One of the things that Heath's family introduced us to years ago was Lamar's Doughnuts. They really do make some amazing baked goods and we LOVE their apple fritters. They are still our favorite of all the places we've tried them. All of their other products are also delicious - well, at least the ones we've tried! Emerson and I both were anxious for Papa to get around this morning so he could go pick some up for our breakfast.
Today we plan to spend the day with Heath and his family. Their boys are growing up so fast. Abram is 10, Gideon will be 9 in just a little over a month, and Roman is 7. Abram is 5' 2", and looks much older than he is. They remind me a lot of Dean's boys when they were younger.
Emerson woke up not too long after we got up. We cuddled for awhile until she was fully awake. She had lots of questions about everything - she's really in that Why? stage. Papa finally left to go get our doughnuts and we thoroughly enjoyed them when he returned.
Jarred and Andrea picked Emerson up around 9:30. It was 10:45 before we made it to Heath's. Dean helped Heath with a few projects and I played cards with Roman and Abram - Skipbo. I don't think I've ever played it before but it was a fun game. Roman won the first game and Abram won the second. Afterwards I went outside with them and we shot baskets, and played PIG and HORSE. Papa joined us towards the end once he and Heath managed to get their lawnmower running.
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| Roman and Abram |
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| Roman on his cool bike that lets him turn complete circles. |
Of course I lost those to Abram, but I was surprised I even managed to make several baskets since I'm not very athletic - especially at basketball. But we had lots of fun and that is what matters. It was also some good exercise which I really needed.
For lunch we all rode together to McAlister's Deli. We really like this place. Dean had a McAlister Club and I had a Turkey Peppercorn Sandwich. They were both very good and we really love their sweet tea. Lunch and dinner conversations are always interesting with kids - nothing outstanding, just fun!
It was well after 2-2:30 before we returned. We hung around for awhile longer visiting some more. I took a few pictures of Gideon and some of his favorite things. He is a whiz at putting Lego sets together. I can't remember the number of hours he spent on this but I think they said about 12-14 hours over a few days. The age range for this particular Lego set was 14+. He loves music and recently got a guitar. Shortly before we left he came out to the living room with a rubik cube that he likes to work with.
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| Gideon - I have no idea how many pieces are in this Lego spaceship - but it's amazing that he could put this together on his own. He's put many sets together over the years. |
When we left their house, we headed to Best Buy to look at some printers. We really didn't find anything we liked that well, at least for the price I was hoping to pay. They do have a good selection. We'll check Walmart one day this week and I'll also take a look on Amazon. Our next stop was Lowe's. We bought a "lock" to put underneath the table to hold each side of the leaf tight to the table so it does not come apart when we are traveling or I am using it.
By then we were both tired and just wanted to head back to Bentley. Dean messed around some with the TV. He downloaded the Dish Anywhere App to the Amazon Fire Stick and we discovered that our Dish Tailgator Receiver is not compatible with the app. We can use the app with the laptop just fine but that requires an HDMI cord strung across the room - which can be done - just a bit of a pain to mess with on a regular basis. We had to call Dish to find this out, but while on the line I also complained about channels not coming in well - specifically HGTV and The Food Channel. Of course they will send a report to a tech and have them get back with me. Our Tailgator is 4 years old. I imagine its "out of date" and our option will end up being upgrading to a new one. We plan to use the Firestick with HULU and Amazon Prime as much as possible during the month of April and see how well it works for us - we might even extend that into May since we will be camping in at least 8 different spots in KS, OK and MO during that time. It should give us a pretty good idea how well it will work. If we like it well enough we may drop Dish altogether. We can always upgrade to a different Dish setup down the road if we determine at some point the streaming does not work for us.
We settled in to watch the KU Jayhawks play basketball while enjoying our leftover BBQ and Chinese meals. Both still tasted pretty good. Unfortunately, the Hawks got off to a slow start and lost, even though they worked hard to make a comeback.
We didn't last too long after the game was over before we headed to bed.
Happy Easter to you and Dean, Cheri. Is that Dean in the picture tossing the basketball? I had to look twice, both Bill and I think it looks like Bill, same clothes and everything! :)
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Yes that's Dean. Isn't that something they look that much alike. We had a great day! Thank you. I'm behind on reading all of the blogs I follow. I hope to spend some time tomorrow catching up. Only 3 days left here but we are busy, busy, busy a good part of the time. But we are having fun!
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