These last few days, we've had the Chenhalls girls with us - so our world has been filled with cousin love, lots of giggles, (a few squabbles), Simone adoration, and imaginary eagles. Pretty rad. Then, yesterday, we had a "Christmas in June" Mleziva family reunion at
Bay Beach - which, let the record show, is practically the same but looks awfully different through 30-year-old eyes... though I can still remember fluffing up my hair to eek past the minimum height standard for the bumper cars or watching Joey Pozorski puke into a baseball hat on the Scat... But, I digress. The girls got Grandpa Bob on quite a few rides, and the Mleziva siblings all took on their new roller coaster! Plus, we played some
Schafkopf (sheephead), dodged a storm, and all-in-all, had a great (albeit un-photographed) day.
Then, today we had a birthday party for GiGi AND a trip out to a local farm that I found on my quest for real farm eggs. To call it a success barely covers it - we had an extremely gracious host, Christine, who showed us more friendly baby animals than we could ask for - Not to mention an aimless guinea hen and zombie chicken (that had "died" twice, then came back to life). Adventures and squeals abound!
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| Grandchildren & Bloody Mary's - a few of the birthday girl's favorite things (narrowly surpassing the gifts from G-Bob and myself, which seemed to fall ever so slightly flat, but amusing. Good thing she had the grandchildren here...) |
~ ~ ~ TO THE FARM! ~ ~ ~
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| That little brown & white kitty was just calling to be Simone's new sister... we shall see. |
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| See what I mean? |
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| Siirrrrriously. |
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| Baby ducks! |
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| And chickens! |
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| ... even turkeys! Oh my! |
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| Just outside of this shot were two big cow skulls... which fortunately went unnoticed by the girls. Thanks, pigs. |
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| Oh yeah, we blend. |
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| I never could resist a goat... (even worth nearly impaling my forehead with what can only be called a rusty rod...) |
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| Could you? |
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| Happy girl after her first farm visit! :) |
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| Spoils of our adventure - the top left are duck eggs - which had GiGi & Grandpa Bob squirming and giggling on the way home. (But I just had one for lunch, and it was quite delish.) |
