"My Grandpa & My Grandma Come!"

We are so excited that our Grandpa and Grandma Shirley were able to come visit us.  We haven't seen them since Christmas and a few things have changed in our family since then. :0)  We took them to see the Duke Gardens.  The weather was really nice and the ducks were hungry!

Dad trying to lure to ducks in closer.

Grandma and Nathan watching the kids play with the ducks.
 

Daniel feeding some turtles.  It is hard to feed the turtles unless they are right below you because the ducks move in so quickly and steal the bread.
 

Andy was trying to catch a turtle or some catfish with his hands.  He almost fell in a couple times.  He grabbed a big turtles shell, but it was too slippery because of all the moss on it's shell.  If only he had a net!
 

One of our first family pictures!

Eliza, Dad, Daniel, Mom, Nathan and Bradley
 

More wild life.
 

Andy and the kids with Grandma and Grandpa
 

Grandpa and Nathan enjoying the scenery.  Grandpa is good to teach the kids something new when he comes.

Here he is teaching Nathan to talk like a monkey!
 

I am not sure what they were doing here, but they are cute.  :0)
 

This little pond is by the visitors center.  The lily pads are so pretty!

I may need a pond like this in my yard some day...complete with Coy fish and frogs!
 

We were heading into the visitor center and we found a group doing story time.  They were reading about butterfly.  Afterwards we went inside and they made butterflies.  They have things for kids on the first Saturday and the third Thursday.  It was really fun.

Bradley and Daniel making butterflies.  They had two thin paper circles that they put marker on.  Then they used little water droppers to make the marker smear a little.  Then they used pipe cleaners to connect the butterfly wings.  They turned out pretty cute.
 

Eliza making a butterfly.

Eliza with her finished product.

Bradley, Grandpa, Nathan and Grandma trying to cool off in the visitors center.
 

After we got home Dad and Nathan took a little nap.  It wears you out to chase ducks and walk around the gardens.

Bradley watching a quiet movie with his lizards.

Thanks again Grandma for the lizards!

Grandpa taking a nap.  We really did have a bed for Grandpa to sleep on he just didn't want to walk up the stairs to the bed.

He was afraid he would miss something I guess.

August 2-6, 2012