaw grilled out hamburgers and hot dogs for us…yummy!

That night we went to their church’s Sports Park where they had a Good Friday service.  We were able to reflect on what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross and then conquering death three days later.  Good News!

We arrived on Thursday.  The kids were thrilled to get out of the car and run and play at Gran and PawPaw’s house.  They didn’t sleep much on the way down there, and Molly might have aske 8,534 times, “How much longer til we are at their house?”  But we made it safe and sound and that is what matters.

We were welcomed with a cute birthday cake for Mack and me.

We had a yummy dinner, opened a few presents and ate some cake.  I venture to say Ruby had the most cake while we were down there.  She loves birthday cake—hers or anyone else’s.

Mack got some cool Spider Man tennis shoes and flip flop kind of shoes (I found his size at our Target, Gran.)

Gotta love this shot…spider man tank top, spider man undies and spider man shoes!  We forgot his Spider Man watch at home.

And for those of you who just thought we were addicted to LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE….you now know it is true.

Gran made the girls bonnets and aprons.  They love them!!

All of the kids used their pine cone picker-uppers while we were there.  They really enjoyed that!  Better them than me!  I did pick up a good bit of pine cones on Meadowbrook Drive, but those days are long gone.

We got to spend time with Uncle Tony and GG, too!