A Rapid Visit (the place, not the speed) :)

oh I'm so funny right?  okay, we'll move along.  Henry had an awesome time in the Black Hills last week playing with his grandparents and uncle Conor, and auntie Faith (we had a surprise visit from her while we were out there!)  He spent several days at angostura lake, swam, rode in the boat with grampa Kel, watched daddy do some lake surfing, we visited storybook island, went for stroller rides with gramma Deb, played with Sadie the dog, assisted in taking a few of uncle Conor's seniors portraits (if you would like to see how those turned out visit (www.shutterpoets.blogpsot.com), let's see...I hope I'm not forgetting anything.  It was a blast!

riding Eeyore at storybook island (it rained shortly after....coincidence?)

Dr. Seuss's cat in the hat read us a story!

chillin' on the beach...henry wrote his name in the sand because he's super intelligent like that

and then lounged in his little lawn chair

driving the boat with grampa

auntie Faith surprised us with a visit and held on to Henry in the boat so that mommy could take pictures of daddy...

doing this!

the wave and other recent developments

diggin' in the dirt

while we were at angostura lake, henry built a sand castle!  (mommy may have helped just a little)  maybe we have a future architect....or demolition man.  I think he had more fun destroying the castle than anything, and once he got a handful of sand, that fist was not going to open-he held on tight to every bit of grit he could gather!--thank goodness he had a bink in his mouth or he would have packed his cheeks with it too!  I can't believe I let him do this, but then again, boys need to get dirty sooner or later :) 

haha--he was having so much fun that he didn't even mind that his diaper was full of sand!  we took an extra long bath that day :)