Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Our Latest Mini Vacation

We went to Grandmama and Papa's house in Missouri on July Third through the Fifth to help them get some work done in their yard and around their house.
Fun, Fun!
My first long trip in our new van... I had/got to sit in the back. : l


Luckily when I posed for this shot, nobody was around to pull the handles together. Ha! : )


Happy boy! (sorry...man. ; )


If this shot had been taken sideways, it would have looked like spiderman... (that's Samuel by the way)


I was looking for the trailer eject button in this shot. ; )



I was a little shaken up after the rough ride Sam gave us.


What would I have done without my dear friend Mr. Pepper...he is so refreshing after a bit of hard work.


Yes...Rocks! We had to dig up about three truck loads of them from an old flower garden and dump them somewhere else.

After we cut out all the brush from the forest, we burned it all. We had about five brush piles to burn.
These next two pictures show the woods before we touched it, then after the work was finished.
before

after : )



We visited "Precious Moments" on Monday before coming home.
one of the hundreds of statues in the park

this is a castle play house that Sam Butcher (the designer of Precious Moments) built just for his grandchildren. We could only see it from afar.



Mom wanted my picture taken at Precious Moments, so I posed at the first beautiful spot I could find. (in the gift shop) ; )




We didn't buy any fireworks this year since we were working all weekend, but we did go to the firework show in Carthage, Missouri. It was about thirty minutes long, and REALLY cool.

4 comments:

  1. VERY FUNNY! (trailer eject button? where'd you come up with that?) The firework pic is WOWWY!!!!!!

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  2. I LOVE the trailer eject button picture! the caption goes perfect with it!! I was just cracking up!
    Sorry. : )
    And by the way, it is DR. Pepper. He's a Dr. because it is his job to 'refresh' his patients! : ) Good to see you back!
    Anna

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  3. By the way, I love your 'best photo'!!!! It is SO awesome!!!!
    Anna

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  4. I knew you would like that one, Anna, because of the "fog". I thought of you 'right' when I snapped the picture. :)
    I'm going to post again soon with all the little 'nothing' shots I got while I was there, so you can decide between the best photo of the July or some cool fire shots. (Ha, that sounds funny-cool fire. :)
    Just so you know, Daniel even commented that my fire shots were pretty good. :) Rare...

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