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A Busy Thanksgiving Week

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To begin the week of Thanksgiving this year, we got out and decorated the house with Christmas lights.  Years ago, the family used to put up a ton of lights – including one year when we spent hours crawling around the roof hooking up lights everywhere.  Since then we have scaled back a bit, but we took advantage of after-Christmas sales over the last few years and stocked up on lights and decorations.  On Saturday and Sunday the boys helped pull them out and daddy put up two Christmas-tree-shaped light structures on the front of the house.

Tuesday night we traveled to New York to visit Gramma and Uncle Scott and it was a great time.  We did not take time to visit the city (that will have to wait for warmer weather) but we did stop by the beach to get out and stretch our legs after a long road trip.  On Wednesday night we celebrated Uncle Scott’s birthday.

We had an excellent Thanksgiving on Thursday (of course nobody thought to bring cameras) and enjoyed visiting with the whole family.  Uncle Pat, Aunt Penney, Kristin, Brandon, Mason and Amber all came up from Delaware.  Gramma cooked and we all ate until we couldn’t eat any more.

On Friday we headed back home and then on Saturday we did some more decorating for Christmas.  All of the tubs filled with decorations were opened up and up went the full Chrismas scene.  The tree, a Christmas village and all sorts of decorations now adorn the house inside and out.

Ahhh Vacation

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We took a family vacation this week and it was nice to get away. Since this blog has talked about our travels, here are some notes on this week’s journey.

The trip began with camping at Patriot Games V. They let the scouts camp at Fort Knox every other year and the Army brings out tanks and other equipment for the boys to play on (boys and Army trucks – fun fun fun). Jordan loved playing Army for a while and participating in the other events around the post. Daddy and Jordan camped out overnight with the scouts and had a great time. It only took 2 days for daddy’s back to recover.

Next on the travel planner was Nashville to visit Auntie and to see the dinosaurs. The animated dinosaurs used in the BBC film “Walking With Dinosaurs” are on tour in the US and we got to see them. Dinosaurs and Army tanks all in one weekend was really fun for Jordan (he seemed to like the dinosaurs a little more). We thought Sarah might be scared, but she loved the show and kept yelling “look” and pointing vigorously at them. She laughed at the baby tyrannosaurus rex and was not scared at all when the mommy t.rex came out and roared at the crowd.

Next, it was on to Gatlinburg for several days of recreation. We even found a few hours to visit with friends who were there as well. We also did a whole bunch of tourist-y stuff, like seeing the Aquarium of The Smokies (a family favorite) and walking up and down the main tourist trap shopping area. We even went to the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum, which Jordan thought was freaky and Sarah thought was boring – until they found a few exhibits they could participate in. We had a very relaxing time of family togetherness – wonderful!

Of course, as it cools off for the fall, we went to look at God’s wonder, the changing leaves in the mountains.

After Gatlinburg, we headed back to Louisville – Jordan had his final soccer game of the season and we wanted to visit Mammoth Cave (although we didn’t make it to the caves quite yet – maybe another time). All in all it was a wonderful vacation for the family. We had a great time just spending time together and looking at some very cool things.

Spring!!

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It is spring and the flowers are out. Sarah and Jordan enjoy playing on the swing set together (too cute for words). Mommy is teaching her some of the joys of spring including blowing bubbles. Daddy is showing her how to drive a go-kart (OK, I just took her for a ride, she won’t drive till next year, I promise)

Sarah is even getting used to going around with her arms uncovered which was a big no-no a few weeks ago. Little by little she went from sweaters to long sleeves to short sleeves to no sleeves. That is a big deal when we get into the heat of the summer.

Jordan is happy to join in the fun with Sarah too. He does a goofy dance or makes a funny face to get her to crack up. They sit and watch Sesame Street together all the time even though Jordan went off of Sesame Street 3 or 4 years ago. They enjoy double-teaming daddy for wrestling. Apparently, they both feel that daddy is a portable trampoline made equally well suited for 1-year-old or 8-year-old bouncing. Hmmmmm….

For Easter we got Sarah a nice dress and even got her to try on a few hats in the store. She loves hats for about five minutes and then off they go wherever she may be. That proves that she is related to Jordan – his coats, shoes and other various pieces of clothing are usually dropped at random around the house, cars, etc.

Actually it’s wonderful how it seems like we’ve had these children forever and how they get along like they’ve been doing it since birth. God has certainly blessed us as a family.