Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Part 4 Another picnic at Schermerhorn Park!

Schermerhorn Park is one of our favorite places to have a picnic with our family.  It is in Galena, Kansas.  We have blogged about it before.
We grilled our supper over briquets, which takes awhile, so Janet pushed Charissa and Jonathan around in their strollers to keep them content.
 Randy arrived between ABE Painting jobs.
 Two little boys, always glad to see Daddy!
 Tim and Brenda hanging out by one of the ABE vans.  Rowen was heading back to a grill to turn or stir something.  We used two of the grills to have lots of yummy food to eat.
 These vegetable/chicken kabobs were on one grill, and foil wrapped potato chunks and brocolli/cauliflower vegetables on the other.
 Charissa having a walk with her daddy.
 Tim
 Brenda and Charissa taking a stroll.
 
Rowen and Janet
 Emily and Jonathan
 Jonathan doing something funny with his tongue.
 The kids all posing in/by a hollow tree.
 Emily and Charissa
 Jeffrey and Quil
 Micah and Jeffrey
 Emily and Joanna
 Quil and Micah, hanging out on the bridge
 Jeffrey and Jonathan
After eating, after a walk in the woods, we played on the play equipment for awhile.  Jonathan loved the swing.
 
 He loved for Grandpa Albertson to push him in the swing.
Charissa does not like to swing.  She actually trembled in fear when we put her in the one by Jonathan.  But she didn't mind being on someone's lap to swing.
I found out she loved slides!  She nearly wore Grandma Albertson out going up and down this slide!
 I think all the time on the slide gave me some brownie points with her.  :)
She noticed the big slide and wanted to go down it too!
 It was a fun evening for all of us, except maybe Randy, who had to eat and then go back to work. 

Part 3 of our Missouri trip pictures

 One day, Rowen took Joy and the boys, Joanna, and Emily on a hike/picnic.  This was the day Janet and Jeffrey helped Brenda reupholster the dining room chairs, so they didn't come.  It was a new hiking area in Joplin.  They went off-trail to picnic on a blanket.
 Jonathan munching on a baby carrot.
 He is so cute!
 The picnic with Emily in the pictures and Rowen taking them.

 Rowen, Quil, and Micah found a creek to enjoy.
 Quil
 Micah
 Emily and Jonathan, who appears to be waving!

More pictures from our Missouri trip (Part 2)

 Charissa and Janet enjoying the swing on Grandma and Grandpa Scoles's front porch
                                       Brenda
 Wanda Scoles, Janet's mother.  It was such a gorgeous day to sit on the porch swing and visit!
Rex Scoles, Janet's daddy.  He was trimming around their many flower beds.
 At some point, every little 1 1/2 year old girl wants to move porch furniture...
 A really sweet picture of Charissa
 Jonathan, most photographed 10 month old in Joplin...
 Joy and Quil leading the way on a walk to see the progress in a bird's nest they've been watching.

 Joanna, (Joy's sister), Micah, and Jonathan on the same walk.  Emily was along too, but she was taking pictures.
 Micah and Jonathan being sweet!
 The eggs still haven't hatched!
  Randy and his son, Jonathan, having fun together.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Trip to Missouri May 21-27, 2013 Part 1

Only Emily got to go with us to Missouri, because Beth and Jason were working.  Jeffrey met us there on Thursday and came home with us.  This post's pictures are from the evening of our arrival, May 21.  If everybody looks tired, it's because we were!
                                      Randy
                                        Tim
              Grandma singing "Climb, climb up Sunshine Mountain" with Jonathan.
                        He didn't seem to have any stranger anxiety about us.
 
     The bigger little boys and Charissa wanted to color with Emily, Joy, Brenda, and Joanna. 
                                       Micah and Quil
                                       Quil and Joy