Mamo's Visit, Part 2

At the same mall as yesterday's post, with the snow, there's an Outdoor World. During December, the Outdoor World sets up a whole wintery play area with model trains, remote control trucks, video games, shooting games, fake deer, a real Santa, snacks, snow, and bunches of stuff for sale. It's basically a big display area, but the kids love it because the themeing is so much fun. Here the boys are playing one of the shooting games.


Levi shooting at a different game.

Mamo with both boys and a snowman. Too cute!

Indy playing a fishing game. They had so much fun! Mamo and I just sat in some big chairs while the boys played for nearly an hour! And, since it was the middle of a weekday, there was no one there competing for the games. They had the run of the place and we had a nice visit. :-)

And, of course, Mamo brought us some fall leaves from NC. They sat for days in their boxes because it was raining all during Thanksgiving. Ugh. And, then the ground and all of outside was wet for days. Yuck! Finally, it was dry enough to play with the leaves! Yay!

And, somehow when we play with our fall leaves each year, neighborhood kids come out of the woodwork to come play, too! lol These poor FL kids don't get to play with fall leaves except when Mamo sends them! Here's one of the neighbor boys playing with Levi and a little later his sister showed up with his mom and then two other kids from a different family! It was funny. We love to share, though, so we're glad they got to come play.

A couple days before Mamo left to go back home, we had our environmental class, which we took her to. Levi had a hard time sitting still during this particular class, so Mamo took him out and walked around the property with him. And, of course, took pictures! :-)

Levi found a snail and we made him put it back before we went home. Here he's putting it in a safe place.

During this class, we were learning about old cultures so the kids' assignment was to create an old culture and make a museum of artifacts they "found" (made) about this (made-up) culture. Indy was in charge of the weapons display...big surprise there, eh?? lol Here he's showing off the weapons he "found".

This was so cute. It was a sign he made to tell the "museum patrons/visitors" not to touch the artifacts. During the tour of the museum, he told all about each weapon and it's purpose. He did a great job! And found some very unique weapons, too! ;-)

As we were leaving, I took a quick picture of Mamo with the beautiful property in the background. Unfortunately, I forgot to tell her to smile, so it looks like she was caught off guard. But, that's ok, it's still a good picture. And she has proof she was there! :-)

The last day before she left, we went to see a play at the children's theater in town with our homeschool group. It was a pretty good play and the kids enjoyed it. It was nice that Mamo got to go with us.

Sadly, Ashton was in school, so she missed this play, but Savannah did get to go with us. Here the kids are in front of the board with the play's poster.

We had a very busy, yet fun, visit with Mamo. I think she always needs a vacation when she leaves us! lol We got some Christmas shopping done and got to go to dinner and have some nice time visiting. I wish we lived closer, but it makes the times we have more precious. Love you, Mom! :-)