Grandkids For The Week

It's been a nice week with the Grandkids from Idaho. They came down with their Dad late Tuesday night. Then after an afternoon swimming on Wednesday with their Dad, we had a birthday party for Missy, Joey and Jimmy who had birthdays recently. Grandma made each of the kids their own birthday cakes and after singing Happy Birthday everyone got some cake and ice cream.

Missy is 13 now, Jimmy is 2 and loves spaghetti (you can see it on his face) , and Joey is 6 and going to 1st grade in the Fall.

The next day, Thursday, Bill took the kids that wanted to go, to the zoo. They had a great time watching the monkeys and all the other animals. Everything went well except for a little incident Jack had with a crocodile and they all had with a giant spider.

But they managed to survive the attacks and live to tell about it.

Early Friday everybody got dressed up for some nice pictures. Bethany had us all go the the old train depot in Lehi that has been turned into a museum and park. Bethany took some professional pictures while I snuck around with my little digital camera and tried to get some candid pictures.

Here's Grandma with some of her grandkids, Joey, Anna, Matt, Ashey, Joey and Missy. Matt and Joey enjoyed playing together and Bill and Missy had a laugh together.

Then we all worked together on some kites. Grandpa and Jack worked on a diamond kite and Grandma and Ashley created a sled kite made from paper. Jack's kite flew very well, It had a long 20 foot tail made from sting and strips of plactic garbage bag. The sail was also made from a garbage bag. Unfortunately, the wind was so strong that Ashley's paper kite ripped apart and she resorted to a spare kite we brought. Jack's was flying great until he got all tangled up in Joey's kite. After getting them untangled, Joey got his kite up and it wa flying so well it pulled right out of his hand and flew away. The last we saw, it was sailing high above the trees you can see in the background in this picture. Ashley's spare kite decided to chase after Joey's. So, that was the end of that. So then we got out our big Romboid Box kite. But Grandpa crashed it so hard it was completely destroyed. We will have to learn more about flying kites and try that again another time.

Saturday was filled with fishing in the morning, swimming in the afternoon and the movie Race to Witch Mountain in the evening.

Here you can see Jack working on his line. He is an old hand at fishing. He caught the first fish of the day, but decided to let it go. The Joey caught a fish and also decided to let it live another day.

The Murray pool was a great place to hang out and cool off. The water was warm, but the air was starting to get little cool. Missy loved going down the waterslide. Danny had come up from Provo just to see the kids and have some fun with them and the kids all loved playing with him. He took Missy down the slide so many times we lost track and the other kids begged him to give them piggy back rides in the water.

It was a great week with the kids and hope to see them again later this summer.