The Puddles

Lonnie made tasty pancakes while Ainsley "helped."

Playing with the dogs

Poor dogs. All of my children pulled on the dog's tailed while they learned to walk and he never hurt any of them.

Another fantastic visit with friends.

Getting ready for another roadtrip

Ben bailed out on helping to look for graves instead preferring the newly discovered ipods.

My super troopers for looking for grave markers. Chris took GPS coordinates for each discovered grave so we don't have to look everywhere again.

Marsha teaching Ben to dive

Don't you just love the way his ears flop over because of the googles.

Daddy's giving them all a ride

Ainsley's mad because no one will catch her

Luckily she put her puppy eyes to work on Lonnie and he finally went over to catch her

This is Ainsley, but it looks just like Madie at this age. Of course, this is the slide that Madie broke her front tooth on when she was two (and Daddy took her to the park).

Swimming at the City Pool

Someone does not want to go home.

Lonnie is getting all of the lines set up

Ben is digging for a worm. Yuck.

Bob turned this old grain storage bin until a beautiful gazebo wired with electricity. We weren't there long enough or I'm sure Chris would have helped him get wi-fi to it. Then it would have been perfect.

Now Lonnie is helping Madie get set up to fish.

Triumphant Ben!

Now it is Daddy's turn to fish with the kids

Chris getting some more excellent advice from Bob.

Sunset on Merriweather Park

Walking out of the courthouse and seeing friends

Madie went swimming with Erin that afternoon.

Playing outside at the Janing Farm.

The kids went looking for the new barn cats. This one is cute. I should have brought them Rosie. She would have totally fit in.

Ok. So only the girls were totally into the cats. The boys played spies with guns and all of the cool places to hide in the barn.

Back from the barn ready to move on with play

Ben found the sandbox.

I'm not sure that I want to know what Madie and Isaac are up to.

Yep. It was better that I not know. Something about tying a rope around the waist and then jumping off?

An awesome day with friends!

Time for dinner in Milligan

Ben and me after good food. Ben told me not to squeeze so hard.

I have no idea what that says. I know it's in Czech, but it looks cool.

Not many of these left

Morning swim before the drive

Ben is chillin' before he has to sit in a car for ten hours.

All three puddles sitting and waiting to leave to the journey

Filling up with gas and letting them move around a little

Stopping at a rest stop in Kansas. Chris caught himself a prize

The prize looks happy

I look around and find the children huddled under blankets because they found Dad's laptop and ipad and are playing it eventhough I told them to put it all away. Sneaky little devils.

This little devil feel asleep. Must have been all of that swimming.

We finally made it. I made Chris pull over so I could get a picture. I only had to walk half a mile back to get the photo on the side of a highway but luckily there was no traffic.

The beauty of the land.

This time Chris told me he wouldn't stop.