You've got to see this...

Okay, we took off for a few days and went to visit my parents and my grandparents. These are usually quick trips and this was no exception. We got to "little swamp" late on Thursday night and left late Saturday afternoon.
Now what do you do in a place that is remote? And by remote I mean you have one bar of cell signal and one of the local restaurants is the House of Pizza--which usually has specials like roast beef or seafood!!! We've never eaten there but we almost always check to see the daily special.
Now back to what to do....well you can play tennis--yes on real courts, or go for a walk in the woods--Steve saw 5 white tail this weekend or you can ride the "gof got"(that Casey for golf cart) to go see the "bock, bock" (Csasey for chickens)or the cows or you can try and help occupy Granny or visit with Granddaddy or play at Aunt Mary's (who always has a new toy or so for you).
There are a few things you don't do....
You don't run out of anything important because it's a long way to the store!!! You also don't make the cows moo because that scares Casey.
Shelby loves being there because Kokopat makes movies and takes pictures and guess who the star is? Yep Shelby!!!
Well Friday night on the way to dinner--at Granny and Granddaddy's--Kokopat was giving his "tour" (we ride in the gof got or the back of the Jimmy to dinner--it's not that far but it is DARK). Well when we passed a pen where my uncle is fattening up 2 bulls, KP said "On your left is the nativity. The cows showed up early this year." Shelby and Drew thought that was great and it gave Shelby an idea. We needed to do our own manger scene. So we planned to do it before we left on Saturday.
Saturday was a difficult day as Granny was not having a good day and when she is having a bad day it affects everyone. Well when she saw us "dressing" up she thought we were crazy but getting her outside with all of us decked out seemed to help her out. We should have done this earlier in the day. Sowith out further ado I give you the

Little Swamp Manger Scene

Landon as Baby Jesus
Casey as the angel
Shelby as a shepherd
Drew as a shepherd
Steve as Joseph
Tracie as Mary
Cows as cows

Okay you can stop laughing now. We really didn't do to bad with only a few minutes to come up with something for costumes!!! Drew was pretty creative with the "gold coin" belt that he used for a beard.

Right?!