Sunday Six smiles for this week

Dear blog friends,

We have had a lot to smile about this week.

Let me show you a few things that made us smile and for which we are thankful.

Thursday July 9th was our 44th anniversary.

As I told you last week, we went away for a couple of days and had a great time.

(I will tell you all about in another post)

I took lots of pictures and then found the new 4GB SD memory card I'd bought would not upload the pictures to my computer....or any other computer.....and my card reader could not read it either...Even Sam's Club photo machine could not read it......BUMMER...I was not smiling....

...but....

I was able to get the pictures off of the card after all by taking them directly from the camera to the computer and not using a card reader....what a relief....that made me smile.

(Thanks to all of you that sent me blog concern about this last week.)

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Mindy and Ernie went on a little get-away last weekend and we got to keep their 3 children and their dog for 4 days.

We had so much fun.

We played in the pool from morning 'til night

Monday 10 year old Lonica flew in from Utah to join us.
We were all smiling and happy to have Loni-Lou with us.
Then we played in the pool even more.
(If that was possible)

We made homemade ice cream
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Loni and Grampy had their traditional buttermilk toast.

They think it is yummy even though the rest of us say "Yuck!"

They make me smile.

We made cookies.... twice!

Did I mention that we played in the pool?

I had 20 wet towels a day to prove it.

We roasted marshmallows at the fire pit.

The kids kept wanting some more s'mores
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We played wii for hours

(If we weren't at the fire pit or in the pool we were playing wii)

This picture cracks me up.

Do you think Austin played wii a little too long???
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I took the girls to the movies to see "Up"
The boys had already seen it and wanted to stay home with Grampy, so we girls had a gal's afternoon out.
(The popcorn and the soda cost as much as the tickets to the movie...That didn't make me happy but the smile on the girl's faces did.)

It turned out that we were the only people in the theater.

I let the girls sit on the front row and goof off.

We had fun.
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What a blessing to be able to spend this past week with 4 of our grandchildren.

I am thankful for the fun we had and the memories we made.

I am thankful that John and I have the health and strength to do this.

I was worn out by the time Mindy and Ernie got home....but at the same time I hated to see them go.

I am blessed with a wonderful family.

I thank my Heavenly Father for each of them every day.

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That is what I've been smiling about....how about you?

Have a great week.

Love, Grammy Lura