The mother ship has landed!

It all began when papa showed the kids a  weather balloon parachute he found out in the pasture.  The kids had all sorts of questions...."where did it come from" "was it from mars" "what does the tag say"....well according to Hope & Cayden the tag said "warning! asteroid"....this in turn got our wheels spinning.

Late Saturday evening when ALL the little kids had gone to bed, Stephanie & I got a great idea.  The parachute must have some use in playing a trick on the littles. Sooo, on Saturday night a spaceship landed in Grammie & Papa's backyard. The parachute was hanging from the archway to the garden & right in front of it was a double rock ring where the spaceship must have landed.

The kids were all shocked to wake up Sunday morning & find out that aliens had come. 

I didn't get a picture but there were EVEN black skid marks on the roof of the garage where the spaceship must have skidded

Check out the amazing double rock circle formation. Prestyn tried to step inside & we warned him not to, as the Martians would know & any that were left on earth would NOT be happy.

We then ate breakfast & when papa came in he informed us that he had found the mother ship & that after church & lunch he'd take us all out to see it.

So after lunch we all piled on the 4-wheelers & headed out to see the spaceship.

Papa took us on a trail ride to looks & see if we could find any alien tracks.

Then he brought us to the mother ship! Wow, the children were amazed. They were also a little trepid at approaching the mother ship.

So, papa, Charlie & I walked up to the spaceship with the kids & took a listen to see if there were still any inside. We tapped, and amazingly they tapped back! The kids even looked in a small hole & saw alien eggs! How amazing it was!  Sidney was scared so she stayed back on the 4-wheeler with Grammie.

We tried lifting it up to see if there was more evidence underneath but we couldn't budge it.

After we looked at the spaceship we heard a ding over by these other alien abandoned ships.  The kids went to check it out, with some comfort of having papa by their side.

We even found a trail where the aliens had walked & even had broken grass blades.  When Papa & I found this we called the kids to come check it out! When Cayden & Prestyn were on their way & a few feet away there was a sudden noise & Prestyn bolted running back to Grammie & Auntie Steph, while Cayden said he didn't want to come & and started breathing heavily like he was worried.

We let them believe all of this was true for most of the day & around supper time we sat down & asked them all if they thought that Aliens were real? Then we explained how the rocks got into formation & how the parachute had "landed" and where the "spaceship" was from (dad's old satellite dish), and answered all their questions.  We also explained that the noises by the bins were from Charlie throwing rocks & the path was from the cows who had gotten out. 

They all acted like they had already known & were just playing along with us!  

It turned out to be so much fun & rather hilarious!  What a fun time!  Now don't worry, nobody is sleeping with tinfoil on their heads! LOL.