Texas came to town

 Texas came to see us, and boy did we have fun!!  But, we need to get caught up before we get to Texas :)

 Here, Austin is showing you how to make fossils with nature; it is a four-legged animal on the left (very generic I suppose) and a shark on the right.  The rocks used to make the shark were pointed at the top, so this is 3 dimensional art.

 We have been doing major remodeling work over the past few years, and this is the end result for the outside of our house....finally finished, with the house, now on to the yard....

Ansley has become quite the independent dresser; this was her creation sort of, and boy was she proud.

Austin on the other hand had to devise a way to trap leprechauns.....seems the best way to do that is with green & gold.  this was his trap, with a working spring door which made a loud "whack" when it shut......no, the butter in the background was not a prop :)

 Well, Grandad and Nanny came to see us, so we had to put them to work!! Here, you can see Dad helping us tear down a wall; he is showing us that he still knows how to work after all of these years!!

Before.......

during......and.....you will have to wait for the after as we are still working on it.

The real reason they came to GA was because we finally got the kids baptised; so here is our group, squinting and all!!

Then, Austin taught Grandad how to play chess.  We still do not quite believe it, but my Dad really did not know how to play chess and Austin is learning, so he taught Dad what to do. Scary huh?!?

More pictures to come as we wrap up this project......