Going Home

One last photo before Ryland goes to school and I head to the airport.  Precious boys!  Easton and I had a chance to play a little indoor hockey before I had to leave for the airport.  I kept telling him that it was hard for me because the sticks were for kids and my stick was too short for me.  Easton asked me if it was really hard for me and I said yes!  Easton, "You should have come here when you were a young kid and played with me!"  Ha ha!  I left the game to write down what he said and he told me to stop writing and start playing.  Easton was eating Cheez-its and he told me they powered him up.  I told him I was going take some of his Cheez-its to power me up for the game.  Get ready for a big hit Easton!  Pow.  It wasn't a big hit.  Easton's suggestion, "You need to eat more Cheez-its Grandma, you aren't powered up.  I stopped to write his words down again.  Easton, " I am done saying cute things so you don't write them down and start playing."

As I was browsing through a clothing magazine before I left I mentioned that the clothes were cute.  Easton said, "You're cute Grandma Jacko!"  Love the Doolittles!

Parker, CO Geocaching May 2013

Keri and the boys picked me up at the Denver Airport and it was so good to see their smiling faces! I will never get used to hearing GRANDMA JACKIE and Ryland and Easton hugging me to greet me.  Priceless.  We met up with Mark for some lunch at a yummy Mexican restaurant.  Surprise isn't it!  In the evening it was family walk time.  Keri had prepared a list of things for both boys to find.  A scavenger hunt!  They were all things that the boys could find walking in the neighborhood.  

 I had to show off my whistle blowing skills with a blade of grass.  It is so hard to teach someone how to do that.  I guess it might just be a God given gift I have.

 Totally love this picture!  Thanks for sharing it Keri!

These two boys love each other so much and you sure can tell by the way they treat each other.

 Ryland is reading the official scavenger hunt list with great concentration.

 A find!!! Put it in the bag!

Step two on the family walk.  Geocaching.  A new cache was listed not far from the house of Doolittle!  Easton is the first one to control the GPS.  This is serious business.  I remember when Keri and I used to do this geocaching with nothing but clues and hints.  No GPS.  We dug through many bushes that held no surprises.  We found our share too.

 Are we getting any closer?

 Now Ryland gets a turn to navigate!

 Success!

 HMMM.  The listing said it was difficult to open!

 Mark just pulled the top open.  Not difficult at all!

 The boys took out a truck and replaced it with a Colorado Flag pin.

 This was the difficult part.  The log was in a tiny box.  Mark got it opened.

 Intensely studying the log.  At least I think that is what Ry is looking at.

 Time to go home!  The sun is setting over the Colorado Rockies!