We had yet another fun-filled vacation to Franklin this week. I’m tired and not going to go into detail, but here are some pictures for those who are interested. :) Let’s see if these pictures say a thousand words.
Pictures from the first day in town are on my previous post.
Sunday morning Lex built a basketball hoop, complete with backboard and ball, out of Laser Pegs. These things are pretty cool!
He took the picture above, then turned on the laser pegs and turned off the light and tried to get a picture of his basketball hoop all lit up. This is the best he got. It's hard to take pictures without a flash.
Sunday afternoon Alan and I went out to a matinee and early dinner, when we returned we found Mema and crew painting. She must have been feeling brave. Eve loves painting!
Eve painted a rainbow, complete with sun and rain.
Alan and the kids got a lot of playtime on this trip. I think it was good for all of them.
Rainbows were all the rage in the art world this trip. Lex added some birds (and sound effects!) to his picture.
Mema bought Eve a new puppy at the grocery store and Eve loves it! She's a sucker for pink puppies :) She drew a portrait of the puppy, complete with flowers, grass, sun, sky, and "I love you" dialog.
Eve and I were being crabs. How this makes us crabs, I'm not sure, but Eve was insistent that we were and Lex was happy to photograph the silliness.
Whaaaht?!
Guess who took this picture?
Another drawing of pink puppy. The stuffed animal has a little bump on top of its head, which Eve says is a boo-boo. We put a marker cap "ice pack" on it. That's what Eve drew in the picture.
Time for some outside fun. Driving the broken down lawn mower! :)
Heading up to the old milk house.
This used to be our playhouse. Looks like B-Dogg was there too! :)
Can't visit home without a walk up the tractor road. With all the development going on these days it's no longer a tractor road, per se, but it always will be in my mind.
Poor Alan was sick the whole time but he managed to drag himself up the hill for some fresh country air and sunshine.
After watching the girls basketball game on Friday we got on the subject of donkey basketball. How we made it there, I'm not sure, but we did. Mom got out an old yearbook (my senior year, OLD!) to see if she could find some pictures. Instead we found B's comments on almost every page. We had a good laugh, all weekend! Sorry B. You were funny in 2nd grade. Not very nice, but funny.
Today we are enjoying a quiet day before we face two busy ones tomorrow and Friday. Lex kicked my butt at Life this morning. We had snacks and lunch, then went out to the toy store to buy a present for a birthday party on Friday. Back home we rode bikes and cleaned the mudroom. Inside for snack and more artwork. Lex wrote up a chore chart with assigned dates/times/payments for each. It’s on the fridge. I’ll take a picture of it later. Eve made a beautiful drawing for Molly, who will be visiting us tomorrow. They were working so nicely I busted out the computer to do a not-so-quick blog post. Now they are playing nicely in the living room and I’m ignoring them completely. Life is good. :)