Kids Say the Darndest Things

Quote of the Weekend:

Lily: Grampie, what happened to your hair?

Grampie: Oh.... it just burned off :)

VIRGINIA VISIT

We packed a lot of activities into three days of our visit to Jeff and Irene's. It was great to see everyone and the girls are growing like weeds. Friday Irene and I took a two mile walk with the girls and Kastor. The girls napped in the afternoon and we stayed home while Jeff and Irene went to buy some organizers for Irene's scrapbooking supplies. We all helped in the construction and then Irene disappeared into the closet to get things organized. AHHH!! We got a babysitter in the evening and had a nice dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (yummy). Saturday we took the gang to the Virginia Aquarium and had a wonderful afternoon looking at the fish and seeing how they are all fed. Sunday morning we took off for the beach to the Neptune Festival and saw some amazing sand sculptures and then tried one of our own. After lunch we went to the park to let the kids blow off more steam... then it was packing and getting to the airport. All of our flights were on time (amazing!!) except for the last one home to Manchester. We were late and consequently didn't get to bed before 1:30AM. We've been trying to recover some sleep over the last few days. Enjoy the slideshow.....

THE FOURTH

I'm the fourth person in the family in the last week to get on the antibiotic train. I join Breanna, Lucas and Kevin in the war against this nasty bug. I can't wait to see what winter will bring :(

CAMP UPDATE

Here are the "latest and greatest" photos from camp last weekend. Garage is almost done, except for the big doors, eight new trees are in, gravel fill and loam spread and grass planted. Just finished paying all the bills today. Whew...!! We will have bushes to plant and a final walkway to construct, but that will wait 'til spring. Until then, we are waiting for grass to sprout and we will hunker down and tinker with indoor projects this winter. And... there are many of those.

IN SYMPATHY

Yesterday, September 17th, Nancy lost the "foundation" of her line "Chelsea" at age 15. She was Tucker's grandmother and Denver's great-grandmother. She was a wonderful show dog and won lots of awards. She was still "pack leader" last time I saw her and was "running the show". Thanks to Chelsea, we have made many friends. I'm sure she'll be greatly missed.

SEPTEMBER 11TH

I hope that we never forget!!

TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE

A typical day at Mom's...
A little shopping, lunch and some yard work. I came home with some lovely hydreangas, an antique bushel basket, some old wooden shingles to use for kindling and her broken lawn mower. I hope the diagnosis can be made before she is wading through waste high grass to go out and get the mail :)