Thanksgiving Photos - Part Two

Okay, now these pictures were taken on Friday and Saturday
during our trip to North Carolina:


The girls loved coming down this slide at the Fun Factory,
which was really neat because a few years ago they were afraid to go down it.



On the merry-go-round at the Fun Factory!
Cousin Will is in the red shirt, and the blurry boy is his brother Ben.



Here's Cousin Ben (not to be confused with our child, Baby Ben)
with his father, Todd, at a toy store in Highlands.

Todd is Baby Ben's Godfather.


Here's Baby Ben (and his daddy!) keeping warm at Jackson Hole,
a gem and mineral shop we went to.

Rachael told me yesterday that she wants us to do the same thing every year for Thanksgiving. I told her that would be easy for us -- we weren't the ones who had to drive 14 miles! :)

Thanksgiving Photos - Part One

If I counted correctly, we had 28 people at our Thanksgiving get-together in North Carolina last week.

I don't why, but I've tried and tried to post the photos and can't get Blogger to post more than four. So ... I'll make two posts. This first section is from Thanksgiving Day at Grandma Glo's house:


This is Cousin Camille, age 11, with Baby Ben



Sisters Anna and Diane holding their little cousins,
sisters Rachael and Rebecca



Cousins Megan, Garrett, Ben, Schuyler, and Rachael waiting their turn for the hayride



Cousin Steve taking the kids on a hayride!

Rachael actually fractured the tip of her finger Thanksgiving day when somehow a pool ball smashed it. A holiday with tons of relatives isn't complete without a trip to the Emergency Room, I guess! :)

Fortunately we went to the Orthopedic today and they said it should heal on its own in three weeks. They put it in a splint and wrapped it in a pink bandage, so Rachael was happy.

Our Fake Camping Trip

We spent the weekend at Vogel State Park, near Blairsville, GA, thanks to my in-laws, who brought their camper and rented a cabin for us. I would barely be up for "real camping" under any circumstances, and there is no way I would even consider it with three small children.

Here's Rachael playing miniature golf. It was the girls' first time playing and they loved it. It was, um, interesting watching them play, as they had no qualms about either picking the ball up, or just sort of pushing it along with their club.

I believe the girls said that Rachael was the Marshmallow Queen and Rebecca was the Marshmallow Princess. They made so many S'mores we couldn't eat them all.

Robert and I went for a hike around the lake.

Everybody loved the beach. I finally had to bribe the kids with chocolate to get them to go back to the cabin with me.