Friday, May 11, 2012

Pictures from the trip taken with my phone

I finally took the time tonight to upload from my phone. There may be some repeats here but here we go!

This woman, ME, could not make it through security at the airport. Yep, I beeped when I went through the detector. Here is what I was wearing. I received a pat down, not fun. My older children had to take care of all of our carry on baggage and their little brother while I received a pat down. This is not during my pat down, I am sure that the agents would not allow that. This is me in the Atlanta airport after flying for too many hours to recount. I am tired, I had spilled my Chick-fil-a sweet tea all over my shoes after walking a very long distance to purchase said sweet tea and a sandwich. I know you are waiting to hear, I did not receive another pat down when I returned home. I wore the exact same outfit with one minor undergarment change…

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Pa-Pa and her cousin

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Pa-Pa and K and my first Panera Bread experience just before taking K to the airport to go back to college. She should have dropped out and vacationed with me, just kidding!

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Pa-Pa and I in front of The Oasis, a pizza place.

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My cousin, Mel and I.

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Cousins, a new sweet word for my Blessings!

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We gave up trying to get the youngest two in, here are the photo trained cousins!

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Benjamin having a little down time while everyone got ready for the day.

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While we were there my father-in-law at surgery, this huge board was outside of the UT medical center to show support for Pat Summit and her recent alzhimer’s diagnosis, the Blessings signed, I took pictures.

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We traveled in comfort!

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Nantahala Lake in North Carolina

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The view of the lake from where we stayed. Loved that porch!

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Lots of family at church, Grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. We took up more than one pew! I also kept getting introduced to distant relatives in this church that had the same last name as we do.

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More cousin photos!

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The kids in the General Lee, Benjamin didn’t care that the doors opened, he wanted to climb out!

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My Aunt and I.

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Benjamin and my niece playing on the organ, the same one that I played on when I was his age.

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Benjamin got his first barber shop haircut. I had never been in a barber shop before.

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We had dinner with my brother and his wife and girls. More cousins!! We love cousins!

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Oh, and more cousins, they were trying to build a human pyramid, fun times!

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Found Pictures

I must have spent a little too much time looking through pictures for the previous posts because I could not find these pictures when I posted about our relocated Alaskan friends coming to Kentucky to visit.

The girls dressed up in colonial clothing, the boys would not humor us.

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I took the kids to a park with a creek just perfect for rock throwing and finding crawdads. This was a favorite childhood place of mine.

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Friday, May 4, 2012

Creation Museum and Great Wolf Lodge

After a few days back in the old home town we headed off for our last road trip to the Creation Museum and Great Wolf Lodge.

Elisabeth in the entry

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Looking in the water

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I love the way Benjamin is checking out the dinosaur.

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The Noah’s Ark section

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The Blessings out front.

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Sights of Cincinnati

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Ready for the water

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In Which We are Reunited

Often times these trips to the lower 48 involve the Blessings and I leaving a week or so ahead of time to optimize the cost of tickets and to spend a bit more time with family.

After Daddy flew in we began the first of two road trips. This trip was to visit family in North Carolina. Cousins!!!!

The cousins that live in North Carolina were thrilled to have older cousin Levi there to drive them around on the golf cart for hours on end.

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The trusty driver

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Benjamin didn’t want anything to do with the golf cart so he played in the dirt with another little cousin.

Bubbles and dirt playing!

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The family arranged for us to stay at this cabin with a beautiful lake view and they all came to us for a cookout. Great times visiting with family here.

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Cousins!

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Later that evening the immediate family converged on the grandparents yard for a fire with hot dog roast and smores.

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It is always fun to throw rocks into the creek.

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Or sit with your cousin next to the creek.

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Smores!

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