G&G Summer Camp Part 3 - The Man Cave

One of Jacob's goals for our visit to G&G's this year was to spend some time in The Man Cave with Grandpa, building something.  They settled on a boat, with Jacob as designer and Grandpa figuring out how to make it happen.  They were quite the pair.

Austin liked hanging out and watching, but wasn't much interested in anything else.

After building came painting...

...and the finished product!

G&G Summer Camp Part 2 - Bingo!

Back by popular demand this summer - Bingo! with G&G.  Grandma started it with the kids last summer on our visit and they brought it back for this visit by special request from the kids, who loved it.  They each get a personalized Bingo sheet, each square holds some sort of activity for them to accomplish during the visit.  Walking with Grandpa, picking up sticks in Mike's yard, calling Dad, and making a craft are just some of the items on the list.

This year's Bingo had a twist.  G&G had hidden a special "capsule" for each grand kid somewhere in the yard, a little Geocaching if you will.  For every 5 stars the kids got on their Bingo cards, they received a clue as to the whereabouts of their Geocache.  The kids were hooked!  2 of the 3 got a clue at bedtime one night and insisted Grandpa give them the clue so they could go out right then and look for their prize.  Miss Leah's was hidden deep in the old fig tree in the back yard.

One of the kids activities was to pick up sticks in Mike's yard, for which he handsomely rewarded them  Some worked a little harder than others...

Some people supervised...

Some people spent their time playing with the traffic reflector...

Mike is an original.  How many people do you know who have skulls on their meter boxes?

Break time!

G&G Summer Camp Part 1 - And A Good Time Was Had By All

We spent the better part of last week at Grandma and Grandpa's for summer camp.  True to form, they had put a ton of thought and planning into our visit and and had a full schedule of fun on the agenda.  In between the outings, Bingo, Children's Festival and Geo-caching, there was a lot of wrestling, game playing, the traditional water fight,  and general merriment.

 G&G introduced us to a fun new dice game, which for the life of me, the name has escaped me.  But it was fun!  And addicting.  

 And even though it was summer camp, some people still got sent to time out.

 Every year on July 11 (7/11) there are free Slurpees all day at every 7-11.  You can bet these Slurpee lovin' kids hit them up.  Twice.

4th of July

There was hair braiding and fingernail painting

 a lot of kids running around (13 to be exact)

 an appearance from a long lost stranger

 and more kids.....

Splash Pad 1.0

One of our summer bucket list items is to hit every splash pad in the surrounding area.  Our first one, ironically enough is the closest one to our house, yet we've never been there in 2 and 1/2 years.  We stopped by last weekend, and although it's not large, it's water and the kids had a ball.

My oh-so-classy daughter... "Look Mom, I'm peeing!"

and not to be outdone by his sister.....

Soaked to the skin and happy!