New Job, Old Job, New Job

This is Caroline on the first day of her job.

Caroline worked for two weekends at the Grill in the museum near our house last February.  Unfortunately, we didn't realize when she started that she would have to work every other Sunday - missing church.  So, she had to quit.  But she is now employed every other Monday afternoon as a babysitter.  She's counting her nickels and dimes to buy herself a camera like this one  Not sure how long that's going to take! 

The Perfect Organism

 

Hey it's Sarah. I was going through all the drafts of our blog and found this one. We finally got rid of this Rosemary bush because the scent was attracting some scorpions. It took my dad about a day to cut it down. The main 'trunk' was about 3-4 inches wide. This is what my mom had written in the earlier post.

We planted a tiny little Rosemary plant off the back patio about 5 or 6 years ago. It has grown - and GROWN! We finally decided that it had outgrown it's location. Spence liked to call it the perfect organism because you couldn't kill it, but he has subdued the earth and conquered it.

~SARAH GRAY~

Postscript.  I guess you'll end up with a few "oldies"  I'm going through old drafts and this was still in there - from Sept 2009!  It's still a cool picture.

Redding Air Show

We were glad that one of the Jelly Belly planes was at the airshow, since Sarah, William and Winston were all wearing the new t-shirts that we had just gotten from the Jelly Belly factory!

Just found this in the drafts folder - not sure what happened.  We took quite a few more pictures at the airshow, but I figure that I better post this before the new year is upon us! :)

Spencer's Birthday

 

We enjoyed a nice family celebration of Spencer's 47th birthday a few weeks ago.  He loves Mexican food, so we tried out a new restaurant (for us).  We haven't been out to each much in the neighboring town of Griffin, so it was nice to have an opportunity to do that. 

William was thrilled with one of Spencer's gifts - Stratego!  The game where strategy wins.  Spence and his brother played a lot growing up and he has been asking for it for years.  It's been hard to find in a "regular" version - not Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter.  But this year is the 50th anniversary, so I was able to find a nice "normal" game to get him. 

Winston was determined not to look at the camera.  Seems as if we either get a cheesy grin, or no face at all!

Hiawassee Nov 2011

We had a wonderful weekend with all of Spence's family to celebrate his mother's 70th birthday.

Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Katy, her daughter, Ivy, and husband, Fred, Nathan, Spence, Winston, me
Cy and Malinda
Caroline, Nathan's daughter, Leighton, Sarah
William

 Cousins playing together.  Winston was 2 in May and Ivy will be 2 next March

 Big Cousins playing together!  They had fun with their "photo shoot," especially with the apps on Sarah's Itouch.  I'll have to do a separate post just with the pictures they took with that!
Leighton was 14 in August, Sarah was 12 in June and Caroline 15 in September

 We were still able to enjoy some of the fall colors on the mountains.

 Birthday dinner for Malinda - and cake and ice cream!

 The girls got out Malinda's wedding dress and took pictures of Leighton in it.

A fun weekend for all!  Looking forward to doing it again in a few weeks in Greensboro for Thanksgiving.

Enough already!!

Back in September, we had quite a mouse problem.  This is what greeted me one morning when I woke up!!  YUCK!!

Last week, we had an almost sleepless night.  Between Winston crying from not feeling well and a mouse scratching, we only got a few hours of sleep. 

While we were gone to Hiawassee for the weekend, the mouse poison that we had put out (little boxes that have blood thinner in them that the mouse eats) did their work.  Unfortunately, Spence had gone under the house and plugged lots of holes where he thought mice might have been getting in.  He was so thorough that the poisoned mouse couldn't get back to his nest!  We came home to a smelly house.  I finally found the culprit!!

Needless to say, all the windows are open and we are airing out the house! 

I'm tired of the furry little things.  They are UNWANTED house guests!