A day with the grand kids

Paul had a scout camp out and Weed and Derek were moving, so the usual week end past time of hiking was not an option. Instead I had a grand kid day with the little Smiths. We had a lot of fun doing assorted things. We started our morning out with a little hike up the Red Hill and over and down to the pond to feed the quackers some breakfast...they were very hungry. The would take whole pieces of bread right out of your hand if you didn't watch them. In route we stopped at the little amphitheater where the girls performed a short number from Lion King and Tasia performed the ABC song for Grandma and Zade. After hiking back (knock knock jokes were performed at the amphitheater on the return trip) to the house we made owl cards and pasted bird feathers that we had collected at the pond on them to make them more realistic. Genghis thought they were pretty realistic and kept sniffing the feathers up. After that we got out some old jewelry that Grandma Poulsen gave me and dolled ourselves up...then we looked liked so much like princesses that we made a tent castle, with neighboring jewelry store, cafe, dog kennel and nursery and sold goods and ate pretend food. Pretty soon it was time to head outdoors again to our tree house palace with Genghis guarding the entrance along with Zadegator in the mote below (he was swinging). We got hungry soon and needed peanut butter and royal jelly sandwiches in the tree house palace. Zade fell asleep at his post while eating and went in for some Zzzz. The rest of us had a story break and then we got the mail and enjoyed looking through all the catalogs and eating princess sized apples. As we perused the catalogs we turned down page corners on all the pages that had something we needed or that someone we know needed. Almost every page had something. With that job finished we then visited Grandma's beauty parlor for pedicures and manicures. We looked so good afterwards that jubilation was in order and Zade couldn't sleep through it and woke up. We decided it was time to head for the Town Square water park to cool off in the Lazy River. Almost no one was there and we got wet all over and had a great time. Then mom called and we headed home to meet up with her. A snack of Marshmallow Mateys was consumed in the tree house palace while waiting for her to get back. It was a fun busy day. The only thing on our list that we didn't get done was to visit the pet store. We'll just have to get to that another day. (Paul had the camera on the camp out, so I just had to use the cell phone camera...sorry for the poor quality.)