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| Green Ember Chalk Pastel drawing lesson |
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| Alexander's Heather |
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| Andrew's Heather |
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| Andrew's Pickett |
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| Alexander's Pickett |
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| Green kids |
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| They enjoyed using the green things carried over by their Great Aunt and Great Grandma last year. |
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| Pink princess and her new plastic purse and crown |
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| Plants are still alive |
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| Science Experiment: How water absorbs more heat than air |
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| Pop! |
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| Not popping |
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| Grandpa decided he was going to be the orange grandpa so we got all the orange things we could find. |
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| The boys put on a Bear Show |
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| Fun things at the big park |
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| "Don't drive me grandpa!" |
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| A reason to fly across the ocean |
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| Buying plants and pots |
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| "Look at that couch!" (You've lived here a while if you think that's a couch.) |
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| Orange cake for Grandpa's Day |
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| Big adventure climbing to the little house on the hill |
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| This guy followed the adventurers a long way |
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| Little park |
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| "Where's Andrew?" |
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| Morning time--we're keeping it really real here |
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| Strawberry picking |
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| Sunrise pictures |
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| Friends house for a traditional meal |
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| Corn ice cream bar |
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| Apparently we are quite intense when we watch Snow White |
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| Watergun war |
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| All the orange food is grandpa's |
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| Cookie pizzas |
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| We did an experiment where we dropped an egg 4 stories to the ground with a parachute. Here is the prototype. |
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| Kids decided to send a few stuffed animals each back ahead of time with Grandpa. Andrew came up with the idea of writing goodbye letters to them. |
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| Abigail wearing her new pink shoes. |
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| This game is called how many things can we make one grandpa do at once |
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| Art lessons |
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| Andrew had lots of fun learning from Grandpa |
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| Egg parachute adventure |
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| Tackling grandpa |
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| Learning the knock grandpa's clothes down game |
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| Paper planes |
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| Sharing chips |
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| Same strawberry picking, different camera |
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| More little house on the hill adventure photos |
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| The building was used for a TV station relay center a long time ago |
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| Buying plants and pots |
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| While doing errands they randomly found peacocks and... |
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| A camel! |
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| The older two got to ride it |
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| Big boys playing on the big teeter-totter |
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| Thankfully, no one was injured |
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| Making cookie pizzas |
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| Lots of games were played |
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| Big girl pigtails! (And these were the three animals she decided to send back to the states all on her own.) |
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| Planting with grandpa |
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| "That silly grandpa!" |
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| Making a new game called Oligarchy |
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| Grandpa creating cards for the game |
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| Grandpa bought all the kids waterguns. And one for himself. And he made a rule: no shooting in the face. |
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| Trip to the zoo |
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| Pandas got a little out of control |
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| The kids were so happy their friends could meet them there. |
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| The younger two kids got to ride Illamas since they missed the camels |
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| And all the kids got to feed tigers, because that is something unique to do here. |
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| Andrew got the tiger to jump for him |
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| They also all got to pet baby tigers |
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| Cheeseburgers at the airport! |
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| It's tough to say goodbye |
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| "Is grandpa upstairs? Is he at the hotel? Why did he have to go back to grandma and the peach trees? Can I have more chocolate truffles and hearts?" |
