Uncle Paul & Daisy also came up and stayed with us. He brought up his new boat for us to check out, and then on Saturday Paul & Bruce took the boat out on the river. It sounds like they had fun fishing, and the kids got a kick out of his boat. There were all kinds of questions, but my favorite came from Andrew. He asked Paul "How come your boat has sparkles in it?" Paul told him that the only way Aunt Larissa would let him get a boat was if it had sparkles in it - he seemed okay with that answer! It's a Nitro bass boat, which is why it has sparkles it, I just thought it was funny that out of all the things he could notice, he noticed that.
Here are 2 pictures from their trip. The shinny silver fish is a Gar (for those of you that may have been wondering). It looks a bit prehistoric.
Early in the afternoon on Saturday I noticed a lot of smoke coming from behind one of the neighbors houses, but saw that they were burning their tall grass/weeds, so I didn't think much of it. As the day progressed the smoke/fire moved right along the line of houses. The smoke was pretty thick at times. This is what it looked like from our driveway:
We're not sure what happened, or who called, but the fire department showed up, so the kids were ecstatic to see this:
They burned a few acres of weeds/tall grass; they had let the fire department know, so we're not sure why the trucks showed up, but it did cause some excitement :)On Sunday night, we had dinner over the bonfire (per Andrew's request). Andrew had been asking all week to cook a hotdog over the fire, so he was happy to finally get the chance.
Jenna could have cared less about cooking hot dogs over the fire, and was much more interested in eating marshmallows and chocolate (and refused to eat them in the s'more version).
We ended up having an impromptu get together with the neighbors, along with the bonfire, which was a lot of fun. You can tell that it's spring - everyone is happy to be outside and seeing people again!
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