Nana's Ginger Bread Houses for Kids

Nana has the porch table all set up to make ginger bread houses. However, since our main particpants are three years of age or less we will be using graham crackers instead of ginger bread.

















Here is the youngest participant in Nanas little project. Here he is with his Mom, they are getting ready to start building.






















Here is Jack with his Mom and Dad. He is the older participant in the group. He is a real busy body and very intelligent. He caught onto the project really quick, those kndergartner teachers better get ready for this fellow.


















Everything he is using is tasty to both adults and children. Much of the time, one hand was decorating and the other hand was filling someone's mouth.






















Isaac really liked his sprinkles, chocolate chips and generally everything else used to put these things together.


















This ginger bread house looks like the real thing to me. Plus everything was fresh and edible. Another successful projest from the fantastic Nana and a great time was had by all.






















Isaac in the middle of building a ginger bread house. You can see that he is very intent on the task at hand.






















Here is Nana with Mom and son, everyone had a great time.


















This is the Nana with her grandson Jack and his Mom. It appears that they had a great time. I don't think it was just eating the candy, I think they enjoyed actually putting the things together.


















Here is one of the finished results. I don't know who made it. As I write this, evryone has gone home and we have four of them on the dining room table. But everyone including that fantastic Nana had a great time.

Isaac's First Hayride

A kiss from the boy to his Mom, just to show that he is having a really fun time.


























Here is Isaac with his "Nana". They are looking for any adventures that may be heading their way while touring the farm.





















A kiss for the "Nana" from Isaac



















One of the handsome men from this family. He comes from a long long line of very handsome men, but I digress and must move on.






















Here he is checking out the straw in the hay wagon. he has yet to learn the difference between hay and straw.























Cows seen during the ride around the farm.



























The beautiful "Nana" and her grandson Isaac enjoying the hayride






















There they are again, I love this woman. She makes one of the best Nanas I have ever known.






















Every farm has fall decorations visible for you to take pictures of. Here is Isaac satisfying the wishes of his elders to let them get a picture or two.



























OK, so he didn't really pose. I shot about 25 pictures and these two were the only good ones. That, however, is the beauty of the digital camera. If you shoot as fast as possible while you have the kid on the background the law of averages will sometimes give you a decent picture after judicious cropping. Maybe.

Great People in My Life

This is the one who started it all. She brought most of the "GOOD" things into my life. Everone shown below are her "people". She is the McGee, the pack leader, lover of all, and everyone's consoler regardless of their problems.

This is the Magical Nana at work. Here she is acting the part with one of her "people" at the Pima Air & Space Museum outside Tuscon, AZ.



Here is one of those "GOOD" things. The families' longest lasting college student who finally graduated after numerous Army Reserve deployments, a marriage and her son. She is the mother of two of the greatest grandchildren ever.



This is our oldest grandson (Numero Uno), he helped his mother work her way through college. Without him, it would have been a lot less work. He is a lot like his mother was when she was little, very liberal in the outfits he chooses to wear. Mom thought this was a Halloween outfit but from what I understand he thinks its for playing in now and he wants Mom to make him a Halloween outfit.



This was the family before the addition of the latest little fellow.



This is our third grandson but he is grandchild number four. He came along to make sure mom had something to do in case she ever thought of getting a master's degree. He is there to help his big brother and dad help mom.



This is the most recent picture of the new fellow. As you can see he is now getting into the smiling stage.



These are the two that helped get the mom through college. You can just see "help" emanating from the both of them, it just kinda pours out all over.



And here we have another "GOOD" thing in my life. She is in a difficult field, Army Intelligence......as a retired Navy E-9 I will just let that one lay right there. She ia also the full-time mom of another fantastic grandchild (number 3). This picture was taken upon graduation from MI school before she qualified "AIRBORNE".




This is her son "Dogbowl", he is a thirsty sort of lad that never misses an opportunity to quench his thirst.



This is Dogbowl with his Dad. They have a lot of fun with each other.

This is the "bus" that Dogbowl's dad drives for the US Army when he is at work. When you drive one of these, people get out of your way with little arguement.



Another "GOOD" thing is my wife's oldest daughter shown here with her husband and daughter who are shown together down below. Mom and dad both work in the news media and seem to be having a great time with their daughter who happens to be at this time our only granddaughter and also grandchild number two..



Mom and daughter having a good time in Jacksonville, FL.



Dad and daughter on a field trip to old St Augustine, FL.



This is my oldest son. He joined me in another life many eons ago. This kid should have been a veterinarian the way he takes care of animals. He raises Lhasa Ahpsos andhas adopted almost every stray or injured animal he comes across. If you don't meet his criteria, he will not even sell you a "for sale" dog. He is a really "Good" kid.



I also have another daughter, but I am having a hard time finding any recent pictures of her. More on this later.

THERE THEY ARE !!!!!!!!

This picture was taken of my 1stLT daughter as her "chalk" made their graduation jump at the US Army Airborne School, FT Benning, Ga. She was number 13 in her chalk. I can not identify her exactly but I counted back from the picture of the Jumpmaster checking his aircraft and I believe she is in this picture. The body english of the jumper just out the door is the one I believe is her. If not, she could be the one tumbling below the aircraft. As the Dad, I pick the one just out the door.

The LT landed safely where her Dad, Master Chief, USN, Submarine Service, retired, pinned on her wings. She then proceeded to pin three of her fellow AIRBORNE mates who had no family members present at the graduation.



The camera was a Canon Digital Rebel with a 75-300mm Canon Image Stabilized lens. The aircraft was above 2000 feet and at least 1500 feet in front of me. Love those digital cameras.


AIRBORNE

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The Old Salt with his grandson in southern Arizona

Two adventurers in a foriegn land where you can't even lean on a tree. The blades of grass are at least a mile apart. It's warm here but you really don't sweat a lot except maybe the part my grandson is using for a saddle. At least I hope that was sweat.