Painted Rocks

A few weekends ago we had some visitors from the village come over to our house to paint rocks.  We had been visiting their house to get some tamales from Dora their mother.  It's so funny how children are children everywhere.  I remember when the boys were very small and whenever we had company they always wanted to share things with our visitors.  They would bring out all kinds of toys and books and school work for people to oooh and ahhhh over.  In Buena Vista it is no different.   As we were standing in the drive way the kids started bringing out things for us to look at.  There was a plastic car with no wheels, a sea shell, I think an item that was a dog toy and then we had rocks!  My family knows that I am always picking up rocks, pinecones and sticks.   Diego is a fellow rock hound.  He brought out a huge bag of rocks and we sat down in the dark driveway and he started sharing.  I was ooohing and ahhhing all over the place.  Dora smiled and brought out a chair for Dennis to sit in.  By the time we left they had given me a bunch of cool rocks and a plastic toy harmonica.  In return I promised that they could come over and paint rocks  the next weekend.

We set up a table right out front in the shade and
got started before it got too hot.

This is a special rock for Dennis because it was his birthday!

The girl in pink is Lucia, behind her is sister, Thalia, and Diego
is standing next to me.

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After eating hot dogs for lunch, watching part of Lilo and Stitch and Skyping with Ben, Memory and Benaiah in Tennessee, we took the kids back home.

Diego and Thalia lined up the rocks on their porch.

We are laughing because Thalia is taking the picture!

Thalia is one of these full-on huggers.  She almost knocked Dennis
down the other day.  Note the rock in the window.

Because it was Dennis' birthday he got to pick a dessert.  He saw this cake on Facebook and wanted me to make it for him.  It has whipped cream for frosting and toasted nuts sprinkled on top.  But the big surprise is that the cake is actually watermelon!  Of course the Facebook one was all pretty with berries but ours was very yummy.  We shared some with John and Beate the next day and it was still good.

I will have another blog tomorrow showing the porch going up!

Love you guys!