Okay- so Spring has NOT really sprung- but I do have a few green leaves and buds in my flower beds and on my rose bushes.
Last weekend (18th & 19th) Jim's son Justin, his wife Nikki and our two grandsons Tanner and Tyler came to visit. For an "early birthday" gift to Jim, they helped us with a couple of long overdue projects in the house!
Justin started the decluttering/re-organizing of Jim's gun storage room and make him a built in reloading station. He re-inforced the shelves so Jim can store whatever he needs or wants in there. It is amazing how much "junk" you can cram into a space. We threw away several bags of stuff, took down several plastic shelving units and there is still a lot to do! But there is room to move around and I think Jim is really going to enjoy it!
Then Nikki decluttered and organized the "toy room"... we have this big bonus room over the garage that has been used as a catch-all room, guest bedroom and as the play room for the kids. Over the years we had collected quite a bit of toys in a bunch of rubbermaid type containers and boxes. She went through the toys and got rid of the broken/destroyed/useless items and all the other stuff that had made it's way up there. Y'know- that room is quite large and roomy. We bought some drawer/storage units and separated the toys into the drawers so the kids can play with a drawer ful and hopefully put those toys away before getting out another drawer ful!
I think my next project up there will be to get some of that "chalkboard paint" and paint a couple of huge squares on the walls for the kids to draw on with chalk. Also- I've GOT to get some kind of decorations on the walls now... it looks so bare!
I also made a cake to surprise Jim and the boys had a lot of fun helping him with the candles. I was a little disappointed- I bouth "sparkler" candles and they didn't work very well- just a couple of splutters here and there! But the kids loved it! Especially Tanner- we wrote Happy Birthday Grampa in green - which is Tanner's favorite color.
We had a blast playing with the kids... or rather Tanner and I had a blast playing. Ty is pretty mellow and he was pretty happy just hanging out with Grampa. Tanner and I played ball, wrestled, built a castle, bowled, and played "Zombies"-- they have a computer game called Plants Vs. Zombies which Tanner loves, but I do think he loved role playing it with Gramma way more! One of us would be a Zombie- coming after the other one saying "BRAINS--BRAINS!"- we used balls as the peashooters to kill each other-- but Tanner was a good Zombie, he made it to Gramma several times and ate my brains...hee hee!
It really was a fabulous weekend and hopefully we can share more with them and with our other kids and grandkids. It's really great when they come here as Jim can't travel much yet he SO loves to see them!
I took so many pictures I couldn't decide what to post- so I made a few collages and here they are! Wonderful, wonderful memories!
The boys hangin' out with Grampa & Gramma
Here are just a very few of the fun pictures of the boys playing.
I didn't realize how much bigger this room is now that it is organized! Nikki did a super
job - she is superwoman when it comes to cleaning and organizing!
I can't show you all of Jim's gun room (for security reasons at his request)-
but here is the reloading station Justing set up.
We feel so blessed by all our children and grandchildren. We have a wonderful family- we share a wonderful life- if we could change anything it would be Jim's health and we can't wait for this crazy economy to pick back up so we can sell our house and move to Pocatello to be closer to everyone!
Posted by a tired out Gramma (who's setting out tomorrow to see more grandkids!) with love.
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