A Day in Indee

I am a bit behind on my blogging--well, like almost a week behind! My apologies!

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Last Sunday afternoon, Jamie, Austin, and I jumped into the "Big Green Booger", A.K.A. the green Expedition, and hopped highways 53 and 93 to Independence. We needed to pick Andrew and Abby up from an overnight visit to Granpa Ken and Grandma Debbie's house, and we were due for a visit to Grandpa Edward. Grandpa hosted us in his beautiful, shady backyard. Grandpa was looking fine, and no where near his 96 years... ~~~

Of course, Grandpa Ken had the "toys" out for the grandkids to play on. Abby was lucky to get rides from both Grandpa Ken and from her Daddy!
Austin tried out the big scooter, too, as he would sure like to have one of his own someday for "scootin' " around Barron!
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Andrew claimed Grandma Deb's scooter for the afternoon. I think Abz had a few chances to ride it, but Andrew "tore up the lawn" with this "Beast"!
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The dogs had a BLAST chasing the kids on the scooter all over the yard, and Grandpa's yard offered them plenty of room to run.
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We posed for a few pics while we were enjoying the nice summer weather...
Here are the kids with Grandma Debbie--the Grandpa poses may surface around Father's Day (hint, hint)!

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Jack and Sophie had the times of their lives in Grandpa Edward's backyard! They ran and ran and chased the kids. Then, for an extra-special treat, I had a ham bone for each of them to gnaw on while they lounged in the grass--yummy!

We had a fun afternoon in Independence!

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Earlier in the week, Abz had the opportunity to spend some time in Chippewa with her cousin, Lexi. Lexi's mom, Kathy, and Jamie are first cousins. Lexi lives in (or near) Chicago, and was up in Wisconsin visiting her Grandma Darlene, so it was a great time for the two girls to get together and renew their friendship. Lexi got to come visit us at our house one evening and play some Wii, see the dogs, go for a walk, ride bikes and scooters, take in a baseball game, and meet some of Abby's friends.

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Here are Lexi, Abz, and Ahna playing the Wii during Lexi's visit...

Silly Girls!

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