Evan's Cub Scout Troop sang Christmas Carols at the retirement home down the street from our house last night. John took this picture with his phone. He said he did a really good job and the old folks loved it.
We surprised the kids with an overnight trip to the Great Wolf Lodge near Charlotte. We told them we were going shopping and then when we pulled into the parking lot Evan read the sign and they were so excited. This place was amazing and just the reward we all needed for a long, difficult and challenging year. The water park was fantastic and the restaurants and game room were a lot of fun. It definitely earns its 5 star rating for a resort. There aren't a lot of pictures because believe it or not, I actually joined in the fun!
Audrey is super excited to announce the arrival of her latest "babies". She recieved a set of twin American Girl dolls from Grammy for her birthday along with a kickin double stroller. She has named them John and Ally. She is in Heaven with these things. She loves their hair and that she can comb it. She got an outfit for each of them and we are going to take her to pick out a pair of pajamas for each one because she loves to put all her babies to bed at night and they have to have pajamas. What a great little mommy she is. Except when she sticks them in her play oven.
We had a great Thanksgiving with our family. The food was wonderful and it was great to just hang out and chat with everyone. The kids had so much fun running around and playing with their cousins. Audrey really took a liking to baby Jacob (my sister and brother in law's grandson). But when I asked her if she wanted a baby brother she said "no way". Good to know.
We're off to see the Wizard......................We took the kids to their first big theater show today. What a great time we had. Great seats in a beautiful theater that is a big part of Greensboro's history. The kids did great, even with the show lasting 2 1/2 hours. We had wonderful seats and the characters came out into the audience many times and Audrey loved waving at Dorothy (who she calls Lucy for some reason and Lucy even waved back a couple of times on her way past us). After we had a fun family dinner. What a great way to spend a Sunday. Definitely a big memory created today ... for all of us.
Aunt Bean spent the weekend with us to help celebrate Audrey's 3rd birthday. We had a great time and the kids really enjoyed her visit. Griffin was more than happy to keep Brenda company on the sleeper sofa at night. We spent most of Sunday on the Natural Trail with Grammy and the boys. The boys spent most of their time looking for things to launch into the now very high lake waters. It was a good 2 mile hike and a beautiful 75 degree sunny day.
We had a great birthday party today for Audrey at a place called Jump N Fun. She had 12 of her classmates there from preschool and 6 of her other friends and family members. It was a great crowd. I wasn't able to get any good pictures of all the jumping because of, ... all the jumping! I got a few of Audrey in the party room. It sure is hard throwing a party and also photographing it.
I have been taking pictures for others and have not gotten a chance to do any official (frame worthy) Fall 2009 pictures of my own.....until today. We had planned to go to the park and do them but decided to just stay in the backyard. I got a few that will be framed within the week.
I am upgrading to a new camera but will have to have an overlap period as the new camera I am getting is a bit different (Canon 50D) so I don't want to chance having some "jobs" and a camera that I don't understand.Then I plan to ebay the one I have now.....it has been a faithful friend. I have seen a lot through this camera.
