For the Week—Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Our Craig, Colorado kids all went home…without two of the grandchildren 🙂   Blade wanted to stay with Aunt Shannon (part-time) and with his cousin on his Dad’s side some/most of the time.  Blade and Zack are very close cousins and friends so spending time with each other is very special to both of them.  Blade will also spend time with us…at 13 you just have so much you want to do, with so little time to do it.

UpTally is staying with us.  I will call a little friend she liked to play with sometime today and arrange a play date, but mostly it will be Tally, Grandpa and I.  We will got see Aunt Shannon and Jason and the dogs and cats, but that will be just to visit.

SwingLinkin and her best friend will be spending the whole week at Craig, no brother or sister to interrupt their very serious best-friend-forever time.  Then next weekend we will switch and Linkin will spend the week with us. (I’m sure Elly will be here and Linkin will be at her house off and on.)

RoundOn our way to get some guinea pig food (Blade’s pig is staying with us also 🙂 ) Grandpa and Tally wanted to play at one of the parks on the way home.    There was a little girl already playing there, which added to the fun.  (Who do you think had the most fun?

1 Tally ?

2. New Friend ?

3 Grandpa ?

If you guess Grandpa…YOU WIN!!!  Just look at that smiles— they say it all.

I’m so far behind on commenting, but please know that I am reading them. I am also reading your blogs.  I am also a tad stretched at the moment, but I hope to get into a routine soon.

Your friend,

Linda

Hand Prints in the Cement

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We are moving right along on the barn

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In-between harvesting the corn and hauling hay-

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And the bad weather

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(Blade……Linkin….Tallen…2009)

We have the foundation in place!

The storm is leaving so DH is back in the corn field!  We didn’t have rain! 

YEAH!

Bladen Fox McCormick

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Blade is such a hardy little fellow. And so completely up for any challenge.  He finished the soccer season

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And is now trying to learn how to set tubes, he can do the gated pipe as long as we are there if something doesn’t work just right.

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 His little 7 year-old hand is just not quite large enough to cover the end, but after many tries he got the aluminum tube,

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And then the really, really hard ‘white’ tube.

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Blade’s tube set!

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Fuzzy thinks he is lots of help, but I wonder.

Bladen and Tallin

Bladen is a very good big brother, he plays with Tallin a lot, and she loves it!

Blade and Linkin

Blade and Linkin enjoyed the mud also.