Backtracking a bit, the day after Christmas the Crook Grandkids came over & stayed with us for a couple of days while Lori & Jim celebrated their 20th Anniversary! Here's a few of the things we did on their visit to stay busy.
1. The kids picked grapefruit & oranges.
2. Megan & Caley went outdoors to practice their skills at photography, therefore a few
pictures of me posing for Megan. Good job Megan!!
3. We promised the kids we'd take them to see "Tangled" so we all loaded up in two
vehicles because we wouldn't all fit in one of our vehicles & were off to the movies!! They
said their favorite part was all the lanterns or lights in the sky at the end!!
Cute movie!! Then picked up pizza & pop on the way home.
4. We were planning a hike up Carver hill, but Annika came down sick & the older girls still had
had coughs after just being sick themselves, so we cancelled that.
5. The girls & I put together the puzzle I got for Christmas of a Hawiian beach scene, where
we'll wish we could be a little later this year or anyplace like it!!
6. We played several board games, & other: Banana Grahams, Scategories & Chicken Foot
with the Dominoes.
7. I taught them how to play "Anti-I-Over" that we use to play with my kids when they
were growing up at Lori's suggestion. You divide up in teams, one team on either side
of the house, one throws a small rubber ball over & the others have to fetch it then run
on either side of the house & try to tag members of the other team. Which can either
then be out or have to join their team, according to how you set the rules ahead of time.
Only we couldn't find a rubber ball so were trying to play with Ryans' new bat & wiffle
ball set & that wiffle ball had so many holes in it the wind made it hard to get over the
house. Megan was pretty good at it. I resorted to batting it over with Ryan's bat! Hit
the window several times, oops!! Ryan (age 3) was a great cheerleader, "hit it harder"
Grand-Vona!!
It can really get the blood flowing, keeping up with the grandkids is more than a trick!! I
broke Ryan's ball so Kelly gave him one of his harder pickle balls, and we played on!!
8. Watched some T.V. And the kids played with some of their Christmas gifts! Wha la!!
Happy 20th Anniversary Lori & Jim!! Hardly seems possible!
9 years ago
