Papa's Shop

Three little boys came to stay with us this past weekend while their Mommy and Daddy were off on the other side of the world on their trip to Paris. I drove up to Carefree to their other Grandparents house first thing friday morning to get my oldest 3 grandsons. We decided to make a stop on our way home to see Papa at his shop.....the following gobs and gobs of photo's are from the fun we had in the 2 hours we were there. First thing Papa did was show them his HUGE VACUUM ( dust collector!) How fun to watch all the wood shavings and sawdust just go right up that vent!!!! time to move on but they could have done that for hours on it's own!They all decided they wanted to build something...Papa pulled out some wood and they each got to build a box.
Ethan getting ready for some loud noise from the saw! He turned 3 this summer and is Mr. independent and so ready to be a big kid!
Here is Garrett, he turned 5 this summer and informed me he's gotten his kindergarten shots so he's ready for school next year!
Aiden our 2nd grader is 7 and has a mouth full of teeth of every size with some gone, some coming in and some part way up, so cute!
They all got to use the power nailer and nail their box together...
Long post I know but how many 3 year olds get to sit on Papa's work bench and help nail a box! It was a very special time for Papa too!

Look it works to sit on ...
Aiden checking his out to stand on...
Garrett came home and immediately put all kinds of things inside his, all his little animals and special things he'd brought along.
Then even more fun....every little boys dream.....riding on the fork lift!
Making the forks go up and down, Papa found all kinds of things that "just needed" to be moved, so they hauled sheets of wood from one side to the other...
Made the forks go up and down....do you think Garrett is having fun?

Ethan ready for his turn...
Lots of fun moving those levers...

Ethan you did a great job!

Aiden getting his turn, they got to go outside....
and run those forks way up as tall as the building!


They moved Papa's truck tool box....and yep they could have done that all day too!
What fun was that! Fun memories in the making for these little guys!
We left Papa and went on home to see what other things we could do on our fun day! More photos of that to come!