Ahh, Grandkids, is there anything better?!

Here are some recent photos of cousin fun at my house:

Storm and Thunder cuddling

Thunder "sharing" his cars with Storm

Gigi getting some smiles from Storm while Sunny supervises

Papa and Thunder

Papa steals a kiss

Sunny and Storm

They just love to hold Storm

Awww

Yesterday we made binoculars so they could "investigate"

Gramps, Thunder, Sunny

Three

Today is Thunder's third birthday. His party was this past Saturday. Thunder is totally enthralled with trash trucks. On Wednesdays when our trash is picked up, we run out when the trash truck picks up our recycle can, we run out when it picks up the recycles across the street, we run out when it picks up our garbage, we run out when it picks up the garbage across the street. The drivers are great guys and they always wave back at us. More often than not they also toot the loud trash truck horn. He turns every truck at my house into a trash truck.

He's also completely into horses and anything horse related. When I have an empty gift wrap tube, he turns it into a horse and gallops around the house on it. When we go to the library, he always wants to check out a book on horses.

He loves puzzles, books, playing outside, cars, trucks, and "Sheriff Callie's Wild West" on Disney. He's a sweet, thoughtful, loving little boy. I love him so!

A cowboy hat!

Turbo DVD

Tool box

Cowboy boots!

Sunny, Thunder, Storm, Skye

Showing Uncle Mark how the trash truck works

Aunt Kelly and Storm

Uncle Mark giving Skye some golf pointers

Gigi and Papa

A Finish!

Last year I stitched this pattern to give to my mom at Christmas. Unfortunately, the move interfered and my Christmas plan flopped.

I wanted to make this into a box and fill it with gift cards for my folks.

Fast forward to July 2014. My parents 60th wedding anniversary was yesterday. They did not want a party or large celebration this year, so we all decided to gift them with gift cards to their favorite restaurants, eateries, and grocery stores. Yea! My box was revived.

I found this box at Goodwill. It was missing a drawer pull, so I bought a bead at Michael's and made my own. It is filled with gift cards and will be presented to them today in honor of their 60 year commitment to each other and this family.

Family

Sunny and Thunder spent the weekend with us over the 4th of July. We watched a fireworks show on Friday night, had donuts for breakfast on Saturday morning, and had some special guests on Saturday afternoon. We had invited my folks over for dinner and swimming on Saturday, and Zach and Skye were able to come also. It is so much fun for me to watch the cousins together! I was having so much fun that I only took two photos...

Thunder, Sunny, Skye 

Huggin' Cousins

Duke was so exhausted on Sunday, he grabbed a nap in the guest room

Yesterday when the kids were over, I was rocking Sunny in the rocking chair and she told me that when she's 10, she'll be too big for me to hold. I told her that Grammy's can always hold their grandchildren - no matter how big they get. She was very skeptical, but accepted that. Then I told her that Mommy's can always hold their kids no matter how big they get. She did not believe that at all. But I told her it's true and that I can still hold each one of my kids (including her mommy) on my lap.

When Katie arrived to pick them up, Sunny told her what I said and then added that she wanted to see Mommy sit on my lap. Off we headed to the family room where Katie plopped down in my lap. For extra measure, Sunny and Thunder piled on too, so I had Dan take a picture. Now Sunny believes... however I do think that the next time Tio JD and Tio Zach come over, she's gonna want them to sit on my lap too! 

Thunder on Sunny

Sunny on Katie

Katie on me!

Storm: Official One Month Photo

When Sunny was born in 2009, I decided that I wanted to get a photo each month around their date of birth - just the baby and me. I have kept that tradition up with each grandchild and now it's Storm's turn. Jess and Adam dropped him off yesterday for an hour or so while they went house hunting. Not only was it time for our official photo, it was his first time alone at Grammy & Gramps' house!

Too excited to nap - first time alone at Grammy's!

Our official one month photo

Cuddle time with Gramps

Thunder did a great job of burping Storm

Happy 4th!

Welcome to Christmas in July!

Over on my Christmas blog I'm celebrating my Third Annual Christmas in July. Each day will include a post about a Christmas related subject. If you're in the mood for a mid-summer dose of the Christmas Spirit, come on over and check it out!