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| What a beauty! |
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| Cousins! |
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| Six of the eight of us. |
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| Getting started at Grandfather Mountain. |
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| A few minutes later (and a tad higher up), had to add hoods and more layers. Brrrr. |
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| The boys did such a great job hiking. |
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| SO windy up there! |
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| Drew and George were brave enough to keep hiking past my idea of the "save zone." I couldn't even look. They took some nice photos though. |
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| Beautiful view but I'm glad David and I weren't there. The wind was whipping like crazy up there and these two are standing at the edge of a cliff. |
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| My guys on the Mile High Swinging Bridge. |
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| Sweet cousin Stephen. |
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| Arriving at Tweetsie Railroad. David was timid so I had to get in the picture too. David is still hanging on tight to my leg. |
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| Thomas!!! With tickets to "A Day Out With Thomas" you ride the train for 30 minutes or so and then have tickets to the park. |
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| Taking the chair lift to the other section of Tweetsie. |
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| There were lots of rides for tots. Fun for sweet David. |
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| Petting zoo. |
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| Drew screaming for a change. He always asks why I scream on rides - this time it was his turn! |
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| Having fun! |
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| Love this photo. |
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| The boys got weapons at the gift shop. |
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| We had to have one more yummy barbecue meal on the way out of town. $3.99 for this kids meal, drink included! Unbelievable. Won't find that kind of bargain in Cary. |
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| What a view. We stopped a couple of times on the road to enjoy the gorgeous scenery. |
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| Posing in front of the fishing boat later that night. We survived! |
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| The crew! |
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| Enjoying a beautiful sunset. |
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| Boarded the ferry and headed home. |
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| Till next year... |
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| Saturday started out with a birthday party at Frankie's Fun Park. David is pumped about his tickets! There was pizza, cake, laser tag and tons of fun games. Whew! Just getting started... |
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| Straight to Drew's last soccer game. Had to get Drew changed in the car. Drew scored a goal to finish the season. Check out his cute little team! |
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| Getting his trophy with assistance coach Brian. |
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| David was so proud of Drew getting a trophy! |
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| Drew was thrilled to show off both of his soccer trophies, one from the fall and the one from this season. He asked me to take the picture and send it to Day Day, CC and Me-Ma. So, here you go... |
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| Then it was off to another birthday party. This one was for one of Drew's schoolmates. It was Batman themed (can you tell?). They were SO nice to include David in the party! At first he was shy but as soon as the birthday boy's Grandma offered David an extra t-shirt and mask, he was all in. Games? Food? You bet! David talked about it the rest of the weekend. |
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| We got home at 6:30 after a stop at the grocery store. I was the only tired one as the boys started playing with neighbors right away. I was hoping for a movie on the couch but no go. In this pic Drew and Andrea are acting like they are on a date. She made a flower out of duct tape like it was a corsage. Then she made a bow tie for Drew. |
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| "My have bow tie too!" |
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| Sunday we played at home for a long time before going to the park. Had to share this pic of my little slugger. Since Drew started t-ball, David asks to play a lot. He has quite the swing! |
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| David's ready in the outfield. |
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| We met our friends Kristen, Nathan and Ben at the park. David took off running toward the woods. When I caught up with him he showed me his shirt "King of the castle." Yep. |
As I mentioned in the last post, David spent a few days at my parents house. As expected, he was spoiled rotten with fun, favorite foods and affection. Mom sent me a picture the first morning of David eating powered donuts - his 1st choice for breakfast. And that was just the beginning. They went to the beach, played lots of games, and chatted A LOT. Mom and Dad got a big kick out of David's talking. See, around here, he can't get a word in because Drew talks non-stop. Every once in a while he will interrupt and say "Hey! I need to talk at you." Yes, he says "at" instead of "to," that wasn't a typo. Then he says one sentence, at best, and goes back to sucking his thumb and listening to Drew. Well, since Drew wasn't there, supposedly David talked non-stop. They honestly said he never quite chatting. I believe them because every time I called I could here him going a mile a minute. And the sweet thing is, Mom said he talked about Drew most of the time. My brother this, my brother that :) Mom and Dad raved about David's visit, letting me know that he's not only adorable but also super smart and sweet. Isn't it wonderful that grandparents always make you feel so good about your kids? When I called to check in, they shared cute David stories... ~ David was naming his whole family on his fingers, raising each one and saying our names. Mom asked him who was counted on his pinky and he looked at his pinky and said, "Mine's not pink, mine's white." ~ David still says "my" in place of "me" or "I." He was singing some songs and Daddy thought it was precious when David sang "Twinkle twinkle little star, how my wonder what you are." ~ David was playing a card game with my parents. When Mom asked him to draw a card, he said, "My don't have a pencil." Hee hee! Love that sweet boy. We missed him so very much! My parents stuck around through the weekend. Me-Ma came to visit too and we had a wonderful Mothers' Day at out house. The Watson's came as did Mae Mae and Mel Mel (Uncle Ralph and Stephen were at a baseball tournament). We had a yummy meal and enjoyed a wonderful day celebrating our amazing Mom's!  |
| We met my parents at Firebirds for lunch and to get David back!! Course he wanted to still be with CC. |
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Can't get enough of that thumb and lovey
on the way to CC and Day Day's.
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| David got into the beads in Myrtle Beach. |
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| Thor helps his Grandma's open their Mother's Day gifts. |
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| The kids made and ate "worms in dirt." Drew's idea. His class made them recently during their garden-themed week and he wanted to do it again. |
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| We tried to get some nice photos but David wasn't too cooperative. |
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| Drew made very sweet pictures for CC and Me-Ma. CC shows off her "I love you to the bottom of the ocean and back" picture. Me-Ma was given an equally sweet "I love you to outer space and back." The titles are on the back of the pictures. |
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David's the party pooper in this pic.
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I made a cake for Mother's Day. It's not easy having cake in
the house because David LOVES cake. The cake is best when
made the day before so we had to listen to him beg for it long
before it was time to have some. Then, he begged for it constantly
afterwards until it was gone. Thankfully, the cake was eaten pretty
quickly. Here he is having a slice on the counter the next morning
for breakfast. I wish you could hear him saying
"My having caaaaaaaake!!!"
So happy! He insisted on eating it off of the pink plates like we
did the first go-round.
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| Nice photo of Me-Ma and the boys. |
