hard at work

Saturday afternoon i looked out the back window and saw this....

Dad's helpers

Saturday Brooke got a stand at Lowes that needed to be assembled.  He had 2 volunteers that were more than ready to help him put it together.

Brooke would ask them for the number of bolts, washers and nuts that he needed, then Grace would hand them to Jake and Jake would pass them on to Brooke.  Grace started getting creative and would put them down her shirt and Jakes shirt.  It is a miracle we didn't loose any parts!

This was good training for the next time we get something at IKEA!

weekend update

This last weekend was a fun one for us.  Sunday was Brooke's birthday, but since we weren't going to be home, we had cake on Friday night....

Saturday morning, we headed out to Roswell to do some camping for the rest of the weekend.  When we got there and got our campsite, we headed to the local McDonalds.  It was Alien themed!  The kids had fun playing there.  When we got back to our campsite, we got our Kayaks out and went out on the lake.

Grace decided to practice getting george buckled in her seat.

The next day was Brooke's birthday and we had a great day exploring the town.  The kids LOVED spotting all the aliens that were in front of different stores and shops.  We hit the local Alien museum and a few gift shops.  There was some sort of festival going on in front of the court house, so we got lunch there and relaxed for a bit.  The kids saw the big inflatable slide and were begging to go on it.

They both had a fun going down it as many times as they could in the 3 minute time limit. 

Then we had to take pictures with some aliens to make the trip complete.  These were their favorites...

Jake spotted this and struck a pose

Then Gracie had to do the same thing.

It was a great weekend!