Entries Tagged 'grandparents' ↓

Stripey Pumpkin

Troll named Rocky Baldur

Troll named Furry Ema

Even Ivan is looking at the camera in this one. SCORE!

Troll named Guardian Joe

On the Troll Trail with Grandma Liz

We found the Troll Secret Hideout

Inside the shelter. Liz described the shelter as herringbone patterned.

On the Trolls’ campfire

Playing the trolls’ drum

The trolls have a giant mancala game.

On the trail again

Taffy Apples

Eric and I visited friends in Seattle for two days. The grandparents got the kids to ice skating, soccer, Brownie scouts, karate and also took them out for brunch and over to the children’s museum. Whew! Busy! But of all the activities, Ezri’s favorite thing about her weekend with her grandparents was making tea in the backyard with Grandma Liz.
Ivan liked playing Parcheesi with grandpa.

Grandkids and Grandparents after the seder.

Serious photo

Silly photo

On the plane to Bozeman

Wonder Woman movie viewing with Amanda and Grandpa Mark. We had the whole theater to ourselves. It was great to share the Amazonian heroics.

Bozeman Beach

Ezri made a sand bunny with duck feather ears.

The first rule of vacation was No trips to the E.R. Rule 2 was Have fun. Somewhere much farther down the list we had to add No tossing sand in the air.

At the grandparents’ house

Morning work on the deck. Mark is browsing social media. Ezri is drawing cute versions of farm animals.

Stegosaur hat from Amanda’s youth rides again.

Love this photo of the happiness.

Chico Resort & Hot Springs
Eight is old enough for a trail ride with great views of the mountains. Ezri pointed this out last year when she was a mere 7 and was so thrilled we returned this year so she could ride.
Ezri rode Mike and Amanda rode Rowdy. If you were worried, Rowdy hasn’t been rowdy in years and years.

Clark’s Fork restaurant has bacon, pancakes, and sunflowers.

The kids enjoyed the annual sweet pea festival parade which featured a children’s hockey team handing out popsicles on rollerblade skates and a cadre of therapy ponies and miniature horses. The street cleaner truck spraying water as the grand finale was a fan favorite. Also, it cleaned up some horse poop.

Ezri and Ivan found a tomato shaped like butt in Aunt Pat’s greenhouse.

Grandma Liz made these much loved robes and accompanying small robes for dolls.
She also made Ezri a lovely skirt that she wanted to wear to a birthday party because it would be a good party skirt with fairy type Pokemon on it. But she decided not to wear the skirt because it was also a painting party and she would be sad if the skirt got paint on it.
Smart girl.

Three generations

Learning about Grandma Tam’s looms

Enjoying a stay at Chico Hot Springs

Riding and learning about horses at the Chico Barn. They even let her wear cowgirl boots and pink chaps.

Learning to balance so no hands are required to stay in the saddle