Home Away From Home

We just moved back home this past weekend after living with Nonnie and Pops for about two weeks.  I am happy to report our house is almost finished with repairs from our air conditioner leak and other updates we decided to tackle while it was already a mess.

 Nonnie and Pops have a new sea saw in the pool.

 The girls got "glamicures" our first day there.

 We stayed busy with our regular swim lessons, shows at the library and church functions.

 This was a ventriloquist at the library.  She was amazing!  The girls laughed until their faces were red.

 A group of youth at our church performed Annie one night.  It was fun for Nonnie and me to see siblings of kids we taught.  We had an afternoon movie session and watched the old movie Annie before going to the musical.

 

While Abby was at a Farewell to Preschool swim party one day, Nonnie and Pops took Caroline for yogurt.

Ready for football season and the park.

We stayed at Little Bubba's one night and rode around in the truck looking for bunnies.  His neighborhood is covered with them.

 We also hit the playground.

 Our church has had "Sunday Fun Days"  all summer. Last week, we stayed after church for pizza and Bingo.

 

 The girls both won a few times and had fun with their prizes.

 One day, we went shoe shopping.  The girls needed new tennis shoes for school.

Abby had fun with this marionette in Whole Earth.

 We stopped in Starbucks for a treat.

 The weather has been amazing this summer.  We have had several weeks with temps in the 80's.  One day, we took advantage and ate lunch outside at Sonic.

We spent a morning at our house while the carpet was being installed.  The girls made snow angels in it.

 Last week, I took them to Chuck E. Cheese to use leftover tokens from a birthday party.

 They really got into the tickets and won 164! They had a little help.

 We thought this was a lot of tickets, but Chuck E. Cheese really makes you earn the big prizes.  They had saved some for a year and were tired of saving so we ended up with two tops, stickers and Smarties.

 Little House on the Prairie has provided so many story lines for pretend play.There is an episode where Laura finds Fools Gold in the creek.  Pops got into this one and hid gold in the tub of sand.  The girls had no idea and were super excited when they started playing in it one day and found gold.

 

   Dancing with Nonnie

The girls earned a kids meal at Café Express through the library.  It is a new favorite place. While we are glad to get back to normal, we enjoyed our two weeks of special outings and staying at our home away from home.