Our past 3 days with Chad, Corey,and Harrison were packed with activites as well as some downes time too. The only pictures I think I did not capture was eating meals (I don't multi task well during meals with grandkids...hmmmmm), playing Uno cards on the porch and going to see Space Chimps (we thought it was a pretty good movie for kids). Summertime is just a wonderful time to do things with grandchildren. I love having a neighborhood pool to take them :) swimming and living in a college town also provides for some extras too. We also love having Benjamin live close to us and the boys liked having him join us for some of our activities. Having horses live around the corner is a real bonus for us too.
One afternoon we had a Tiger Statue Scavenger Hunt! There are plenty here in town (we found 9 on our hunt) and I made up some clues to make it a little interesting for the guys. I am pretty sure they would tell you that the last clue was their favorite when I blindfolded them to that destination. Then again, they might tell you the fire station visit was the best since they were given the royal treatment by a fireman. Corey is a huge AU fan so sitting on an orange and blue firetruck was a sweet treat for him!
Chad never played his x-box games while here which is rare for him and we were so pleased to watch him enjoy building with the lincoln logs and look through photo books we had on hand. Those lincoln logs have to be the favorite in our house with the older grandchildren.
All 3 boys loved watching Facing The Giants football movie I got from our church library. We highly recommend it if you are looking for something inspiring and wholesome to watch.
Pops favorite time with the guys was playing basketball around the corner at our local elementary school and (since he loves reading) having Harrison curl up in his lap at bedtime with the library book Harrison picked out while on our scavenger hunt(there is a tiger statue in our library as well as a tiger fish tank and lots of books about Tigers). Each boy picked out a book which was not on the orignal plan during the hunt but when I saw their interest in it, the extra 30 minutes there was time well spent. (you teachers and librarians are smiling at me about that :),huh!) Chad naturally picked one about Auburn and Alabama football, Corey naturally about Baseball, and Harrison naturally about Race Cars! What fun we had with 3 different ages & 3 different personalities! But they all had the same interests this weekend = FUN times with Lolli and Pops!
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