The Zoo in Flordia

Saturday afternoon we decided to go to Florida the next day. One of the new benefits of living in GA with Leonard's parents in FL. It took close to 9 hours to drive down due to traffic, but only 7 1/2 on the way back. Leonard's brother Silas and wife and 2 yo daughter were visiting as well. We have not seen them in 2 1/2 years, so we decided it was worth the drive down. While there Leonard played golf with his Dad and brother and I went to the beach with his Mom, the boys, sister in law and niece. Monday afternoon the boys took a dip in Grandma and Grandpa's pool. Then on Tuesday we all went to the zoo. The zoo was great. The kids got to feed birds on their arms, feed and pet giraffes, feed and touch sting ray, ride on a camel and pet and groom goats. It was a very fun hands on experience. On Wednesday we returned home.

Pictures of the beach may follow later. Despite the wind and chill the boys still got in the water! It is hard to resist the ocean.

Merry Christmas

For anyone who has been wondering what the inside of our house looks like you are in luck. Below are a few pictures of our decorated house.





The week of Christmas my brother Kyle and his wife Collette flew in from Utah. We spent the week going back and forth from our place and my parents. Tuesday Leonard played golf with my Dad and brothers, Wednesday we spent at home Thursday we played Christmas songs on the bells at my parents then went to a family friends house for a Christmas Eve dinner. Christmas was spent at home with just us and Saturday everyone came our way to bowl and then have dinner at our house. It was a fun week.

Lenny's Award Winning Cookie

For the December Cub Scout Pack meeting they had a cookie contest. The theme was cub scouts and the holidays. Lenny's huge snowman won a ribbon for 'Best Theme' in the Wolf age group. For a sense of it's size -the bottom and mid-section took up one whole cookie sheet.

We are now gearing up for the Pine Wood Derby.

Stone Mountain

Leonard's sister Liz came to visit for Thanksgiving. We had the traditional Thanksgiving at my sister in-law Megan's parent's house on Thursday. Did early morning shopping on Friday. Then went to Stone Mountain on Saturday. None of us had every been before. It was a lot of fun. We played putt-putt, watched a 4-d version of Polar Express (which was amazing-rumbling seats, splashing water, wind and falling snow), rode a train around Stone Mountain at dusk to see all the lights and watched a Christmas laser light show on the side of the mountain.

Halloween

Frankenstein

Zombie

For Halloween we had a church trunk or treat party at a member's house and then came back to the neighborhood to trick or treat. Unfortunately it was rainy that night as well, but just a drizzle. Lenny was a zombie and Patrick was Frankenstein. I did not take these pictures til the end of the evening and Lenny had already started washing his face. But you get the idea.

Pumpkin Patch

When Leonard's parents came out for Lenny's baptism in October we went with them to a local tree farm. They had an apple shooting gun, a hayride, lots of ugly fish to feed, yummy caramel apples and lots of pumpkins to choose from.


Patrick holding the fish food.


The Ugly Fish!

Too bad it was a really cold, drizzly weekend. But we still enjoyed ourselves.