Dave 'N It Up

Monday, December 17, 2007

Thanksgiving #3

Adam re-decorates his thanksgiving tshirt (from his original design to his right) after the design disappeared in the wash the first time

Aunt Chris and Lindsay

Before dinner, Adam tells everyone what he's thankful. Adam's really pretty shy so we were pleasantly surprised that he wanted to get up in front of everyone.

We love Lindsay's "chunky legs"

Derek helps Lindsay show off her "big sister" tshirt

On Saturday we went to Helen's parents for our 3rd Thanksgiving meal in as many days. I made the strategic decision to go without a belt and, boy, was I glad.

Derek won more money from me as my Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets failed again to beat the hated Georgia Bulldogs. Helen's family is not really into sports and thinks it's strange that I'm constantly yelling, imploring, and pleading at\with the tv. In the end our sorry players failed to make a play (making it at least 5 years since they've made one) resulting in the firing of our coach and good guy, Chan Gailey.

But the big news was the announcement that Helen's brother, Mike, and his wife, Chris, are expecting their second child. They let everyone know by dressing their daughter, Lindsay, in an "I'm going to be a big sister" tshirt.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Train Museum

After the train museum the boys roped Grandpa into playing frisbee

Adam tells us what he's thankful for

On the Friday after Thanksgiving my Dad came over and we all went to the Southeastern Railway Museum. It was neat. We all had fun riding the train with Santa, walking through the old passenger cars, watching the miniature train, and seeing all the old railroad memorabilia.

When we got home the boys had lots of things for Grandpa to play with them. When he was good and worn out we had Thanksgiving meal #2. And again we were all stuffed.

Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving we went over to my mom's house. Usually my brother Jason and his wife, Laine, join us, but this year they went to visit Laine's dad in Texas. My mom made lots of good food for us and we were all stuffed - as it should be on Thanksgiving.

I spent most of the time doing a tune-up of her computer. She recently switched from AOL to Comcast and had so much AOL junk on the computer that it was unusable. She's all straightened away now and should be able to enjoy her computer much more now.

She has a new lab, Hannah, as well as a chow-mix, Ruby. They're sweet dogs. Hannah spent most of time trying to get everyone to rub her belly. She would just plop down in front of you and roll over and wait.

After dinner we all chilled and watched "Home Alone".

Lula

The new addition to our family, Lula, acts like she's been with us for years. She loves to cuddle and is always trying to sit in everyone's lap. The boys really love her and even Helen and I have to admit that lap dogs have some advantages over big labs.