Overnight with Alexis

The last grandchild to have an overnight stay with us this summer was Alexis. I picked her up around noon on Friday and we made some stops on the way home.

Fashion Cents has become a popular local shopping place. I had never been there and neither had Alexis. She found a dress she liked and she told me that was unusual because she never finds anything she likes!

Leaving Main Street Closet with a bag of  treasures :)

Our last stop was Goodwill. 

Displaying her purchases...

...and showing off the dress. It fit her perfectly and she was especially happy with the hidden pockets.

Ice cream treat at Son's in Quarryville!

Alexis and I both like games so we played a few. This game was hard. You had to guess what the card was on your head by asking clues. We got a laugh out of this card that says Alexis is nuts!

And I was ketchup :)

Yahtzee!

In the morning Alexis chose a bacon and egg muffin for breakfast along with chocolate milk.

We had a special surprise for Alexis on Saturday morning. Steve picks up Amish during the week to take them to work. One of them has a riding ring and knowing that Alexis loves horses he asked if we could bring her over and let her drive a horse and cart around the ring. He was very happy to oblige and Alexis loved it.

Here the Amishman gives her instructions and he rode with her around a few times so she could get used to it. The horse's name was Diamond

Ready to go on her own!

And her she comes...along with little Benjamin who was very happy to ride along :)

She even got confident enough to instruct Diamond to trot!

Then she asked me if I wanted to ride with her.

Ready to go for my ride

Here we go!

Alexis was a great driver and it was actually a lot of fun! I'm so glad we were able to do this with Alexis.

Alexis enjoyed working the cash register at the store and she was very good at it!

We stopped at the Centerville Diner on the way home and here is the meal she chose. She ate every last bite!

And that's a wrap! We really enjoyed our individual time with each grandchild this summer and I believe they did too. Hopefully we can do it again next year!