So once we finished that last door, I stepped away from this blog for a bit and moved on to new adventures. Really though, we just love our house! It's comfy and cozy. It's not drafty like what we'd been living with for over 40 years and yay for that. It's the perfect size for us and we both love our offices and our shared spaces and our yard. And our neighborhood. And our church family. So we're pretty sure we picked the right place.
I don't believe I mentioned that we had a blast on the last day of our family reunion turning the backyard into Grandma's Carnival. You know, tickets, prizes, the whole deal. Here are a few highlights.
Complete with nine exciting games like
Sticky Turtle
Tarp Throw
Hammer & Nails
The dads were most competitive as they tried to completely sink their nail with just one blow of the short 6-inch hammers. Fun to watch, especially when they missed the nail completely!
Squirt it! It was a super-hot day and a good one for a little water game.
Putt-Putt Golf - and one grandson actually got a hole-in-one!
And of course that perennial favorite, Fish Pond, which almost every child wanted to play twice. Anyway, you get the idea.
Grandpa's Treat Stand out the back window worked perfectly! For the record, the children LOVED the Pushups, a gadgety little sherbet treat.
Thanks to tons of help from older cousins, aunts, and uncles, every station worked like clockwork. We finished it up with a Swedish Pancake brunch. It was so exciting to me to see that there was plenty of room for everyone and a good time had by all, at least as near as I could tell.
Moving ahead
Here's our friendly turkey-on-the-door for Thanksgiving.
And a spanking new Christmas wreath on the door and lights on the edge of the roof. You might note that Doug spends a lot of time basically vacuuming the lawn to get rid of the leaves. And it's working!
We're just about to bid farewell to the Year 2020: not just the year of COVID-19, but the year we finished up our remodeling and got to sit down and relax for a bit.
