Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Weekend

David’s brother and sister-in-law visited us this weekend. They brought their four grandchildren too. We had two of our grandsons with us so we had a full house. People were sleeping everywhere.

I love these two people. We laughed a lot. I had to leave the table one time after something Terry said because I was laughing so hard. I love people who can make me laugh.

The gang of six. The four on the left are Bill and Terry’s grandchildren. The two boys on the right are ours. They got along really well. They are second cousins, I think. This will probably be the only time they will ever all be together as we live so far apart.

We tried to pack a week’s worth of fun in two days. We had a cookout and we had sweet corn, so David put the kids to work shucking corn. They did a great job.

“I came all the way to Indiana just to do this?”

We didn’t make them do child labor all weekend. There were fun times.

Swimming and getting dunked in the pool.

Hot tubbing. Funny how much kids like to get in the hot tub. Especially that bald headed kid there in the corner. We had to keep him under control at all times.

David had built everyone a birdhouse and the kids painted theirs. Well, some did.

I did no painting and still managed to get paint all over my hands.

Terry is a good artist and I asked her if she would paint a birdhouse for me and she did. I will show it to you on the next blog. It’s really pretty. She didn’t get to do all she wanted because of time constraints, but I love it.

There was chicken holding. The girls behaved very well with all the handling. Penninah likes it.

I fell in love with this sweet girl. I could have kept her, but her parents want her back, so that won’t happen.

We went to Zaharako’s, a local old fashion ice cream parlor and ate ice cream. We took the kids to an inside playground we have in our city and they played there for a while. We blew up balloons with lights in them and they waved them at cars at night as they passed. We played Dizzios. We had a birthday party for the twin boys who turned eight. Yes, we tried to do it all.

They all went to church with us Sunday morning and we filled one and a half pews. Then we ate dinner and went swimming again and then they all packed up and left and our house felt so quiet.

This picture kind of sums up what two pair of grandparents feel like after a full weekend of fun times. Bill and Terry still had to go visit some more relatives for a couple of days and then drive back to North Carolina.

We still had our two grandsons for a little while and I took one on a walk with me and Belle. The other one wanted to watch television.

So we walked about a mile.

My grandson took this picture of Belle. Turned out pretty good I would say. They went home, but we will be spending time with them again next weekend. Our son also came over from Cincinnati for an afternoon, so we got to visit with a lot of family which is what I love.

I will leave you with two beautiful pictures of insects I took with my new little camera.