I miss these cuties

Living 14 hours away from two of my grandchildren is a real bummer.  Thankfully their parents and other set of grandparents post lots of pictures on facebook and I get to see and save them.  Here are the latest photos of Kastyn and Jasper.

They just grow up so fast.

Elijah

We have been fortunate to be able to spend the last 9 days with Elijah.  Here are a few of the high lights of our time together.  He is the youngest son of Bill and Christina Derixson and one of my grandsons.

Hannah took Elijah to the state park to go fishing.  He had a blast.  They went kayaking one day and several days they shot bows and arrows.

Elijah sure loved this silly wig.  I took a picture of him in it and then after his hair cut and sent it to his mom and said, boy he really needed that hair cut. 

First Mema camp for Elijah

Yesterday we brought our grandson Elijah home with us for his first Mema camp by himself.  He has come to stay before with one of his siblings but we decided he was old enough at 5 to come by himself.  He had been wanting to.  We had hesitated only because his folks live 4 hours away and if he was unhappy here it would be a chore to take him home.

He was a good boy on the trip home sleeping most of the way, and chattering the rest of the way.

Last night he soaked up the attention.  I think he really enjoyed having Mema, Papa and Hannah plus the two dogs all to himself.  I know it gave us a chance to enjoy him more.

He only gets to stay two nights this time but I am sure we will be doing this again.

I gave him a hair cut before his bath last night.  He looks so cute.

Today we will be playing games and working in his workbook.  I made a few learning activities for him to do.  As a reward, Hannah downloaded a few learning games for him on my tablet.  At home he plays a lot of Mario Brothers but we don't have that here thankfully.  We seldom even turn on the TV.

I will post more pictures to this post later as we do things together.

Making Jelly

Today my granddaughter Kaitlyn and I will be making jelly.  I hope to make two kinds of jelly, peach pit and watermelon.  Jeff bought two huge watermelons and then left to work out west.  There is no way we can eat that much watermelon so I will make jelly.  He loves his jelly so he will love this.  This is the recipe I will be using.
http://www.pickyourown.org/watermelonjelly.htm
 

A couple of weeks ago I bought two cases of peaches from bountiful baskets.  The peaches looked great but about a third of them were bad.  I canned up as much as I could and saved the peels and pits from them to make jelly.  I saved two gallon zip lock bags of peels and pits.  I did not save anything from the peaches that were bad.  I just threw them away.
This is the recipe I will be using for the peach pit jelly.
http://raisinghomemakers.com/2011/peach-jelly-the-easy-way/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+RaisingHomemakers+(Raising+Homemakers)&utm_content=Google+Reader
 
I will try to remember to post pictures once we get the jelly made.  I wanted to save these recipes so I can easily find them after bit.

A dress for Kastyn and a dress for her doll

My granddaughter received a doll for Christmas and asked me to make matching dresses for her and her doll.  I made these pillowcase type dresses in answer to her plea.  If they fit I will make more of them.  I took lots of measurements and notes so I will be able to adjust as needed.  I hope both dresses fit because they are so cute.

Happy Birthday Kastyn (4)

Happy Birthday Kaleena

Today is my second daughters birthday.  Happy Birthday Kaleena

Riding the Ferry

Today we went to Port Aransas and rode the ferry.  Its a short ride but fun.

Girls road trip to the aquarium

Enjoying the grandkids

Three of my daughters and two of my grandkids are here this week.  We have been having a good time.

Courtney did it again

This is the second dress that Courtney remade into a skirt.  This time I didn't even have to give advice.  The first one I told her what to do and she did it.  This time I wasn't needed.  She really has a knack and vision.  I'm very proud of her.