Sunday Smiles #2..Our day with Claire and yard tour

Last Monday was Memorial Day Holiday and Claire spent it with us.
After getting up and making breakfast we ate on the patio.

Then Claire started having fun in the yard.

Grampy designed the yard especially for kids

We call this side yard the enchanted Forest.

There are ramps to go up...

And bridges....

And a rope to go up and down the hill

And paths to explore

(Can you see the 7 dwarf's mine behind Claire?)

There are dragons...

And enchanted flowers

Claire loves our enchanted forest and so do I.
We have spent many a day there playing and having picnics.
I am glad that John made this magic land for us.

Next, Grampy asked Claire to help him find

treasures from the back yard.

Claire spied the artichokes and passion fruit first.

Then the strawberries....yummy

And Boysenberries...

Then more strawberries from the patio patch.

What a lot of treasure our yard gave us that day.

We got, tomatoes, strawberries, boysenberries, beets,
artichokes, rhubarb , lemons and oranges.

... and a pretty Passion Flower

After that Claire was ready to swim.

I told her it was too cold but....

She convinced me it was just right...

So I went in too. We had fun.

That evening she went with us to visit a sick, housebound friend of ours.
Claire sang Helen several songs.
Helen thought Claire has a beautiful voice and enjoyed the "concert".

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EJ and Austin also spent a night and day with us last weekend.

I will tell you my smiles about that later.

Have a great week.

Hugs, Lura