Brevin is 12 now and he's at the boy-man stage where he still enjoys walking to the park and climbing up on the big rock and sliding on the really cool wire pulley thingy at Howard Amon Park, but I suspect in another year or two he won't be caught dead on it. **sniff sniff** His voice is changing and he's so tall and handsome. We're sure to lose him to some cute chica and we'll be old news. The younger ones still love sitting with Grandpa.
Saturday morning we got up, ate a big breakfast and then walked to the park. Walked home, bbq'd hamburgers and shuffled everyone into cars and headed to the roller rink. Everyone skated except Grandpa. I fell and did some damage to my left hand and thought I had broken my wrist but it seems to be getting better. Sad to say, that was my last roller skating for the rest of my life. I can't afford to hurt my money-makers. I did have a lot of fun though and it brought back floods of memories of taking Justin and his cousins roller skating in Fairbanks, Alaska in the cold winter months when there wasn't much else to do. Anyway, after skating, we tried to get them to carve pumpkins but they just weren't all the interested in that activity so we made fried chicken and Cathy put candles on the last half of Jasper's belated 18th birthday cake (the first half was consumed on Friday night!) and then played a great game of Taboo. Blake did really well and he can be on my team any day of the week! After that, Cathy popped in a movie and by 10:00 p.m. everyone was bushwacked. We packed a lot of fun into Saturday but hopefully some great memories were made for these kids. I know I'll remember it, at least all week, while my busted up wrist is healing. Awesome weekend!
We all had soooo much fun!Blake did rock at Taboo who would have guessed!On the way home Jeremy said look Cath it is the Rose Garden and ????? I guess I will never live down not getting that answer!
ReplyDeleteWhen I walked into the skating rink, I thought, hey, maybe I should have gone skating, until I saw Susan's wrist and lower arm.. then I though, yup good call. I have to say we did pack a lot into a couple of days. It was really nice meeting Jasper, and spending time with everyone. Got a chance to hang alone for a little while with Brevin and that was good, as Susan said he will not want to be caught dead with ANY family over 25 years old for a few years anyway, starting real soon now. That is just how it is. He's a good kid and might not be quite so hesitant to hang, but I won't take it too personally if he doesn't.. just part of moving into young adulthood. A bit of a right of passage and I was there with it some 46+ years ago. Gads... can it be that long ago since I was 13 years old.. I guess it could!!
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