April 18 2010 Avery and Audrey call Grandma & Grandpa's car the Marshmellow car, because it looks like a big soft marshmellow. They came with thier Papa to visit and helped Grandpa wash the car and his truck too. Grandpa has a power hose that Avery got to use. Audrey got her own pink washing rag. Sometimes somebody would miss the car and squirt Grandma or Audrey and we'd run down the drive way screaming (with delite, it was a warm day:)

May 1, 2010 Miss Audrey (just over 3 years old) always asks Grandma if she can help. Her brother used to love to wash dishes, so I asked her if she would like to do it. She was thrilled. She loved squirting the soap bottle and washed everything 2-3 times to be sure they were clean. She was very sad when I ran out of plastics for her to scrub.

Feb 2010 ... 4 year old Grandson avery loves cars, trucks, fire engines, anything with a motor. He and his sister were visiting the day Grandpa changed his oil on his antique Oldsmobile. Avery was so excited. He laid down on the cement and watched Grandpa's every move. Feb was still cold here (for us spoiled Arizonans) so I made him put a big T-shirts on over his clothes and a towel under his head - but it wasn't EZ - he didn't want to leave his "action view" spot for even a second!

Grandpa's Saturday in the Pool

Well, Having a swimming pool is wonderful - but it is a lot of work, and Ariz Grandpa has to do most of it. Here in Arizona, every 4-5 years it is recommended that you should fully drain the pool (the minerals from adding water really build up over time and can damage the actual equipment that keeps the pool running), acid wash the finnish (we have a pebble tech type of finnish) and, if you have a tile edging (we do) you need to sand blast off the white, cement line that has built up at the waters edge.