Little Cowgirls and Sewers Too!

What do I want to be when I grow up??  For a week this summer Kamryn and Jentry stayed with us.  They were with us in July.  The week just flew by.  When they got tired of our house, they went to Great Grandma's and played cards and visited, then back up the hill they would come!

This time because there was a roping dummy close to the garage with ropes hanging off of the horns...LET"S LEARN TO ROPE!

 Okay, PopPop!  Let's get going!

It is pretty hard with two girls, but he is trying to get the stance, the arm, the wrist, you know--ALL of it!

One more time, look this way...

Kamy is pretty serious about this.  They so want to please their grandpa!

See what I mean about SERIOUS?

It is in the wrist...Cowboy loved showing the girls.  Wish they were here more often!  They went and twirled their ropes every day.  The men would straighten the ropes out a couple of times a day.  You know how hard ropes are to get back to the way they coil right!

Jentry and Kamryn each made reversible tree skirts that can turn into capes if they so wish.  I had the Christmas material here waiting for them to come.  Jentry is seven and Kamryn is nine and a half so the sewing abilities were different.  Kamy has sewn with me before, so I knew what she could do.  Attention spans aren't as long, so Jentry and I worked in small stages.  This grandma doesn't want to burn anyone out on wanting to learn to sew!!  Isn't that a sweet smile?!

See that smile of accomplishment??  It was funky stockings and a fun polka dot for the other side.

Jentry got hers finished also and it was green with ribbons, bells, and holly berries and the other side was red with gold throughout.  She was relieved to have hers done too!

Ready for bed and a play time with Miss Tiny toe kitten PopPop brought home...

Looks like they got plenty of vitamin D from the sun.  They play well together and we did many things.  It is hard to take a picture when we were all working!  They did dishes.  They traded washing for dish drying.  I had to let them...

They helped me get meals on as we had two extra men to cook for, so there was always something to do.  They checked books out of the library. 

One of the things I feel bad about is that they didn't get to ride horseback this visit.  PopPop was too busy to get that done.  AND, this is the first summer we haven't put up the hammock.  It was too chilly to begin with and then, after B.J. and Marsha and the girls were gone, we were thinking about other things and the girls didn't even bug me about setting it up.

So, I have blinked and summer is gone.  Grandies are in school and fall is here and we are still catching up on "summer" work.  We have bales to stack, cows to move, oh, it goes on and on.  Did a little canning of pickled beets and freezing of peaches and peach pie filling!  The pies are devoured around here!  I haven't even sewn a stitch in almost two weeks, so maybe I can squeeze in a minute tomorrow!