Fun Filled Weekend

Warning: long post with lots of pictures

Last Friday, after Roger's kindergarten physical,  Mike and I picked up Roger and Luke for a long weekend visit.
Daddy had told them that I used to take him to a park with a BIG rocket ship slide when he was little. We get into the car and that's all they wanted to talk about. Well, except for "Are we getting off the highway now?" and Are we there yet?"
"Can we got to the rocket slide park?"
 This is now the rocket slide park. Big disappointment. I kept telling them it got old and was gone, but they had to see it.

Those of you familiar - that's wing park now. 

So we took them to the McDonald's with the slide inside and had lunch and they played there.

After seeing and playing with all of Papa's new legos for an hour it was time to go in the forest. 

Luke: "The lions are all sleeping now, right?" He's convinced our woods have lions.

They climbed over trees, hiked in the woods, threw rocks and stick in the pond.

I look at my phone and see it's only 1:15 - felt like 4:30.

Then I had a brilliant idea. I went to the basement and dragged out one of Bryan's old toy box. We have 5.

I found the one with a bunch of trucks (including Grandpa Flory's old Tonkas), Rambo's village, and the best things of all his Mask toys. I'm saving the Simpson toys and the GI Joes for when they get a little older. 

They play so good together

That kept them busy. Whew...

A little legos before bed and the first day is over.

Saturday we surprised them with the kids workshop at the Home Depot.

The boys LOVED it. They built skate board pencil holders.

Before they even open their projects they were having fun. "We get to sit on buckets!"

Painting the tops

Mike guided Luke and to no ones surprise Roger needed no help. He looked at the instructions - I told him it was just like legos only with wood and he put it together all by himself. 

He did ask me to put his glue on. "It's glue for grown ups."  Ok, couldn't argue with him on that one.

They give them aprons and when they are done they get a certificate and a pin to put on it to show everybody what they made. Couldn't help but think of Mike's old boy scout vest hanging in the basement with his badges all over it.

getting their reward

Last night at bedtime it was difficult for the boys to find a book they liked. It appears that we needed fresh books. We head on over to our little library to replenish our supply. In our defense I gave all of Bryan's books to them along with his bookcase.

 Boys each picked out 2 books and then headed on over to the toys. Mike and I found about 15 more - That should hold us. 

We promised them a park with bigger slides so from the library we head on up to Randall Oaks.

Luke: "Now were talking."

Big enough for Mike to join them

They both picked out hats from Papa's collection to wear.

Break time

 Every Mother has that one fear.
Mine, when Bryan was little, was him choking on something.
Mary shared with me that hers was them getting hit by a car in a parking lot.
Walking back to the car (the park is down a trail in the woods) of course the boys run ahead of us. We catch up to them and this is what we see. Mary has to be so proud. They just sat down in the shade and waited for us.

We had to stop at the $ store for supplies. We were having a surprise belated birthday party for Bryan when they came to pick the boys up on Sunday afternoon. Imagine a 3 yr old and a 5 yr old in a $ store. Yeah, what was I thinking.

Roger and I made signs for the yard. Luke didn't want to help - He wanted to play with the balloons. 

The story goes - Pokemon had invaded our house and stole all of Daddy's presents. He left a note in our mail box of the area of where they were and Daddy had to go find them. That wasn't oo hard - the boys were more than happy to help him. Me and the boys hid them.

Luke had chosen to throw his in the little tree out front.

Roger put his on top of Papa's truck. 

We hid 2 in the backyard and the last Pokemon was wrapped around the cupcakes in the cupboard in the kitchen. Owen was happy to see that one.

Finally - Roger's numerous questions got answered. 

I saved all the parts to all the toys, but had no idea what went with what. "Wait and ask Daddy." was our go to answer.

Daddy showed him how all the toys went together.

Who do you think is having more fun?