Art is Life is Art: Susan Reep Photo Art

This is me.  Bursting with happiness and also caught on camera by surprise.  Why am I happy?  It’s the third day of being in the mountains with six of my grandkids – just me and the grands!  We’ve been having so much fun that when we return we’re all checking into Laughter Anonymous.  As one grandson says, we need a laughter 12-step program – sometimes we laugh so hard it’s almost dangerous!  In a bit, I’ll explain – no, I’ll show you – why my Bakersfield Six have become my own six little Glamberts.  But first…

How can I be so lucky?  Three days, six kids, no disagreements.  Highlight of the morning was washing and drying the shirts we tie dyed yesterday and seeing how they came out.  I’m wearing mine – the least creative of the bunch.  Here’s the array.

Fantastic, huh?  We just followed the directions in the Tie Dye kit I bought at Michael’s.

When I ask one of the Colorado Three (my grandson in Colorado, who is three) (the Colorado Three becomes the Colorado Four in March) to give me his very best smile, this is what he does.  So we are all doing The Jackson Smile.

Look at the great job these two guys did on their shirts.

So – the TREASURE HUNT.  I had given the kids supplies they could use to make clues for a treasure hunt through the woods.  I also supplied the treasure, which I found on clearance at World Market.  The first team set out to plant their clues.

The new motto:  Why walk when you can run uphill? Why indeed?

Is there really a clue near this forest service bug trap?  Only one was brave enough to get it.

Treasure hunt successfully concluded with girls getting scarves and boys elephant banks.  I know my kids will love that – something else to sit around.

So what was left after a short rest?  THE GLAMBERTS!  Adam Lambert, move over.  (Well ok, no one can out-Lambert Adam) but the Bakersfield Six put on a show that anyone would be proud of.  Remember what I’ve been listening to hour after hour for the last two days?  “To the right, to the right, to the left, to the left…” and so on.  And on with the show!

Ok ok, I know what you are thinking.  They can’t be THAT good.  Well, you’re talking to a proud grandma here and in my eyes, they were perfection.

Fantastic.  We’ll be announcing tour dates soon.  Tickets will be available…ok, shake off the daydream, no tour.  No Glambertmania.  But I was so proud of my six little Glamberts.

Moving on to FOOD.  Food is always good.  The two biggest girls were chefs tonight.

They made a terrific beef stew.

It was a “Cow” themed meal and for dessert we had cow patties.  Yum!  Made from chocolate chip cookies and Reece’s Peanut Butter ice cream.  Do you think this was a big hit?  A big hit with me was how efficient these two girls were – they cleaned, cooked, and cleaned up.  It was amazing.  I have to say I got off easy in the meal department.  I first decided that they should make the dinners because I thought they’d have a lot of fun planning and doing it, and indeed they did.

Jean Luc would clean up, pack up, and go home as scheduled because we go to Disneyland on Saturday.  They’ll  be 20 of us – all family.  So stay tuned for news from the Magic Kingdom.

I don’t think life could get any better – really and truly.  I am blessed.

P.S.  The laughter part came from playing Catchphrase after dinner.  I don’t believe anyone could laugh as much and as hard as we did.

And tomorrow I’ll talk about a new collage I did these last three days.  Where did I find time?

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