Scattered Thoughts . . .

W hile Lukey and Kenzie were staying with us for a few days (mom was in the hospital giving birth to Sophia), we spent some time in the backyard.  We had a fire in the firepit, nice Adirondack chairs, a putting green, and the new homemade Giant Jenga game.  Later in the evening, I made some Shish-Ka-Bob on the grill in the outdoor kitchen, we had S'mores and we played a few games of Dominoes.   We had a good time playing quite a few games of Giant Jenga!   I shot video as well as photos but I'll put together a video soon for another blog entry.  Hmmm...  maybe I'll put together a video of all the things we did in the backyard on this evening.   For now, here are some photos of Giant Jenga with Gee, Lukey, Kenzie and Pop... We had a really nice time on this afternoon and night!   We're looking forward to the next time some or all of the grandchildren are at the house.  It is always fun to play!

Ever since Lukey and Kenzie were infants, we've always made sure we have the correct size life preservers for them.  We've been kayaking with them since they were born so we made sure they had appropriate life preservers to wear.  They also needed them while at the lake house for playing in the water.  So, we started with infant life preservers, then to small toddler life preservers, then to larger toddler life preservers, and then to child life preservers.  Now it was time for them to get new life preservers again in the next size up.   We were at Dick's looking for running shoes the other day for Kenzie and sneakers for Lukey but, while wandering around the store, we came across these O'Brien life preservers on a Buy-One, Get-One-Free sale so we took advantage of the sale and purchased two new adult-sized life preservers for them.   Lukey and Kenzie tried on the much more comfortable O'Brien vests to ensure they fit and then we headed on to the shoe department to

L iza and John gave birth to another child the other day and they are now home from the hospital. Lukey and Kenzie stayed with us while Liza was in the hospital and we had a great time with them, as always.  I believe they are still enjoying their time with us too which is a good thing!  I'll be writing more about our very busy days and nights spent with Lukey and Kenzie in other blog entries soon.   In the meantime, this blog entry is about bringing Lukey and Kenzie home yesterday so we all could meet their newest sibling, two-day-old Sophia...   In this photo, below, we are on our way to meet Sophia.  Lukey and Kenzie were unusually quiet on this ride.  I'm not sure if they were just exhausted from everything we did while they visited with us (I know I was!) or their minds were simply on the baby and getting home... Ace was very happy to see us and, naturally, he was looking for attention since he is no longer the baby of the family and, understandably, likely feeling a bit a