Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The month of December has been a busy one. The first full week we went on vacation to St. Louis, Memphis and visited Lisa's parents in Illinois. Brad was checking out two possible job opportunities. The kids had a great time with Grandpa and Grandma and their Aunts and Uncles.
The day we flew back to Seattle, Brad found out that he got the go ahead to do what the FAA used to call "
Fam Time". He would be allowed to fly in the cockpit of a commercial airplane. He originally set it up to fly Dec 18
th to Philadelphia and return on the 21st to Seattle. The next day (Tuesday), Brad received a call from Allentown Tower. They were calling to set up an interview. Brad said that he could do the interview in person. So, no sooner than we were home, he was off again. The interview went well and he arrived home hopeful. Now we play the waiting game. We should know where we will be moving too by the end of January.
On a different note, Brad usually works on Sunday mornings, but he was able to get a later shift so he could watch the boys open their presents. Benny was excited about every gift he opened. Timmy had no interest in opening presents. He found a toy bus in his stocking and was content walking around with it.
This last week of December was spent getting the Christmas cards out as well as some last minute gifts. Brad has been home with bronchitis and Timmy has been running a temperature the last few days. Both seem to be getting better.
Nap Time!
Timmy sleeping on the couch. He is battling a cold (which he kindly passed to his brother).
This is the sign you can see from the highway.
There was a little beach that we could go swimming and Benny surprised me by wanting to go. He even got down in the water on his tummy and tried to "swim". He would have stayed in the water all day if we let him.
Here is our handsome three year old!
We went for a hike through the woods. Benny was okay with it as long as we paid attention to him.
Benny had to bring some friends along. Too bad Thomas, Percy and Kelly spent most of the time covered in dirt and pine needles.
Stopping to rest. Benny liked climbing the rocks.
Once again, Timmy was probably the most comfortable one during our hike.
Timmy really liked the backpack. He even fell asleep in it.
Here is Brad and Benny telling Timmy to be quiet. It was early in the morning and we didn't want to wake up our fellow campers. Timmy wasn't crying, just babbling and laughing. Notice what was for breakfast, Doughnuts!
Here is our campsite. Could you believe that we fit all four of us in this tent? Timmy slept in his pack n play and the rest of us slept on the ground. I think Timmy is the only one who really got any sleep at night.
Here is the rest of the campsite.
Timmy liked sitting in his special seat. He is doing a good job of sitting up.
Here is Benny with one of his many rocks he collected.
Happy Timmy!
"Yum, this tastes good!"
This is Benny's "don't take my picture face".
It was basically a lot of tents with games and prizes, a live band that played music and refreshments were served (for a very low price I might add, I got 2 bags of chips and a bag of cotton candy for 3 dollars). They even had a few bouncy houses for the kids to play in. It was all free (except the refreshments).
Benny got to try his hand at fishing. Of course Daddy had to help.
Sorry the picture was blurry, but Benny caught a fish!
It was a trout. We had the choice of keeping it or throwing it back and we chose to catch and release (what do I know about cooking a fish). Benny did get to touch it though.
