Hi! I last posted Friday. Well, after picking the kids up from school, we headed home and looked over their school work. Chris got home shortly after that and then we had supper. It was around 7:45, that the doorbell rang. I knew, but the kids did not, who was on the other side.
Nathan opened the door, and seeing nothing, said, "There is nobody out there.". He looked again with Hannah and saw my parents. It took a couple of seconds to register who it was before he and Hannah shouted, "Grandma, Papa!!!!" It was a fun surprize. Mom and Dad got a kick out of it too. Nathan started talking about 100 miles an hour. He told me tonight, "You know mom, they don't ever do that. I am really glad they came and surprized me. I hope they do it every year. " We will see. I finally got them to bed around 9.
Nathan was up at 6:30 the next morning, saying, "Today is my party!!" We ate some blueberry bread I had made for breakfast and read our morning devotion with Grandma. We were talking about God's mercy and how we should be merciful. Nathan out of the blue says to mom, "You know what Grandma. God made everyone...... washable." We laughed for a while about that. The things we take for granted, right.
After the guys got up, we collected all the party stuff and headed to the park. When we got there, the shelter house was taken, so we moved up the hill. The wind was terrible. Probably gusts of 35 miles an hour. We attempted to hang streamers. I had made doggy ears out of rubber headbands and felt cut into ear shapes. The kids put those on and chased around the ball I had brought for one of the games. About 5 till, guest started arriving. He had 3 kids from his kindergarten class and 1 from t-ball. Tyler, Will, Samantha, Lane, and then their little siblings and Hannah. They started off by running around in their dog ears. As Chris got the pizza, I had them play our Dog game. I had hidden a cat, a truck and a ball in the yard. Taped to each of them was a small sentence they could read. Like "find the cat". then, while wearing their dog ears, they looked in the yard. They prize at the end was a pile of dog bones (which were actually cut out of paper and stuffed with fruit snacks). They liked the game so much they decided to do it again, this time hiding the bones and having all the moms find the clues. I started to help in the hunt when a gust of wind blew everything off the table. A frantic rush to catch things came. The kids found the rest of the things they had hidden and came back to the table just in time to eat pizza. After pizza was cake and then presents. Nathan got some neat stuff and was really excited to just have kids to play with. WE headed to the play ground before everyone headed home.
We took all the goodies and leftovers back to the house and then headed to the southside festival. A friend of Chris' from Lowes has his ponies there and had promised free rides. WE got there and sure enough, Charlie was leading the little ones. So both Hannah and Nathan got to ride twice. They gave Charlie big hugs and then we went on. The kids got to choose one ride. Nathan rode the ferris wheel for kids and Hannah rode in the pink train car. We finished walking around when we bumped into Gretchen, who is the kids favorite person in the whole world, at least in St. Joe, you know. She was out looking for onion blossoms. We visited with her for a while before heading home. WE then decided it would be fun to go mini golfing. So Mom and DAd took us out to Arbys and then we went to Coolcrest. It was a lot of fun. Nathan won a free game. We went home and headed to bed.
This morning was church and after that, we took mom and dad by Nathan's school and hit walmart for some necessities for the morning, like milk. I ignored laundry and grocery shopping because of the party and stuff on Saturday. That is on my agenda for tomorrow. I dont' have to watch Abram this week , because Amy's sister is back from 8 weeks of being in Omaha, and she really wants some time with her family, so she asked Amy if she could have Abram all week.
Anyways, before mom and dad left, the kid had them play a game or two of Pit before they headed to bed.
It was a lot of fun. If I can get this think to post my pictures, I will.
I have been trying and it keeps telling me that I don't have a server. Oh, well.
I hope this finds you all well and I added our friends to the side bar, so check out their links as well. My brother in Oregon is one, our friends who welcomed us to St. joe are there, my cousin and her husband are there, and some long lost friends are there.
Until next time, may God be reaching to you and showing you His unfailing love!
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