Oh Happy Day!

After such a long time, we finally had our girls overnight this past weekend!  We had so many fun things to do, so be warned - there are lots of pictures!

I had a vacation day on Friday, so I had been doing some shopping and picked them up at their house a little earlier than usual.

 I picked up new sunglasses for them and told them to make funny faces for this photo.

 I had also picked up these little walkie talkies so they had fun with them when we got back to our house.  They both had trouble remembering to push the button to talk, and not putting their mouths right on it, but they didn't care!



Bob had to work late that evening and didn't get home till shortly after 6:30.

It was a great reunion!

 After Bob had supper we went out to the yard to play.

 Alaina loves to hang upside down.

Ruby wante to give Grandpa a ride in the wagon.  It wasn't long before he was pulling both of them.

When we came inside we went downstairs to work on this. I had ordered this several months ago and they've been waiting to play with it.  It's a whole bunch of heavy cardboard squares, printed to look like wood.  Some have holes cut into them for windows, but they all have little holes along the side that you can use Velcro straps to hook them together.  You can build forts of all types.  This is only about 2/3 of the squares so our fort is probably going to get bigger.

 Then we had ice cream, watched Wallace and Grommit and went to bed a little after 10.



They were up on time in the morning and had breakfast with Grandpa.  They love it when he's home, and they think having a glass of orange juice with him is so fun!   They wanted donut holes for breakfast - not the usual breakfast for any of us, but I guess it's ok occasionally!

We had an enclosed wooden bench in the garage that was starting to fall apart, and they had fun helping him dismantle it and take care of the pieces.

 Then they decided to have a parade in our driveway.  I love how they piled everything they could onto the wagon to pull it.  The chair didn't last long up there.

 Grandpa took them to the shop to work on a project.  He cut 4 blocks, they sanded them and then put a rope through them and tied it up.

Then they got to walk on them, like stilts.  Alaina was really good, could even go up steps with them.  Ruby had a harder time balancing, but they thought they were pretty cool, especially since they helped make them.

 Grandpa hooked the little wagon up behind the mower and took them for a ride.  They always like that!



It was time for lunch.  Grilled cheese was on the menu!

After lunch, I painted their nails.  I bought this polish a while ago for them, because the color is called unicorn.  It's shimmery purple and blue and they think it's the best!

 After lunch we made homemade lava lamps.  I'll share how to do that in another post, but it was easy and fun.

 I had two nieces graduate from high school this year, and one of them had a graduation party in the afternoon.  We went to that and found Great Grandpa and Great Grandma there!

When we got home they were playing outside and were so happy to meet the neighbor girls little chick.

Shortly after that Laura and Aaron came to pick them up.  We had such a good time together. I will admit that we really didn't get anything else done after they left.  We were tired!