Summer day

Pam and I met at Grandpa's today with the kids. It was a hot day, but all the shade on the deck made it pretty pleasant.

Haliegh and Jake wore their bathing suits and tromped around in the creek for awhile, but quickly grew bored and wandered off to the swing set. Micah and Eric took off for at least an hour on their own "adventure". They saw some fish in the deeper end of the creek and tried to catch those and tadpoles with only a Styrofoam cup and a stick. They didn't catch anything. LOL When they came back to Grandpa's yard Jake and Haliegh ran back down to the creek and helped their brothers catch some crayfish. It was nice to sit there and watch them all be "kids". Exploring and imagining that they were some kind of big game hunters. They captured 4 crayfish in all , but one of them crawled back out of the cup and scuttled it's way to freedom.

After all that "fun" the kids decided to cool off in the front yard with the new sprinkler. I bought if for 10.00 at Wal-Mart and it's AWESOME!! It shoots out balls from the top and has 4 different sprays along the sides. The big boys and the little kids all loved it and did a pretty fair job of flooding grandpa's front yard. In fact, at one point a mole popped right up out of it's hole and scurried past Micah, sending all the kids in different directions screaming their heads off. I bet that mole didn't know how frightening it was! LOL I guess they flooded his home and he needed to move.

There are tons of pictures from this day on myphoto album website. Go have a look!