September 17, 2010

• Labor Day Weekend Photo Montage…

  I’ve been remiss, to say the least, about getting these up, with the very best of reasons.  My new dresser finally came, and so I’ve spent days sorting, tossing, organizing and putting away all of my clay and other crafting/art supplies.  This is a JOB!  My room is so much more fun to work in.  I’ll post photos here of it soon, but have to get these done first. 

  Joe and Amy & the kids came on the Sunday and spent the night.  Faron and I had gotten the boys their very own sleeping bags, which, at least for the moment, are going to “live” here.  (If at any time the boys want to take them home, that’s fine with us, of course.) Most of the time we just enjoyed the boys – the photos will make that very clear.    A few will require explanation, and I’ll try to be brief.  (But we all know how good I am at that. )  Then on the Monday we went to Hazel’s for a picnic.  It was such a cool day, after several down right cold nights – the pool was almost unbearable, but Joe and Amy toughed it out when the boys wanted to go in. 

  Ok – you have the set up.  Now the photos…

  

   

  If I were Joe & Derek in these last two photos, I’d be worried about just what that driver can see!    The boys love to play on my scooter, which sits in a corner of the living room, for lack of a better place.  (It must be kept indoors or the battery can fail.)  We’ve been careful not to let them know it “goes” all this time, for fear we’d never be able to get them off my lap.  Hah!  I just had to go outside when Grandpa was pulling the boys in his little red wagon (photos didn’t turn out – sorry) and neither wanted anything to do with riding.  They thought it was pretty cool to see Grandma drive, but that’s all. 

  

   

  These were Monday morning – the boys eating breakfast and looking so much alike.    And the other is Jared showing off his sleeping bag-walking-skills.  (He is so cute scooting into the bag – how do they know how to do these things?? )

   

  Derek wanted to go outside very early on Monday morning, when it was still like 50 degrees outside.  We told him he couldn’t because he didn’t have a coat.  Soon, he says “Now can I go outside?”

   

  

  

   

  Amy baking brownies for the picnic.  Jared had found her shades and insisted she wear them.  How’s that for a cool culinary chick? 

   

  

   

  The water was VERY cold – Jennie & Maggie keeping warm. 

   

  

  

   

  It was Derek who wanted to go in the pool, but notice, there are very few photos (only one!) that show him in the water.  He was smart enough to steer clear once he realized just how cold it was. (Hypotheric, declared Amy after she came up from jumping in the deep end.)  But Jared loves to swim and toughed it out, and Joe and Amy, bless ‘em, did too.  Faron got a kick out of how he’d be told to swim from Daddy to Mommy and he’d take off in the right direction but veer off just far enough away to avoid getting nabbed quickly.   

  One final shot – the kids wanted to know if we sisters had planned our attire:

  

  We did not.  My shirt isn’t truly “pink” but “coral.”  At least that’s what the catalog called it.  

  I’ve also been very busy claying, developing some new designs and having fun.  But more about that later. 

   

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