We are the dinosaurs!

At the bottom of my webpage you will find the video of one of my favorite songs to sing with the kids ("great", that is :) We only sing the chorus. Enjoy!

FingerPlay for Grandkids

I use to play this with Joshi, Linny, and Holly when they were small. I just ran into it in some lost files last week. Here it is:

This is our world (form big circle with arms like holding ball)
Our big, big world
And this is a mountain high (make mt.peek touching finger tips together, elbows apart, like inverted "V")
This is a tree (put one hand parallel to ground up high and other hand parallel down low)
A tall, tall tree
And these are the birds that fly (lock thumbs together and flap fingers like wings)
This is our sun (form big circle with arms like holding ball)
The bright, bright sun
That shines and keeps us warm (hug self like warm and cozy)
This is our world (form big circle with arms like holding ball)
Our big, big world
And God has made it all! (point up)

Remember doing that?! :)

Carve a Punkin

This is an awesome Harvest Time URL: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html

Have fun!

Mystery Solved

While taking that hike through the Georgia woods, Holly nearly walked into a spider that was suspended across the path...! Yuck!

I did some research on the internet and found that it was probably a Golden Sil Orb Weaver.

Which is a harmless spider, just very big!

Trip to Georgia

Greg and I just got back from our trip to see Holly and Tim in Warner Robins yesterday evening and flew into SeaTac amid the tailings of a violent wind storm. The whole trip across the US was blustery but the landing in Seattle was the bumpiest landing we have ever experienced. People aboard our 767 were gasping and laughing nervously alternately as the pilots fumbled our way to the ground...



Tim and Holly picked us up at the very huge and the busiest airport in the United States, Atlanta. From there we went to the Atlanta Aquarium which was spectacular. Here Holly, Tim, and I are standing infront of a tank, not a mural!












We stopped at a cafe in the aquarium to have dinner.















Here we were at a well stocked and arranged petting tank where there were lots of manta rays and hammer head sharks within reach. Greg, however, was the only one able to actually pet a shark. The rays really did seem like they enjoyed being petted so we stroked their backs for quite a while...

Sitting with Holly and Tim in their home was heaven. It was sunny and warm (~80'sF) all week.

After Tim got off work one evening we went to Lake Tobesofkee in Macon for a BBQ. The sand there was the classical red of Georgia.














The home across the lake is rumored to be Jeff Foxworthy's.













We had a perfectly gorgeous sunset during dinner. Enthralled by the view we forgot the fact that our car was parked on the other side of the woods thru which we had to walk... in the dark... praying we wouldn't run into and Southern-type creatures along the way!











Greg and my goal was to eat as much Southern cousine as possible! Holly talked me through making She-Crab Soup and Hush Puppies one night and it was delicious...













Rain's best smile :)

We took a hike through the Georgia woods. Tim and Holly had once spied an armadillo in these woods last time they were here...

...but all we saw on this hike was this spider suspended across the trail. Holly nearly wore it on her shoulder! Look down at your palm... That's how big this spider was :<

Eat your heart out, Bruce! This is an amazing store is a Southern legend . You may have seen it on the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" video. I bought a pair of shoes for work here :)

The last evening we were there was Rain's obedience class. She did VERY well.

One afternoon Holly and I got to talking and decided to do some female bonding and go have nail extensions put on!

There are more pics that I'll be sending out later on Shutterfly. But this gives you a feel for how our visit with Tim and Holly went.

And Thank you, Tim and Hol, for the wonderful Southern hospitality. You have a wonderful home and live in a beautiful place!

PS. I'm jealous of your flowering hibiscus and am missing our stops at the Waffle House.