Peach Update

The peaches are growing!!!!  Woohoo.

Taming the Blackberries

After a trip to Home Depot for wire and posts --- we are set to tame the blackberries.  They are everywhere and it's hard to believe we only planted two stalks a couple of years ago.  Wow.

Colorado Boys Come To Visit - Day 10 & Good-byes

It's our last day together and I'm pretty dang sad about it.  The house has been filled with giggles and adventures for 10 days.  Now, admittedly, I have missed sewing but these guys have been well worth it.  We have a few items on our list that are not checked off and that must be done -- right?  Cookies!  We haven't made cookies yet.  Where did the time go?

Ryan, Caleb and I head to the kitchen first thing and get our cookies underway before anyone else is ready to go somewhere.

We are doing sugar cookies, the dough is made, and it is time to roll.  Fortunately, I have two rolling pins.  Yep, good Gammy.  I pull out some cookie cutters that are pretty basic and away we go.  It takes a few minutes to explain that we can't just cut circle after circle in the same cookie.

Colorado Boys Come To Visit - Days 8 & 9 (Amanda and Trent Join Us)

It is a gorgeous Sunday morning in Dallas.  Simply wonderful.  Today is Songkran Festival in the Thai culture and we are going to go and enjoy the festivities.  (I did a complete post on this last year if you want to read ALL about it -- click HERE.)  Jen and Jon meet up with us as we are parking and we are off for some food, fun, and cultural moments.  As we enter the grounds, many musicians are set up and playing some beautiful music on the most interesting instruments.

It seems like no matter who we bring here, they make a beeline for the koi pond and today is no exception.

Colorado Boys Come to Visit - Days 6 & 7

It's an early day today.  We have a VERY full day in store and are excited to get it started.  The DART bus picks us up at home and we are off to the train.  At Union Station, we leave the light train and run to a much larger one.  The TRE is sitting there waiting for us and we grab upper level seats, complete with a table for playing games during our trip to Fort Worth.  Cards and cars make appearances as we pass the time.  It's not too crowded on the train so the boys can visit and play without disturbing too many people.  

Destination Imagination with Jon and Jacob

I have escaped from the house and three grandsons to go and watch two grandsons with their Destination Imagination presentations at the state competition here in Dallas.  It is such a great group of kids to be around --- always creating and coming up with ideas.

Jon's group presents first and he has built a Crab robot as part of their skit.  I love the flag from Brazil as well.

Soon, the stage is set up and ready to go.

And action!  It's pretty fun how the sun moves as well as the waves.  A lot of work went into this --- yep, that's Jon -- behind the newspaper -- controlling the crab and speaking for him.  Good job.  Nice presentation.

Jen and I find some fun hats for an upcoming retreat and soon it is hats all around.

Next it is Jacob's turn for his team to present their skit.  Let the set up begin.

Again, well done and fun to watch.  This one had a definite Asian theme going on.  These kids are remarkable.  The backdrop wall has at least three different scenes and changes throughout the skit.  Cool.

Once the skits are over, I have to head back to the house and rescue Grandpa from three little boys.  That's a joke y'all.  He does wonderful with all the grands and loves every minute with them.  Thanks Jen, Jon, and Jacob for a fun morning.

The tiger hat is back.  I think I saw a ton of that in Washington D.C.

New fads --- I know my parents and grandparents thought I was crazy too.

Lovin' The Outdoors -- Well Mostly

It's another beautiful spring here in Dallas.  Flowers are blooming everywhere and the blackberries seem to be happy as well.  We have baby peaches making an appearance and all is wonderful.  Well, almost all.  For some reason there is an outbreak of caterpillars everywhere.