Granny Camp … Fair Time!

  Yes, you’re reading that right.  25 CENTS per ticket.  Now if you’d like to experience $1 per ticket come on down to our Sedgwick County fair…. Hellooooo airplanes…. On come the propellers…  Good thing Darrin is sitting on that side of the ride:-) … No cotton candy in a bag or plastic bucket at this fair.  Yep, that’s the real deal…. Rug burn on the forehead – don’t ask…. Got Cotton Candy? …      I can’t believe that this was my first fair experience in St. Francis.  It’s truly as if I stepped back in time.  Have you ever heard of a county owning all it’s own rides?  25 CENTS per ticket --- I just can’t get over that:-)  The townspeople work in shifts running the rides and games…. no creepy Carnies.  My kids could run and do what they wanted without me being a total wreck as to who was going to steal them.   We will be coming back:-) …Next up… the parade and DEMOLITION DERBY… oh man!

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August 10, 2010

      

:-) …. :-(

I miss my kids:-(  They should be the ones missing me… but I miss them.

I will see all 3 tomorrow:-)

I went to buy Tucker’s school supplies today:-(

I love brand new crayon boxes:-)

I wish I could use them with him:-(

All the painting is done:-)

There are still a gazillion projects that need to be completed in this house:-(

They will have to wait because I will be bringing my kids home from Granny Camp very soon:-)

Granny Camp 2010

Ahhh…. life is good… Summer meant many things to me as a child.  But the number one thing I always remember was getting to go to Grandma and Grandpa Willey’s house for one week long with NO PARENTS.  This was my favorite part of summer. 

This is the first of many summers for my kids to enjoy the same thing.  Tucker and Sawyer have been on the farm since Sunday night.  I will go on Thursday to join them.  They are having the time of their lives… They have called about two times a day which is far less than I was expecting.  They have evidently been giving each other rides on the lawnmower.  This is safe, right?  My mother-in-law would never put my children in harm’s way:-)  I had a city grandma so this farm thing may take a few summers for me to get used to leaving them there without me, but if their phone calls are any clue to how things are going…. they’re going great!  So far they have ridden the lawn mower, caught grasshoppers, and gone swimming. The county fair starts on Wednesday so they really went up on the perfect week.  Their 9 year old cousin Cooper (from KC) is there also and the 3 of them are having the best time together.

Where is Porter?  Well, I thought I would ease Granny B into the Ross children and not throw all 3 of them at her at once.  Porter has been at his own Granny Camp over at Grandma Willey’s house the last few days.  According to the lasted reports, he is now nearly off of this…  My mom is a Wonder Woman!  I know, I know… a 20 month old still on a bottle… blah, blah, blah…. I feel guilty enough about.  He doesn’t need it all the time, just when he’s tired.  Evidently mom is having great success with him.  We’ll see how his mom does when he comes home.  The cabinet is being cleared out tomorrow!  No more ba ba’s!  Lord help me!

As soon as the older 2 left I started in on this…

The living room is now painted, the kids’ hallway is now painted, all the trim is now painted, the living room window panes are now painted, the doors to the kids’ rooms and hallway door are almost painted, and the living room tv cabinet is painted!  God Bless Grandma’s!!!!  My kids are so lucky to not only have one Grandma but two that would leap tall buildings in a single bound for them:-)  And I am so lucky to have these women by my side giving me my sanity back:-)

Just another HOT day….

I’ve been MIA from the blog world for a few weeks.  There’s been plenty of action, I’ve just missed getting the time to post anything.  Between visits from family and a TON of projects that needed completed, I haven’t been in much of a mood to write, take pictures, function.  You see, I lost one very special, dear, significant, admired, LOVED person in my life.  My Grandma Willey traveled home to her forever destination where she joined my grandpa:-)  This was a hard thing for me to go through but I am SO SO blessed to have had her in my life.  Every child needs that one person in his/her life that is always in her corner rooting her on with pom poms in one hand and a batch of homemade peanut butter bars in the other.  She was that for me.  Grandma really deserves her own post on here so I’m not going to go into great depth today. 

Tuck, Sawyer, and Porter:  I want you to know what a precious woman she was.  When I have more time, I will get pictures and stories … and RECIPES (she was a fabulous baker:-) on here so that you may know the great legacy that has been left to you:-)

…. ok… tears all wiped:-) 

TODAY --- and the last few weeks for that matter have been hot, hot, HOT!  I wish I was brave enough to take all 3 to the pool by myself but they are just at a water+age = SCARY stage right now.  And Lord knows my swimming skills are a big, fat, goose-egg, ZERO!  Soooo…. we resort to keeping busy here.

Beading this morning…

I know, weird, right?  My kids LOVE this.  They see me doing it and ALWAYS want to ‘help’.  They honestly do a really great job and it keeps them busy FOREVER!….. loooovvvveeee that:-)  Of course, this only takes place when Porter is down for a nap.:-)  Can you even imagine????

Next was Sonic.  Happy Hour: 2-4 baby!  Where else can you get a frozen treat for $.50????  Their favorites: slushies of course! …

No matter the flavor, they always want 2 real cherries in their cup.  It’s a BIG deal if this step is skipped.  It’s not pretty… just sayin’ :-)…

Oh, and this Sonic fix is ONLY enjoyed OUTSIDE.  This boy is a disaster when it comes to cups with lids and straws.  Water is one thing.  Sticky, syrupy, slushy mess is a whole other story…

He’s SuPeR cute until….  …he starts doing this… … and she joins in on the fun…

Do you see that drip of pure sugar hanging from is elbow?  THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about…

Today was a good day:-)  I love that….