Our very enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend with all our
kids/grandkids is over but what a memorable time it was!!! Sooo thankful we were all together and loved
every minute! I’m starting this blog
at 9:15 AM Monday as Mark and I are truckin’ down south with Daisy pulling Toad
heading to Florida. We hope to do half
or more of the trip today.
What a treat to have sunshine and dry pavement after the
icky day last Tuesday for traveling. After
that nasty day, it was sunny and gorgeous every day, but some mighty COLD nights! Here’s a brief recap of the past few days….
Thanksgiving….Brooke’s
parents, Bob and Judy, brother, Scott, sister-in-law, Leigh and Caroline and
Cooper arrived and we all (22) enjoyed a bountiful feast at the Catawba Country
Club. What a spread….and beautifully
decorated for Christmas. Everything
was sooo good and then back home for naps, boys played outdoors, and eventually
poker and euchre. We dined on all kinds
of yummy hors d’oeuvres for our evening meal.
Friday…we were
all up, dressed and off to have Miss Blair baptized at St. Aloysius with Deacon
Tom doing the honors. Drew is Blair’s
Godfather and Aunt Leigh, her Godmother.
“Blair Bliss” was just a perfect little angel throughout the ceremony,
including pouring 3 scoops of holy water over her head. After a bunch of pictures, we went back
home for lunch and then a leisurely afternoon of more games, including
dominoes. I brought some solid
chocolate “domino” treats from Lisbon for prizes whenever someone went
out. Kids were sooo rambunctious, so
Davis had the bright idea to duct tape their mouths (his, Liam, Connor and
Brady’s) and see how long they could go without talking and then each would get
a chocolate prize! We adults enjoyed
the peace and quiet and by golly, those boys made it thru, ripped off the duct
tape and enjoyed their domino treats!
Annette made delicious lasagna for dinner.
Blair Bliss on her baptism day
Blair and Mommy
Blair and her grandparents
Mark and I with our grandchildren
Our kids (holding shutter-fly books I made from our NC vacation this past summer)
Saturday...Ryan
left at 5 AM for Pensacola. Bob and Judy
came. The kids played outdoors a big part of the
day, along with Patrick and Philip. The
big news today is that Blair rolled over for the first time and then did it
several times from back to tummy! What
fun we had with she and Luke. We gals
played euchre and I went to 5:15 Mass with Brady, Anne, Patrick and boys. We celebrated Drew’s 14th
birthday with white chicken chili, assorted yummy cupcakes and presents.
Our "Drewby" is 14!!! WOW....
Liam, Connor and Brady have spent the past
3 nights on Daisy (along with watching a movie each night), but tonight, Liam and Connor
are inside the house as they are leaving very early tomorrow for home. Brady, Drew and Davis spent the night with
us and watched “Mighty Ducks” with Grandpa.
Sunday…Anne,
Patrick and boys left at 5:30 AM…..rest of us slept in and then all went to
church at 11:00 while Brady, Annette and I stayed home with the babies. After lunch, Philip and Annette got their
car packed up, loaded Luke up and off they went spending the night in Savannah Anne and all arrived home safely in the
early evening! Michael opened his birthday gifts from us (just a little early, but we won't be with him on the 12th, so....)
Monday…said our
goodbyes to Michael, Brooke, boys and Blair.
BIG thanks to them for hosting all of us and what a grand job they
did!!! Brooke took boys to school, I fed Blair her
bottle while Mark got Toad hooked up to Daisy and we were off at 8:00. Good day for traveling with not much traffic
and lots of sunshine. Felt so good to
step out of Daisy in Walterboro, SC where we had lunch and got gas. We were 50 miles from FL when we turned on
the air conditioning and then traffic picked up, too. Philip checked
in around 2:30 and they were almost home!
Tonight we are at the Stagecoach RV Park near St. Augustine,
FL. Since we are several miles from
the historic area (which we both love), decided to eat close by at a Ruby
Tuesday. Long day of travel (460
miles) and about 4 hours coming tomorrow till we get to Lukeville!
Good to be back in the land of palm trees but hard to
believe it’s already December. The Christmas
lights and décor are everywhere – always seems strange to us with the warmer
weather. But the nice weather will be
short-lived as Wednesday we fly home and going to be getting some good
old-fshioned IL December weather – COLD and
maybe SNOW?
I have lots more pictures, but having S L O W internet here in the park, so this is it for tonight!
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