On Friday, 15 August, I left early for Salt Lake City to Pick up Anna and the kids. We dropped Anna at the airport for a flight (or two) to Washington D.C. She joined Rob for their own mad round of pleasure in the nation's capital and the kids and I headed south to Provo. The boy's morning was spent swimming at Auntie Em's pool while the girls did crafts. That afternoon I walked with Lucy, Tucker, and Anders to the Bean Museum for a look at some very dead stuffed animals. We were just in time for the reptile show, which was pretty fun. That evening Janet provided Chinese take-away for dinner, which was followed by a walk to the park for some playground fun. Keeping with the Chinese theme, we killed off the evening with the Olympics and Grammy's warm peanut butter cookies and milk.
Saturday morning I made pancakes for breakfast (those kids LOVE pancakes). Lucy went grocery shopping with me and the boys watched Muppets From Space. After lunch we returned to the pool for some Olympic-inspired swimming at Em's. We made crunchy tacos for supper and then the three older kids went to the Demolition Derby in Spanish Fork with Auntie Katy.
Sunday was church followed by Sunday dinner. Todd and Courtney joined us and then, after one more Muppet classic (while Clara napped -- baba night night), we made the trade off, and those fun kids headed back to Taylorsville.
Anna, off to D.C.
Anders, Clara, and Lucy checking in
Tucker and Anders being Michael Phelps
Paying homage to their mom's freshman yearon the way to the museum (their dad's dorm is gone)
Choosing a favorite animal on the museum door
Up close and personal with the python at the reptile show
Chinese take away
Rock climbing at the park
Okay, obviously posed
A spectacularly beautiful evening
Pop Pop making "sockdolagers"
Lucy managed the shopping list and unloaded the cart at Costco
More pool time at Em's
Demolition Derby in Spanish Fork
Lots of good Muppet movies and Olympics watchingIt was a great weekend. Thanks for coming and come again soon.
OXO
Grammy and Pop Pop
8 comments:
How in the world did we get such cute grandkids?! Great pix. Wish we were close enough to take a turn for a weekend. "Take away" - an English term?
Thanks for taking such good care of my babies. They've had a great time, and consequently, so have we!
"Take away" is a British term, but it pops unnoticed into my head with great stealth.
Looks like a great time was had by all! We miss all of you like crazy!
Thanks for a delicious dinner and a wonderful introduction (although I did sleep through most of it...) to the Muppets.
Looks wonderful! I got to head to DC yesterday to spend time with Anna in the National Gallery. We couldn't help but talk about our first introduction to DC and the Nat. Gal. with you all those years ago. Thanks again!
Grammy and Pop Pop look like a lot of fun to stay with. Actually speaking from experience they are...except we never went the the MLB museum.
I bet you had almost as much fun as your grandkids did!
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