So, one might think that going to visit Grandma and Grandpa Cowley in a trailer park would not be the most exciting thing in the world to a 6 year old, a 4 year old and a 1 year old. Well, if you are one of those people, you would be WRONG! Grandma and Grandpa Cowley are currently serving a mission at the Oakland Temple Visitor's Center and while they are there, they opted to stay in their RV trailer, which is camped on the temple grounds around the back. It must be so cool to actually live on the temple grounds! With round the clock security to boot (that was for you Mom!)! Well, we are lucky enough that we are only an hour or so away, so we get to see them pretty regularly, which is just the best thing in the world according to Nate and Dana. In fact, next week, they are having a sleepover in the trailer for Grandma and Grandpa's P-Day, and they have already started a countdown! But this past week, Jared and I have the wonderful privilege of going to see them, then dropping off the kids so we could enjoy a temple session together. Needless to say it was awesome! Here are some of the activities the kids did while we got to be spiritually filled:
I'm not sure what Dana had to eat, but it looks like it was pretty good! Grandma Cowley is an excellent cook! Jared is always begging me to make him her special homemade Mac and Cheese. You know how kids say the darndest things, well, here are 2 funny/sweet things the kids said on our way to the temple last Tuesday:We were listening to some instrumental hymns in the car on our way down to Oakland, and Dana recognized one of the songs we were listening to. Since her deepest desire is to be on American Idol, she began to sing along. The song was 'I Am A Child Of God', and this is how it went: "I am a child of God, and so my knees are grey." I about died laughing!
As we pulled off the freeway and could see the temple spires, Nate got this silly grin on his face. I asked him what he was smiling about and he said, "I just got filled with the spirit Mom." It's moments like that one that just make everything else worth it. I love my kids!
Kimmy just kept saying "Hiya!" about 900 times all the way there. It's her favorite word.
Nate and Dana having lunch in the Holy Trailer.
Nate has had so much fun getting to be around Grandpa Cowley. Since Grandpa used to be a teacher, he loves to feed Nate's curiosity.
Apparently, some kind of nuts were had, and this is the method of choice for opening them up. Doesn't it look super safe?
Thanks again Elder and Sister Cowley. See ya next month!
6 comments:
Your kids are SO cute! Looks like they had a great time with grandpa and grandma. How nice that must be to have them so close by!
Love your word play with "holy" you're so cute! I can just hear you laughing! I was going through some pictures and saw one of Nate and Zack on his 4th bday I think? It was so cute!
How fun for you and the kids to have such a special trip. It's so nice to have grandparents so close again I bet. We sure miss you guys though!
You are so lucky to have grandparents kind of closeby! The kids are so cute. Laughing about that pic of the hammer and nuts.
So totally cute! I love the grey knees, but my favorite part was "to boot!" That's sooooo Aunt Annie! Hyrum thought that was so hilarious after he met your mom. He'd never hear "to boot" before. I wish you lived closer!!!!
AHEM!! Why back in my day, we didn't have fancy hammers to crack nuts, we had to use our bare knuckles and our teeth, and it was snowing "to boot!" Hammers are totally safe in the hands of little kids. They each cracked their knuckles only once! Grandpa kisses fix all!
Nice write up! On Dana's face was store bought donut and PB & J.
Grandpa Cowley
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