Wordless Wednesday

 

Fun with the girls

This is a catch up post!  Before I took my little break for Terri's visit, we had the girls over and I want to share the fun we had.

I needed new pictures of them, so I had them pose in their yard for a few shots.

We went out for ice cream!

So good!

I read a tip about making people skip while taking their picture to get fun action shots, and this was the result.  :)

When it started to get dark, we sat out on the deck and watched fireflies and Ruby even caught some!

The next morning, we made some Magic Water critters.

They had fun picking colors to make them and they turned out cute.

Bob hooked up the old Nintendo that our kids used to play with and we played a few games.

Then we set up tables downstairs and the girls painted beach towels.

They took packing tape and electrical tape and made designs on the towel.  Then they used spray tie dye paint and painted around the tape. When the paint dried, we pulled the tape off and ironed it to heat set it.

Ruby did stripes with summer fruit; pineapples and watermelon and a few R's.

Alaina did stripes, a giant A, waves and The Rookie.

They had lots of fun and were happy with their towels.

Meeting Terri!

I'm back from my little break!  I had a wonderful time with blog friend Terri from Your Friend from Florida. Terri flew in to Grand Rapids on Monday morning and left on Thursday afternoon. I can tell all of you that know her through the blogging world that she's just as sweet in person as she is on her blog.  Here's a few of the things we did while she was here in Michigan.

We went to Laura and Aaron's house so she could meet Alaina and Ruby.

We went to Grand Haven to see Lake Michigan and the lighthouse.

We went to Meijer Gardens and Sculpture park and checked out some of the Gardens and took a tram ride to see a lot of the Sculptures.

One of the most famous sculptures there, is this DaVinci horse, made from drawings done by DaVinci.  There is one here in Grand Rapids and another duplicate in Italy.

We went to Heather and Andrews house to meet Cassie and Connor!

We went to Windmill Island in Holland

You feel like you are walking into a town in the Netherlands.

It's the home of DeZwaan Windmill; the last windmill that the Netherlands allowed to leave the Netherlands.  It's now 250 years old, it came to Holland in 1964 and it's still working. 

One last shot of Terri in the Windmill Island Gardens

After Windmill Island, we went into the City of Holland to see this display honoring The Wizard of Oz.  The author, Frank Baum had a cottage here and his family said much of the story was written in Holland.

There were also sculptures of characters from The Wizard of Oz, including Dorothy and Toto

and of course, the Wicked Witch!

We did a little shopping in Holland too.

We had several days of fun and also relaxation and talking.  What a wonderful time together and such a joy to meet another blogging friend!