Weekend Update - WOW

Well, I took a few days off from blogging because, well there just wasn't any time to do that.  It was such a jam-packed weekend for us that I am just now catching my breath.

Thursday, we had 17 people for lunch.  I got to see my cousin's newest grandchild, Kaiden.  He is so good and such a good baby.  It was good to see his mom and dad too!  We also had a wonderful friend from church and her daughter and three grandkids.  Two of those kids are one-year old twins who Daughter had fun chasing around.  So cute.

Later that evening, Foxy, Daughter, Son and I went over to our niece's house and enjoyed dessert with more family.  It was great to see those we haven't seen in a while and we had such a nice time.  We even got to meet baby Ella, the newest member of the Foxy family.  Isn't she adorable?

Baby Ella and Daughter

 Friday, we went over to Indianapolis to see our niece in her Beef and Boards production of  A Christmas Review.  It was a lot of fun and got us all in the Christmas spirit.  There were over 25 songs/medleys, lots of dancing, jokes and a great tribute to our Armed Forces.  Our niece was wonderful in it with her dancing, singing and facial expressions (she is in the chorus), but we thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.  I recommend it to everyone.

Wacky Wednesday! Family Vacations. Good times, good times...

Today I have no idea what to tell about.  Saturday night, I was sitting around with my parents, Daughter and Foxy talking about vacation stories that we used to take when I was a kid.  Here are a few random stories.

• My dad is a huge history buff.  So almost every trip, there would be a history lesson.  Like when we went over to Eastern Ohio to see the spot where Chief Logan signed a peace treaty and made a big speech under this huge Elm tree.  When we got to the spot, there was no tree, just a big rock that marked the spot!  The tree died a few years before.  
• We took several trips to outdoor plays in Ohio.  The first was Tecumseh!, a play about a great prophet of the Shawnee tribe. I was about eight years old.  As we were watching, fighting broke out among the soldiers and Natives and they came out into the audience.  One native fell and died right next to me on the steps.  As the scene ended, the stage blackened.  When the lights came back up, I looked over and the dead Indian was gone!   I leaned over and whispered to my dad, "Where'd the dead guy go?"  
• My dad's family lived in California all of my childhood.  Every four years or so, we would fly out there for a week or so.  When I was a teen, my uncle J and I were walking arm-in-arm looking around Monterey and Carmel and he was explaining that a lot of condominiums were being built.  He looked at me and said, "When you are older, we'll go buy a condom together."  I stopped dead in my tracks and screeched, "WHAT?  Boy did his face turn read when he realized what he said!  LOL
• Another time, we were vacationing out in California and staying at a hotel called the Brigadoon, with my Uncle J, his wife, Aunt EO and cuz, AD.  Gma was sitting in a chair next to the pool and the rest of us were in the water throwing a ball or frisbee around.  Gpa threw the thing too high and as Uncle J came up out of the water, his swim trucks did not.  It happned right in front of Gma.  Both Uncle J and Gma had beet red faces!  That was the night my mom got mooned at the Brigadoon!  We still laugh about that!
• We were in South Dakota as teens, visiting Mount Rushmore.  Gpa had heard about these wild burro that you could go see.  So we drove up this dirt road and sure enough there they were.  Stupidly, we got out of the Jeep Wagoneer and got close to them.  My sister had a box of Crunch N Munch and started giving the burros some.  Well, those burro were not wild at all.  They started pushin' in, trying to get at the box.  Sis ran for the jeep, and as she tried to get in the car, the inside door handle or the window handle caught her shorts and ripped them almost off of her.  She got the door closed, but the window was down and this burro stuck it's head in and my sis, being as lady-like as she was (NOT!), hollered, "You stupid, sloberish animal!  Get out!" and hauled off and decked it.  LOL.  Funniest thing ever!

So do you have any funny memories of family vacations? 

Friday Photo Flashback & Friday Follow Me

Here are my Friday Photo Flashbacks.  My father found these and showed them to everyone during VBS.  Kinda embarrassing, but cool, because some of these I haven't seen in quite a while.

This is my sister, me, and my two cousins.  It's somewhere around 1976.  I believe we are getting ready to go to church.  Don't you love the cute dresses, bobs and the plaid pants?

Here we are again, with one extra cousin.  This is probably 1973 on my backporch.  My cousin's always wore socks with their sandals and I wore those shoes until they fell apart!

This is my paternal grandfather.  I cried when I saw this picture.  He passed away when I was 12.  He was such a crazy, fun man!  Don't you love his glasses?



I am also Friday Follow Me-ing.


Have a great weekend!

Friday Five

Today's Friday Five is about what you have never done with your family before...or have you?

This weekend, here are five things I am going to try to do with my family that I have never done before.

1.  We are going to walk around Cin-City down at Fountain Square and to several places to see the Canstruction competition.

2.  I am going to try to pay attention to them more.

3.  I am going to make each family member pick a meal for next week that they want to prepare for us.  Yes we still have as many family meals around the table together as possible.

4.     We will talk about a possible vacation.

5.  We go to Hooters.

What will you do new with your family this weekend?  Let me know...