Visit from Grandpa Slaugh

Grandpa Slaugh came to visit us! Yeah! The kids made sure to show him all their tricks they can do, all their pictures they've colored, all their cool toys, and all their projects they've made. They loved having an audience. Grandpa brought gummy worms and gummy bones. They thought that was great.

Grandpa brought projects to work on with the kids - 2 bird feeders. The first one we just had to paint. Here they are taking turns painting it:

And here is the bird feeder finished, and hanging up off our back porch. Why is there a branch tied and hanging from it? Just for fun!
And here is the other bird feeder we helped screw together.
We love our Grandpa!! He told us stories every night after the kids were tucked in bed. My favorite was about when Joey was about 6 years old or so. The family went to pick out a tree together. When we brought it home, Dad cut a slice off the bottom of the tree trunk with a bow saw before bringing it in the house and putting it in the water. A little while later, Dad was looking out the back window when he noticed, "Hey, didn't we have 2 fruit trees out there? I only see one!" He went out to investigate, and found the second fruit tree standing up in the sand pit - with ropes tied to it to help it stand up! The culprit: Joey, of course!