There (Grouse Creek)

What a crazy week last week! We spent time in Grouse Creek with the Mecham clan, celebrated a very small person's birthday, and more. I'm going to split this up into a few posts or it will be overwhelming.

Party #1

Our kids are famous for having their birthday celebrations spread out over long periods of time. This is in part because they always like to celebrate with family members who are inconveniently distributed geographically. Also because Meri and I are too worn out from partial celebrations to finish it all in one day.

Emma's first party was in Grouse Creek so that she could celebrate with the people she loves out there (and since we were already there).

YUMMY!

She blew out Lego-shaped candles and opened a couple of the presents we had given her. Then she had cake and icecream with the family and some of the Grouse Creek girls. All the girls went outside and played like crazy for a couple hours. Emma had a lot of fun and that was the goal. Mission accomplished.

The Nose Knows

Mason and Chris slept out on the trampoline at Grammy and Grampy's house for three nights while we were in Grouse Creek. On the third night they were out there jumping around having fun so I decided to sneak out and scare.... er... get some pictures. They were a little scared but not too much.

Yeah, it was pretty cold out there.

I made the suggestion that they should be careful running around and jumping in the dark and left to come back inside. A few minutes later they came inside to show us what Mason did to his nose:

The broken nose of consequence strikes again!

What better consequence than a natural one right? They both thought the whole thing was pretty humorous. Luckily he didn't really break it... at least not seriously. They promptly returned to the trampoline to finish the night out.

Up next the crazed antics of our return trip home. Stay tuned!