City Kids

Playing in the newly mown field. Sure thankful these kids get farm kid experiences!

But I betcha he's going to be itchy!

Truancy

This hard to shop for young lady needed a swimsuit and clothes to wear to church.  The evenings were booked full for the week, the previous week was already spent checking out the near by stores, Saturday was the swimming party.

What to do?

Skip a day of school to go shopping and make sure there's a picture to record it.

Because it's not going to happen again anytime soon!

Go Sam!

First tray of completely on his own cookies coming out of the oven. 

Very thankful to have another cookie maker baker in the house!

Built in Buddy

"Giddy up" says the girl with the quirt!  These two still have some special play time together. 

Snuggles

Poor Missy isn't 100% convinced she's not a cat!

It's quite hilarious to see her tail wagging so happily when Leah scoops her up for a hug.

This girl sure loves her animals.

The Best Dad

He can't even get out of his truck and he already can hear the cries, "Dad!!? You want to play basketball with me?"
He asked for 5 min. and came inside to swallow a couple glasses of ice tea.  But quickly enough he was out there giving his son a grand old run for his money.

They're so alike in so many ways these two.

And it's impossible to tell whose smile is bigger!

Exploring!!

Spent the last afternoon of the long weekend outside at one of the most peaceful places one could live in our surrounding area!  Or, at least it was peaceful until we showed up and I'm pretty sure the minute our van was back on the road the peace returned.  If Aunt Grace and Uncle Peter had listened carefully they probably would have heard a collective sigh from every bird, duck, goose, frog, snake, bob cat, eagle, salamander etc as our van backed up and left!!

What a place to explore and play!
The awesome log over the creek.

The creek's humble beginning :)

Checking out the paragliders dancing over the mountain top.

The view from the lawn chairs and fire pit. Stunning!!

Next four pictures are credited to Aunt Grace, although they were made much smaller for facebook sharing...
Once the kids had finished playing home free....

 and finished being sad over muddy mess ups...

 and finished wrestling (my favorite picture!! such a typical, everyday moment)....

 They headed back to the creek head.  Cody got it in his head to get wet :S

With help from Sam and a clay brick he was more than successful!

Not that he minded.


And yes, the dark line on his boots is where the water was up to for that minute. It was a regular cycle of going in the lake and dumping out his boots.

Very thankful to Aunt Grace for the fantastic company and place to spend a lovely afternoon!!