GC 2010

Grandma Camp 2010 has arrived!

Lydia and Ellie were really excited about the opportunity to spend another short week with Grandma Eucker.  We drove home Saturday night after celebrating Ellie's birthday and pretty much went to bed after talking about books with Auntie Alyssa for awhile, although Ellie had to practically beg to go to bed.

The next morning we started our morning pretty gradually, with the girls up at around 6:30 am 

Lydia doing some reading ...

and Ellie in the play area ...

After a french toast breakfast for the one non-fasting person we got ready and went off to Church.




After Church it was time to ...

Read ...

[notice the slightly blue lips ... that was from the blue sucker that Ellie's teacher gave her during Primary ...]

And play games  ... (in this case Clue)

After a short game where Grandma inserted a character and two weapons (no room) in the final clue envelope ... 

it was time for a fun craft!

(or at least the first steps - more to follow tomorrow).

After Ellie finished decorating her washers, she naturally ....

Got back to her book ...

Then it was time to prepare dinner.  

That blur on Grandma's left is Lydia trying to move out of the picture before her Grandpoparatzi can get the shot ... 

This will be sort of a pattern throughout the imagemaking process ...

Along with Ellie reading ...  in this case she was enamored with the Church News ...

Then it was time for treat making ...

Where Lydia tried her hand at the hand mixer ... while also trying to avoid Grandpoparatzi ...

Quite the challenge.  Even for a well trained image avoider like Lydia ...

Before the treats were finished we got to join in with the weekly Skype session with the Pulman Euckers ...
















The girls were a great help in showing cousin Ben the toys ...











But the real treat was to see how much Emma had grown!











The finale of the evening was to watch Saturday's Warrior ...

only the old video cassette had seen too many playings over too many years in what has become an archaic technology.

So they listened to the audio CD while painting their nails ...

And that wound down the first day of GC 2010!

Stay tuned!