Weekend Snapshot: Little T's Visit

The highlight of our weekend was a visit from our grandson Tomas. He loves to be outdoors and it was a nice day so we went out. He enjoys this playhouse, mostly because there are so many windows and doors he can open and close. That's one of his favorite things to do, playing with doors. :)

We had quite an exciting morning with our Little T. First we went on a safari ride at Great Adventure. It was a great morning to go because it was overcast (not too hot for the animals) and early enough that they'd be out roaming around...well, except for the big cats. They always seem to be sleeping!





Don't let Little T's expression fool you. He looks quite serious a lot when he is studying something and he enjoyed looking at all the animals. Some got a little too close for his comfort, though, and when that happened, he'd shut his eyes tightly!


Tomas showed us his ride-on jeep when we brought him back home. He was a little shy at first but he's quite proud of it. We had a great morning!

A Morning At The Lake

After playing at the playground, Little T and I went down to the edge of the water. I showed him how to toss stones into the lake. He loved it!

Weekend Snapshot #32: Cat Blogging Weekend

This weekend was pretty damp and dreary a good part of the time. Since I was achy with arthritis, fibromyalgia, my slipped and bulging disks and so on and feeling sorry for myself to boot I decided to amuse myself by taking pictures of the four footed gang for future posts. Here's a couple that didn't make the grade:




These are both of Cubby. I have tons and tons of better pictures of him. The first one looks goofy and the second one is too dark. Better luck next time!

Weekend Snapshot Memory #8

My son, AKA Will The Thrill, dressed and ready to do a magic show!

Weekend Snapshot Memory

Weekend Snapshot #6

Weekend Snapshot

One of my favorite things to do in the fall is to visit a family farm open to the public for picking pumpkins, hayrides and what have you. We finally had a perfect autumn like weekend and so on Sunday, we piled into the van and went to Johnson's Farm, about 40 minutes south of us.



Johnson's is a large farm and they have a lot of different activities, I was pleased to see ... at first. You could go on a hayride and either pick your own pumpkins or take the easy way out and just pick them at their market.



Here's the thing...they have a real racket going on and I bet they make plenty of money. The place was packed! However, instead of charging one admission price, you had to buy tickets to any of the activities you wanted to go to. They were selling 5 tickets for $13.75. There were 7 of us all together and we didn't want to do all five activities if for no other reason that they were for little kids, not adults--like the moonbounce. It cost us almost $21 just to get into the feeding zoo and would cost another $21 for all of us to ride the hayride, another $21 for the corn maze, another $21 for ...well, you get the idea.



We decided to go for the feeding zoo because we figured T would enjoy that the most. I think we were right--he loved feeding the animals!



This baby goat was standing on a big concrete sewer pipe that was in its pen. It wasn't being used for sewage or anything...I think it was there to act as a mountain? Goats like to climb!



The girls enjoyed visiting "the three little pigs"...they were not little!



Here Tomas was watching the ducks swimming around in a murky pond. I heard him say "water" and I wonder what he was thinking?



Cows slept in a shed in the same pen with the goats. They sure looked comfortable!



Tomas seems to be saying, hey, we need more food here for these animals!

Even though we didn't get to do everything I'd hoped we still had a great time! I'm still in the process of weeding through the pictures and labelling them on our photo gallery. If you're interested in seeing more of them, just click on this next picture!

Weekend Snapshot

I found a photo meme today called Weekend Snapshot and one thing that I like about it is that there is no theme. I felt it was a great way to start off my new blog.



This is me and


this is my hubby, TB, with our sweet little grandson, Tomas. Tomas is very dear to our hearts, a joy and a blessing. He is 3 and last year was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, which is on the autistic spectrum. In these pictures, T is in his own little world. He has so many different expressions and sometimes they come one right after the other.

On other days, like this one, he doesn't seem to notice the camera.