Balloons and Chocolate

Summer time is here and we will be having a few of our Grandsons for a about a month . 

 Right now Adrian is visiting and we have been doing some fun things.  Most of them his idea.

Today we made chocolate bowls.

We started with  some water balloons.

Minus the water of course.

We blew them up and dipped them in melted chocolate.

After we let them cool in the fridge for a bit, 

we took them out and popped the balloon so we could pull it out.

Oops!  some of the balloon stuck. 

No worries, we scrapped it out with a spoon.

Chocolate bowls ready to fill.

We chose some vanilla ice cream, strawberries,

whipped topping and of course, 

MORE chocolate!

Roxy a.k.a. Roxanne, Roxster, Roxy Doxy

On January 14, 2015 we gained a new member of our family, Roxy.

Its kind of like gaining a toddler and a sassy teenager all in one.

Lets just say that she was a little more than I bargained for.

But she LOVES to go for rides

 So today I took her to the river.

and she loved it!

"That was fun Mom!"

Happy dog

Shake it off

Wait! Who is that?

This is Alex. He was making his first solo canoe trip down a 92 mile stretch of the Wisconsin River.

He planned on it taking about 2 weeks. Unfortunately , a dam up river opened up and the river is high and swift.  A lot of the large sand bars that he had planned on stopping at are 6 feet under water.  

So, he decided it might be best to stop after day 3 and try again another time.  

I dont make it a habit to stop and talk to random people.  He saw Roxy playing in the river

and asked me if I knew where the nearest pay phone was. 

 His service provider didnt cover this area and he needed to make arrangements to get picked up.

So I let him use my phone.  He called his Mama. She is picking him up in the morning.