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Below is a clip of Thanksgiving day. I was on call and this is what I came home to on one of the occasions where I stopped in for a few minutes. I love watching the kids having fun with Marsh and I love watching Marsh laugh like a little kid!! It does my heart good!!

Dad and Kids with Bandanas

Fun Times!

Busy Week!

The past week has been a little crazy here, as you can imagine. Nate had a party last weekend at the "Little Gym" and loved every minute of it! Zach watched patiently through the glass....
After a short week of school, we had 4 days off and enjoyed our time together. I was on call for some of Thanksgiving day, but we were able to squeeze dinner in at Jess' parents house. We had a great time! (other than the football injury! Thanks Jim!) Friday, with the help of the kids, we got the Christmas decorations up. Saturday was a lay-low kinda day because I had worked the overnight. We layed around in jammies all day and played games. Pretty, pretty princess was the big hit! As you can see, we enjoyed lolly pops while we played. Yesterday, we went to church and then we headed over the IKEA and had a great afternoon just wandering around, thinking about all of the things we could do in our house if we had some extra time and money!! HAHAH!! It is always nice to dream isnt it?? The boys had fun playing in the boxes while dad assembled some of the goodies we got. They dont need Christmas presents....just give them cardboard!!
Back to the grind, this fine, rainy, Monday morning. Lots to get done this week! Hope everyone is doing well!

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Brrr.....Chilly!!

Wow!!! It was a cold weekend in Chincoteague, but, boy, did we have fun!! We got there around 10pm on Thursday night and immediately kicked on the heaters. Everyone slept great!! Friday started out pretty cold, but the boys were outside with gloves and mittens....loving it! In fact, they went out on a golf cart ride, still in their pj's, with Pop-pop and Me-mom! We puttered around, attempted some fishing with Pop-pop (did I mention it was windy AND cold?!?!), had homemade chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese for lunch, went out to the beach (Cold, again!) and ended the day with bowling! (The kids ran around on the beach in bare feet if you can believe it!) Zach had sooo much fun bowling. He insisted on using the pink ball, which was 8 pounds, so by the end, he was putting it on the ground and kicking it down the lane. It was hysterical!! Saturday morning, we cleaned up around the camper and winterized it with hopes of being off the island by 3pm. We went out to the lighthouse around one and climbed all the way to the top!! Zach loved it! He was just happy to be able to touch the lighthouse, let alone, climb to the top! Smiles all around! He wouldn't let Marsh or myself even carry him....he had to do the stairs himself. We left there and went to get some lunch at our favorite restaurant, Maria's. I think we just weren't ready to leave because we went back out the beach for one last look (Kay had to go look for shells for a few minutes too!) and then we went back to the Creamery for our last ice cream of the season. It was 5:15 before we even started the trip toward home.
It was a great weekend away as a family and I am already dreaming of sunny, hot days on the beach next year. We feel so blessed to be able to "get away" for a few days and are grateful to God for all that He has given us!

Boys.....

Something has changed with my boys in the last two days.....
They have become wrestling, jumping, crazy fools!!! Is this normal??!!?? Is it the age difference? Is it the male DNA?? Help!!!
Tonight, I was cleaning up dishes and the boys were over on the couch, jumping on it, without the cushions. I looked over and Zach is standing on the end table making a running leap over the arm of the couch to the other side!!! oh my word!! What is up with these kids?!? Is this what my winter is going to look like since we will be confined to the house when it is too cold to be outside??

Just pictures

I am tooooo tired to blog and fighting my second migraine of the week. I think I will try to cure it with Halloween chocolate.....