A very big adventure...(For us)

Honey and I have been doing quite a lot the past little bit...
I think I will try to catch you up on what we have been up to...

We went to visit some family that we haven't seen in real live person for just about 2 years and were so happy to be able to this Summer!
This is not a new picture of Momma K and Daddy T-it is a few years old...but because she told me I am not allowed to take pictures of her for...I think she said 25 pounds...I pulled out the old ones for now...


We went to soft ball games and saw the "inferno" burn down the competitions and win the tournament...
We didn't get to see Beans pitch, but heard from quite a few that she can scare batters out of the box because she pitches so fast.



She was a little camera shy, so I think she might be surprised that I got this one...

Shy got to come for the night when we got home and we were very happy to see her, I will explain later on about her visit.

Honey was sad because he had to work and wasn't able to see her, but wanted her to know Gramp loves her.

Our Bubba kept trying to get his tongue out when ever he saw me taking pictures...I have lots of them.

He told us all kinds of stuff he knows about boom-a-rangs and movies, school and other wonderful things.

He knows lots of stuff...

Like how to drive a golf cart.

That is a newly learned something and he is very good at it too!

We went to the play ground and museum and to breakfast and all sorts of things.

This bright eyed guy is our Little Bear, and he reminds me a lot of his daddy when he was a little boy...

He likes to do lots of things at the park too...

And guess what else?!

he likes to stick out his tongue like his big brother...

Bubba was very good to his little brothers and gave Broozer rides with him around the yard on one of the four wheelers.

This is our Brooozer, because he has gotten so big!

It's ok-we can say that and know it is a good thing.

You see he started out at only 4 pound and 13 ozs. and now he is big and strong and healthy and likes to think he's the big brother of them all and do a little pushing around when he can get away with it.

He liked Gramp a lot, but wasn't to sure about me for a while...but we got to be friends.

He can also drive the four wheelers by himself...until he runs into things, then he needs a little help.

We went and visited Kemper one morning and were happy to spend some time there...

We did some golfing. I was a part time golf cart driver and heckler extraordinaire...

Honey was the first sand trap hero...he popped the ball up and out but got a sand shower in the process...

Young Daddy T. did pretty good for himself as well...it was Beans first time golfing and she did good and had fun driving the golf carts too.

This looks like a group of silly boys that were liking to tease and play.

Then after we had visited and were getting ready to come home it was decided to call down to the U of U hospital and do a little checking and with what they said it was a split trip back home...Gramp and I bringing the boy's home with us, Beans was already on her way to the big city for school shopping with her other Gramma, Momma K and Daddy T headed into the big city and low and behold...

That night this little snugly bug came...Two weeks late...

I drove the boy's to the big city to meet their new baby brother...

Here is the oldest, youngest and middlest kids...

When they all got to come to our house Shy got to come spend over the night and meet her new brother...

Then she was off to wrap up the Summer and get ready for school too.
Tiny Dancer was not thinking it was a good thing for her Mommy to hold this little snugly bug at all-but it was very ok for her to.

And she was very gentle with him...

She played "peek-a-boo" with him and kissed him and poked him in the eye like a good cousins do.

Gramp is not as nervous as he once was to hold tiny new baby's...

I'm not sure who is checking out whom here-are you?

Tiny Dancers Mommy did get to hold him when she wasn't looking to closely...

He seems to be a very content little guy...

While Shy was here we took pictures with the big frame...

Pictures with the new old window...

We all had a bout with a flu bug while they were here, none of us at the same time, and I hope are all over it.

School is starting in various stages and Summer is winding down...

The next big adventure we are looking forward to is our brown eyed grandson's 8th birthday coming up fast and being able to visit our boating family soon...

Then this Summer can go to sleep and settle into a crisp Fall with the things it will bring...Honey and I will be content to have been able to visit and spend time with each of our children and grand children over the Summer past and will talk about how much we love each and every one of them as we settle in for the Winter month's ahead...

Remember;

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Encourage each other!!!

Going for a ride

this past Saturday found Honey and I with some time to do something out of the ordinary...we had planned on doing yard work, but it was to cold and looked like it might rain.
So we did the only logical thing....


When for a ride.



We went West to a little town that neither of us had visited before-we are planning to go back because it had some very interesting things to see...



Then we went North and found this...a stones throw off the highway.

I have become a collector of "things"...I decorate in what I call "Scanda-who-vian Eclectic". That boils down to the fact that I'm of Scandinavian decent and most of the people in the town where I was born and raised-and now have moved back to-are also of Scandinavian decent...so when some Scandinavian is getting rid of something I think is of worth I go "clect-it"...

I know you are wondering where this is leading...

It's leading to this...

I thought this was an interesting collection and display idea...No I'm not planning to start clecting tractors, but I thought it made a nice memory.

After our little jaunt to the North we came home and got ready to head South to see some of our Grand Children who were "in town" for the week end...And were treated to see this big full rainbow on the way...

Some times the day you have planned gets scrapped in favor of unplanned things and I'm so glad Honey and I took our day to explore local places that we had never been to before or hadn't been to in a long time...

Some times we just need to get in the car and go for a ride...

Remember;
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Encourage each other!!!

Knitting Lessons...

Early Saturday morning out on the porch swing.
Can you think of a better place to learn to knit?
Aunt B (not to be confused with Aunt Bea from Mayberry) has been teaching people all different kinds of handwork for a pretty long time now-I know, because she taught me to knit about 1976 or 1977...but that's another story...
This last Saturday found her teaching my daughter how to knit which was a good thing. You see although my daughter loves me very much and I love my daughter very much, we have found that car rides together and me teaching her things or trying to get her to pose for pictures? Yeah-not bloody likely.

Aunt B on the other hand is someone she will listen to more easily...and so the lesson begins...

Now just a dad-gum minute!!!

What happened to the big sister that taught me to knit?! The one who would slap my hand when I kept goofing up the same thing?

mumble, mumble,...grumble, grump...

the lesson continued...

The shear concentration involved was hysterical!!

I was there to take a picture or two and to work on some things I'm starting now for Christmas...but I did have to point out that Aunt B has defiantly mellowed over the years since she taught me-why she hadn't even bopped my daughters head once this whole lesson!!!

Hold your horses! Is that my daughter doing the *under glasses look*?!

Look out- this is where it started getting serious-ok it never really got serious, but this is when measures were taken to improve the learning environment-glasses off-hair pinned up & back to work...

Ok as serious as it was before ...

You could see right when every thing Aunt B was telling her clicked.

One of Aunt B's favorite things to do is undo your stuff to show you how to fix a mistake--ahem I remember mine coming undone lots of times...

By the by, this is not what happened here-no-I believe it was the length of the tail lesson and how to tell how much to leave for casting on for new projects- ! inch for each stitch casting on-5 stitches= 5 inches. 90 stitches=90 inches etc..

Just for me Aunt B lifted the hair so I felt better about her not being taught like I was :D

It didn't even break her concentration... she was deemed her best student so far.

So you can bet when my daughter comes to me and asks if I know how to tat, make bobbin lace, or do netting and other "lost arts" I will be pointing her right back to the porch at Aunt B's house-Because she knows how to do all that and more-and is willing to teach anyone who wants to learn...

And for the record, while Aunt B teaches my daughter, I'm teaching my daughter's daughter important things as well-

Last Monday she helped me make 2 batches of Strawberry freezer jam for Gramp (and her)

It doesn't look like much, but it made 12 1/2 cups of jam and one very tired mixer helper...

Remember;

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Encourage each other!!!