Grandma's Girl Party 2012

Well the Girl Party started with building recipe books.  They decorated them and then traded their favorite recipes.  Of course we had to try many of them.

 Then Monday morning found us at the fish pond.  Grandpa had to show Oakley how to do it.

 The favorite saying is "Fishing is boring - Catching is fun"  You can see below that they had some fun.

 Then the favorite part of the party was the horse ride.  They would like to do this everyday.

 Look who is big enough to ride her own horse.  Oakley is a big girl.

 

 No Girl Party would be complete without facials, manicures, and pedicures.  What a houseful of beautiful women.  They even did Grandma's toes and fingernails.

 

 Then there was a visit to Pizza Hut for lunch on the way to go bowling.

Then we had to paint and decorate our Jewelry Boxes.

 Also were the personalized tie died pillow cases.

 No party would be complete without a visit to Grandma's classroom at school.  They helped Grandma get her class ready for school to start.

 As you can see this was a busy 5 days.  The best part of these parties is the cousin bonding.  They are such good friends and like to be together.

Grandma's Boy Party 2012

 Well the Boy Party always has lots of fishing. Only twice a day.  Most of the time it was  catching.  It took Jace a little longer than the others to get his first fish.

 See the guts and fish eggs?  It must be a girl fish.

 Oh yes and atleast twice a day in the hot tub.  It was so much fun that they did not even was to go to the big pool.

 This party also had computer games during the off time.

 Even boys like to do crafts.  Their favorite was building bird houses.

 We love to shoot the BB guns.  Grandma is a great supervisor.

 Then it was off to Pizza Hut before bowling. 

 Bowling was a lot of fun.

 The last day we tried to go play in the boat on the lake, but the water has been let out to the point that the boat ramp is not in the water.  So no boating enabled play in the river, but it was quite muddy.

This was a great party.  No pictures of the horseback riding, the bird house construction, or golfing.  But they were fun.  Oh ya I also forgot to mention the golf cart races.

Grandma took home the boys and brought the girls for their party.