Fun weekend...NO shoes required!

Mix water with grandchildren (2), family, friends, add some dogs (4), snails, exploring, puddles, & fishing with rain showers in between...I'd say it was a wonderful weekend! This was the first time our granddaughters came down to visit our new waterfront home... The first thing my oldest granddaughter told me was that she received a book in the mail that she had a drawing in. She was sooooo excited to share the book with her school teacher and classmates. And of course we were so very proud about it all! To read more about it please go to my Mud Puddle Girl blog spot here... You can read more about this wonderful book here. The rest of the weekend was filled with wonderful memories, lots of family & friends... The ducks on our dock were waiting for our visitors to arrive...And when they came they realized they had forgotten their shoes! But we told them that they didn't need shoes to..

Go crab fishing with their Paw Paw...

Climb the BIG tree in our backyard...

And you certainly don't need shoes to splash in muddles here and...

or here too...

And there are NO shoes required to find...

Snails from the water...

After all the dogs don't wear shoes...BUT you might want to wear shoes when the crab pot has a little visitor...

What's that?

A Maryland blue crab! The girls were thrilled. It was released back into the water...

Later in the day, after the granddaughters headed home, we met with the honeymooners and their family at a High Street festival... even a little rain didn't spoil some fun!

High Street Festival...crafts, food, music=Fun!

The honeymooners met us there... J & J (Joey & Jodi)

And to make the weekend so perfectly sweet our daughter in law's parents and grandparents came by our new home and gave us...

Jodi's parents gave us this beautiful water picture with some wonderful wine...and Jodi's grandparents Mary Ann & Howard gave us this beautiful flag with a pole we plan to display at our hew home....Such a warm, thoughtful, and wonderful family our son has married into.

We feel blessed....

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Away for a couple days...

...And when we got back into town I was visiting some of my favorite blogs & found I had won an award from Ginger...she is a very special friend I have met through blogging... (I'm the one with the glasses in red---I wear them to see the computer :) ))) Thank you Ginger!

I would love this cute~ sweet award go to Teresa who always has such a fun & interesting blog to follow~ filled with homesteading tips from garden harvests to even making paper. Her family is truly a hands on family on her beautiful homestead....

During the last several days...my husband & I finalized the purchase of a waterfront home, that one day may be our retirement home...Here are several pics of our first night/day on the water....

Our backyard as we watched our first sunset...

Moving "stuff" in...but we forgot one thing...

Oops...a coffee cup...my husband had to have his coffee in a wine glass from the night before...

The dogs head out to see the morning ducks...

Before we left I placed a fall wreath on the front door... hopefully the granddaughters will be with us next weekend. We can't wait to sit on the dock with them & fish & feed the morning ducks...

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Busy With Summer Days...

I know I haven't been able to post much because we have been trying to squeeze in all the summer days we can...family, friends, traveling to the eastern shore, and close to settling on a waterfront home...

There have been weekends with the grandchildren & granddoggies...

Lots of apple picking...

Learning the fine art of climbing a tree..

Granddoggie learns to swim & everyone is there to cheer the puppy on!

After months of just sitting in Buddy's new/old boat in our driveway (smile) it goes out in the water this weekend for the 1st time! Vroom......

And finally the backside view of the waterfront home we are about to purchase...I'll post more pics of this home and water when the purchase is final...Buddy always wanted a home on the water...it will be our little piece of heaven...a place where the door will always be open for all family & friends to gather~ and right off the dock are some of the best Maryland Crabs ready to be cooked!