Happy Turkey Day!!!

Hope that you have had a relaxing Turkey Day. We made ours busy by traveling this morning. We left before 8 am heading to the lake to be with Derek's Parents. Enjoyed raking/blowing leaves (Derek and the youngest 2 kids along with Peque(Melissa's brother) and Dad), cooking (Mom, Grandma, Melissa, me and sometimes the girls), and visiting with everyone including Mom's brother Ben and his girlfriend Beth. It was 12 of us in a single wide trailer with 3 Jack Russell Terriers and a Rottweiler-Doberman mix. Fun times keeping our plates from being snacked on. Luckily the dogs weren't there during the cooking process. They arrived just as we were getting ready to eat. Enjoyed a full menu of Turkey, Ham, Stuffing (with and without onions and celery) Potato stuffing, Sweet Potatoes (with and with out cranberries and oatmeal), White Corn, Green Bean Casserole, Lima Beans, Mashed Potatoes, and (the kids favorite) Cranberry Sauce (with and without berries in it). Finished off the meal with a Cinnabon Apple Pie and of course a PUMPKIN PIE!! YUMMY!!!! We ate till stuffed and enjoyed each other's company. The kids did really well entertaining them selves. I was happy to see that Aric and Dehlia were helping to blow the leaves down to be burned and spent at least 20 minutes playing with Dad's Tape Measure. They were measuring everything. We left around 4 or so (I think). The sun was setting making a beautiful picture in the sky. Had to snap a picture it was so pretty.


Had a smooth ride home. Came home and let the kids watch the end of the movie that they had gotten half way through at the lake, then put them to bed since they were tired. We will leave tomorrow morning after cleaning up the house a bit to go to VA to visit my parents and grandmother for the weekend. Will head back here on Sunday morning to get ready for a busy week.

Had a good amount of showing , but no takers yet. It is getting tiring keeping this house cleaned up all the time, but will be worth it when it sells. Heading to Lake Wylie on Friday to have our preconstruction meeting and Derek's Christmas party for his new group that he's in. Will be nice to let the kids see where the house will be (other than in pictures and us telling them about it) and to meet the other people that Derek will be working with when he transfers down completely. His new boss is really nice. He has told Derek to take his time getting down there. Derek can stay until we all are moving down. Now just need to decide if we are going to try to move down before hand and rent something or if we want to hang out here in FV til the house sells or gets bought out. Decisions, decisions....

4th of July....

We spent at the lake. Derek's parents have a place on Roanoke Rapids lake that they go visit peoidically so we decided to pick up Grandma at 8:30 am and head up there to spend the day. We got there and Aric immediately wanted to go fishing. Derek took him down to the dock and began to fish. The girls wanted to go into the lake, so they got on their swim suits to play on the small shore that is there. I went down to go and put some sunscreen on the kiddos and as soon as I got it on Dehlia and she got back into the water, she was screaming that there was an Ant on her. My

Aric's fish....
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goodness. If she could just get a little bit more annoying!!! She decided that she was done and headed back up to the house. I finished Madison and she went back to the water. I went up on the dock to where Aric and Derek were fishing and had not even finished putting sunscreen on Aric and then Madison started in that there was a bee buzzing near her and that she was done! AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! I just wasted my time putting sunscreen all over those girls!!!!!! Here's one of the many fish that we caught at the lake. None of them were much bigger than this, so they all got thrown back, but we had a good time drowning the worms. Aric reeled in a good many of them. He was so excited everytime that there was a fish on the other end of the line. he has somewhat learned how to cast the line out too. Got him

Reeling one in....
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practicing that a lot too. We would cast out his line and hand him back the pole, and he would be saying, "I caught a fish!" and start reeling in the line. Here's Aric reeling in a fish!!
Unfortunately, 9 out of ten times that he did this, there was NO fish. Therefore we would have to cast out the line again. I hope you can guess what would happen next. :) He is too cute thank goodness. While Derek had him downthere on the dock, he would sit right beside Derek "criss-cross applesuace" and not move a muscle til he "had a fish". Can't wait til he gets a little bit older and we can explain to him that fishing at high noon isn't going to work real well. The fish don't really like the hot sun. They tended to hide under the dock next door, so that is where we started aiming our line. Got the line stuck on the deck a few times too!!
Here's what Derek would do while he was over on the dock next door. Deck Surfing!!!! The dock is REALLY wobbly. Derek could just walk down the step and you could see the dock moving all around. I went over there one time and was really afraid that the dock was going to come down!!!

Derek deck surfing.....
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