Flashback Friday...Christmas Edition

Lots and lots of pictures!

My little 4 month old Lane

4 generations

4 generations

4 generations

The Har man

Miss you, Grandma Betty

Let's see, which tooth was he cutting this month???

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Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas card this year...in case you didn't get one! Have a very wonderful holiday!

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Greetings

From Kentucky! We got out of the house bright and early this morning...4:30 to be exact. Lane made a smooth transition from bed to car seat and slept the first 4 hours of the trip. Thank goodness for Pandora to get me through the first 3 hours of the drive through the mountains in the dark. All my boys were asleep. I'm surprised Matt didn't panick when he woke up and it was light out and I hadn't waken him for directions. I can do this drive in my sleep, i'm sure we all can, even my mom, minus the driving part,cause well, she just sleeps. Right dad?!? Anyway this drive is a cinch for me except today we had a detour because of a rock slide on I40. 52 miles of interstate shut down so it was a pretty big detour. Anyway when things got a little hairy I fired up the Garmin and we were good to go. I kinda enjoyed the peacefulness. I watched the sunrise over the snow covered mountains and took it all in. Me and Kenny, I believe that was playing as the sun peaked over the horizon. "Don't blink", in fact, a fitting song. When everbody started to stir I enjoyed watching Matt and Lane eat the oatmeal I made before we left for breakfast in my rear view mirror. We've stopped once and will probably stop again in Champaign. I'm about to break open the sandwiches we packed for lunch and now we are in Indy! Woohoo!
As we approach the holidays I wish you the best in slowing down and soaking up the wonder of the season. Not sweating the small stuff and finding time to rejoice in what this season is
really about because in a blink it will be gone.


Sent from my iPhone.

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Weekend Trip to Atlanta

The reason for our trip was to go watch Illinois play again. They played UGA which is in Athens, but the game itself was at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth. I would say 90% of the people there were Illinois fans. Lots of orange in the stands and we even got the I-L-L chant going a few times...and it was loud. Despite the huge amount of fans there cheering for the orange and blue, they lost and here are their losing faces.

Dinner after the game.

I swear I was there, I even had my orange on.

We stayed at a pretty nice hotel.

I picked it solely on the fact that it had this little extra sitting area.

It was seperate from our sleeping quarters so it helped in setting up the pnp.

Here was Lane on his nap I blogged about here.

After a nap and some lunch we headed into downtown Atlanta to the Children's Museum.

He absolutely loved this shopping cart.

He is SO my son. While he does look like he's enjoying this tractor ride, he did not. He was a little cautious and afraid of it.

Taking a ride in the grocery truck.

Working the fork lift.

This was another favorite of his.

Back to the shopping cart. He pushed that thing all over the museum!

Sitting in the pig pen, in between some chicken coups.

The sand area.

(In case you are wondering if I was at the museum...proof=those are my legs right there.)

He is not a fan of slides.

Working in his organic garden.

Playing with the giant train village.

When we got home we put one of his Christmas gifts on him.

An arts-n-crafts/baking apron.

It cracked me up!

Cheese!

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