We were so happy to have the grandparents be able to come and visit. And thankful they made the long trip all the way back home safely as well. Here are a few selected pictures (from about 1500) of our fun from Mother's Day on. There were too many fun things to post everything, but here is a bunch of it.
Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for coming such a long way, bringing us so many things, so many gifts, and some of these great family pictures.
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Mother' day present:
Water heater and installation |
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"Now you can take a hot bath whenever you want mom!!!
Do you want me to pick out your clothes?"
-Andrew |
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More mother's day gifts |
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Brother sandwich |
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Abigail walking at the park |
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Starting a leaf collection |
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Amazing imagination adventures |
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Discovered a new "flavor" of yogurt.
We have plenty of love around here already, so we don't know
what this tastes like or if it works. |
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Awwwww |
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Funny animal game:
4 people each made one part of an animal and then put it together and
come up with a story about it.
This would be fun with the cousins someday! |
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At a famous park on a river sort of nearby |
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Flower crown grannies. The pushiest saleswomen you'll ever meet. But we did by some. |
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The minority waterwheels are famous here. |
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We got a picture alone together! Thanks Grandpa. |
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Scenic drive to the river |
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Using the water wheel to mill |
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Epic chess battles |
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Epic Uno battles |
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We are a lot of jiao zi |
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Family movie time and Andrew giving grandpa a very "warm" (or perhaps just hot) welcome |
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We tried fire ginseng |
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It really wasn't bad, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get it either. Kind of like very tart orange taste combined with an overripe cucumber center texture. |
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Grandma Sharla wins Abigail over with ice cream and chocolate |
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Reading The BFG and having tea parties and building Knex |
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Music games |
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Painting fun |
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Sharing with Grandpa John |
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New Snapcircuits |
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You know that time you and grandma went shopping and you got 170 eggs? (80 were basically free) This was that time. |
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Time to put the baby walker away when baby tries to climb in herself. |
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Grandma and Grandpa brought The BFG book and movie. Since we actually have something that very much resembles the movie version of "Snozzcumber" we got one and had a BFG party. |
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Snozzcumber, Frobscottle, and Dream Jar Jello |
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This is great as a centerpiece, not so great to eat. Actually, bitter melon is pretty terrible to eat. |
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9 Dragon Waterfalls Panorama |
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There are probably thousands of stairs at this parks. If you go the right way it is mostly down, but still makes your calves ache. |
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At the entrance of 9 Dragon Falls. (Also pushy flower crown saleswomen here.) |
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At the Lover's Falls |
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New clothes grandma made! |
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Abigail absolutely loves her flowered metal tea set! |
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At the big park in town. Abigail's first ride. |
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The boys loved this! And there is a picture with all 3 smiling! |
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We also went to a "mall" that had a fairly new climbing structure the boys had never tried. |
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This turned out to be one of their very favorite things! |
Wow, looks like you guys did a lot of fun things! We can't wait to talk to you in a couple hours and hear about everything.
ReplyDeleteWhat great pictures! Looks like tons of fun were had by all!
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