In the middle of making our tree house, we also celebrated DeeDee’s 88th Birthday last weekend. My parents threw her a beautiful luncheon with family and some of her close friends. I was in charge of the yummy part……the cake and cupcakes! A great time was had by all and the best gift of all was a visit from DeeDee’s sister Grannie Annie!
Trying on Uncle Dale’s shoes!
The Ladies!
For Christmas, “Santa” built Grayson a real big boy tool set. From an early age, Grayson has always been very mechanical and fascinated with tools and figuring out the way things are built and work. Since Christmas, we’ve done only a few small wood work projects with him, but nothing like this one. Blaine and Grayson had been casually talking about building a tree house for the past few weeks. I really didn’t think they were serious about it. As you’ll see, we hardly have a tree! Well, I definitely don’t think Blaine gives himself enough credit for how handy he really is! He and his handy little helper built the ultimate tree house in one day! After working the morning last Saturday, Blaine came home to eat a quick lunch, then drew up some plans (without using a calculator!) and then headed to Home Depot. The boys didn’t even start working until one in the afternoon and by six that night, they had themselves one awesome tree house! Way to go Dadda and Grayson!
The boys even put MIss Colbie to work! Blaine had taken his shirt off, so of course Grayson wanted to be just like his Dadda!
As you can see, we really don’t have much of a tree. When Blaine told me that they were really going to build one, I had a hard time picturing where and how he would build it. I never would have thought to just build around the tree….which is exactly what he did.
Grayson helped me paint a little and then took to streaking shortly after! It was a long hard day for little handy man and this was exactly how he came out of the house when I told him we needed to get inside and start getting ready for a bath! Crazy kid!
While I had very little to do with the actual building of the house, I did take on the decorating duties, which was super fun! In addition to painting, I made some little curtains for the windows and found some super cheap stick-on faux wood floor tiles.
You can see the house entrance here, which is a small hole in the back of the house. Grayson calls it the “secret tunnel!”
The kids are already having a blast with it and Grayson is planning a camp out! Hats off to you Daddy! You did and amazing job!
Once again, I am lacking in the blog department. I’ve had these pictures for a few weeks now and am just now getting around to posting them. With the weather warming up, we’ve enjoyed a few bike rides and picnics at our neighborhood park recently. Grayson and Daddy have also had some good luck in the fishing department at the pond there. I have no idea what kind of fish these are, but the boys did manage to catch three fish within an hour on one of our picnics. The one that Grayson is proudly holding above was caught entirely by Grayson himself! Blaine and I were chasing after Colbie, when we heard Grayson yelling “I caught a fish!” And sure enough, he was holding his pole up with a little fish dangling on the end!
We’ve been busy as ever here in the Morris household. I honestly can’t think of the last weekend we weren’t either out of town or had something going on. I took a trip to Scottsdale last weekend with my mom and Kim for a little girl’s weekend and for Brittney’s baby shower. Kim & I took a little photography class at the zoo Saturday morning and then we spent the rest of the afternoon doing a little shopping and visiting with the Andersons and the Hollenbauchs. The photography class was awesome, although, as with anything, unless I practice what I learned, I know it will go right out the window. I am already back to my lazy ways and taking pictures on AUTO again!
This weekend Blaine is out of town. He left very early this morning to take part in a mission trip with our church. They are building a rehab center for women in San Luis, Mexico in one weekend! Neither Blaine or I have ever done anything like this, so I am really happy for him that he gets to be a part of such a neat experience and am excited to hear how it all goes.
So here are just a few more recent pictures that I wanted to share.
You can tell by her shirt, Miss Colbie is either working on some more teeth or has a chronic drooling problem like her brother!
Just some cute pics I took last week before we headed out to Buddy & Susan’s for dinner. Colbie had on her cowgirl boots on for Buddy’s house!
PARK DAYS! Went to the park this am with Becca, Molly & Maggie. Grayson & Molly have such a love – hate relationship…..they are fighting one minute and hugging the next….but in the end, it’s all love! They are real buddies and wanted to ride home together in the same stroller!
Hope everyone is doing well! Have a great weekend!
