Grandma Boyd's House

 This rock (below) that Liv and Warner are standing on yielded many adventures for Pepper and Jaron growing up. They loved this thing. It used to have a cave on the other side of it that has caved in, which is too bad, but the kids still had fun exploring around on it.

 How cute are these little frogs from Grandma's garden?

 Aunt Linda and Aunt Becky with Liv and Warner.

 I love all the little Grandma Boyd touches that she has added to her garden. She either is given this stuff or buys it, and then she paints it to make it look cute. I love it. She has such a beautiful garden, which I imagine is pretty hard to do in New Mexico. I would like to spend a few days watching her and learning a thing or two from her about her garden. She gardens almost everyday, and is in super good shape.  I can't believe what good health she's in, as is my Grandma Pope who is 89 and gardens also for 2 hours a day. Man, maybe gardening is the key to staying healthy and strong and youthful.  Look at these lounging frogs. I love it.

 Boyd is named after this wonderful woman's family. It is Debbie's maiden name. So it was special to see his namesake holding him.

 Aunt Becky showed the kids a friendly little blue collard lizard. The thing was huge! Well, huge in my book. Warner was pretty excited about this little lizard friend.

I love that Grandma Boyd has this book. It's perfect. I'm going to have to look this one up and see if its still in print.

Let's see if I can get all the names straight in this picture. Starting from the top row left to right: Buster, Jaron, cousin Meagan, Aunt Becky, Linda, Michelle, Tom, and Michael ( I think). Second Row Grandma Boyd, Liv and Warner obviously. 

It was good times at Grandma Boyd's house. Grandma Boyd was very cute with the kids, and they especially loved Aunt Becky, who reminded them and me so much of Momma (to me) Grandma (to them) Brown, that it made us miss her even more than we already did and want to see her soon.  This family has a lot of love in them. I loved watching how they interact with each other in such a loving and serving way. They are good people, and we left their house filling fully loved. 

Also another quick thing I want to remember is when Uncle Tom was putting out his cigarette Warner was fascinated. He said to Uncle Tom "What are you doing?" Uncle Tom said "Oh, just putting out my cigarette" then leaning in closer to the burnt ash tray with the bud slowly burning out inches from his face, Warner said excitedly, "Can me try?"  It was so innocent and funny. Uncle Tom simply replied "Na kid. I don't think that's a good idea".  Good answer Uncle Tom.