Christmas Fun

I found this on someone else's blog and thought it was just hilarious!!!! Hope you think so too!

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Merry Christmas!

Last of Vacation Pictures, Finally!

I decided that with the busy Christmas season quickly approaching I had better get these pictures posted. There are a lot more, but I picked out the highlights and am going to call it good! In the last grouping we were in Omaha, NE visiting my brother and sister-in-law. We left there and drove across the state to Scottsbluff. We couldn't make it through the state without having some fun with some of the Nebraska football fan gear!

We got to see Ron's grandma and his uncle that we hadn't seen for quite some time.

Then we went to also saw Ron's Grandpa and Grandma Miller. They took us up on the Scottsbluff and got some great pictures!

We got to see Ron's Great Grandma Miller, which would be Aaron's Great Great Grandma! Isn't that neat! She's still got tons of spunk too!

After a couple wonderful days in Scottsbluff we went on to Cody, WY and saw Aaron's Grandma GG, my Grandma Gwynn. Had a great time with her too!

We got to go up on the mountain and see some AWESOME scenery we hadn't seen in a while. Here's a couple family pictures too.

We also got to take my Grandma Gwynn and my Mom to Yellowstone National Park which we all hadn't been to for years. Here's a picture we took on the way there.

While in the Park we got to see a very large Grizzly Bear just minding his own business. Isn't he pretty in a scary sort of way!

Here we are waiting to see Old Faithful. It had gotten pretty chilly by this time and we even saw a few snow flurries!

Here is the faithful geyser herself! I can't remember the last time I had seen it so it was fun to see God's wonderful, amazing creation again!

Aaron got to ride of the four wheeler with Grandma and thought that was pretty cool! He was definitely more interested in figuring out how to drive it than in getting his picture taken!

Here is Aaron and his two cousins Aly and Katie. They had a great time together and wish they could play together more often! Aren't they adorable!

We also got to see Grandma Kris for a short time. We missed seeing Grandmpa, but he was busy working.

We also got to see my Grandma Benson. Aaron had a great time playing with her! Was so good to see her again!

One of the reasons we took this trip is to celebrate Ron's 30th birhtday. An all-time favorite of his is Fried Ice Cream from this resteraunt in Cody. We went there especially to get one on his birthday. Don't tell him I put this picture on here. He'd probably not appreciate it very much! =) I think it's great! At least he can still act young! =) He! He! That's his sister there acting normal.

Here is Aaron's Nana and Papa. They enjoyed so much having us all there again and wish we could make it back there more often!




On our way back to Florida we decided to stop and see some sites that we hadn't seen for a LONG time. This is Devil's Tower.

We also got to see Mount Rushmore. Aaron calls it the mountain with the faces! We hadn't seen this since High School.

Here is Aaron being silly in our hotel room. He was waiting to go swimming and found his tie in the suitcase. I think it's an adorable picture!

We also got to stop and visit Chicago. We just had to eat one of their famous Chicago Deap Dish Pizzas! I can now tell you that there is a reason why they are famous! It was so YUMMY!!!! We had a hard time finding our way out of the city so that was pretty frustrating, but we eventually got there.

Overall we had an awesome vacation with many special times as a family. We're not sure when we'll get the chance to do it again so we had to make the most of it!

Hope you enjoyed our pictures. It's fun looking back on the memories!

Happy Turkey Day to all!

I know it's come to be called "Turkey Day" today, and I'm sure we'll all enjoy some of that too, but I'm trying to focus on the "thanks-giving" part of today. We have so many things to be thankful for. I know there is the song "Count Your Many Blessings, Name Them One By One", and it is good to try to name them, but I'm finding it hard to count them. There are so many. I thank my dear Lord for all that He has done for me and given to me! We truly are blessed! I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families reflecting on all we have to be thankful for!

Wonderful Weekend

We had such a great weekend. We were celebrating the Marine Corp. birthday with their annual Birthday Ball. Happy Belated Birthday Marines! The Ball was in Destin which was about an hour and a half away from Pensacola. It was in the Hilton there! Let me tell you, I am definitely impressed with Hiltons! The bunk beds were the first thing we saw as we walked into our room. Then we saw the rest of the room and our jaws just dropped! Here is Ron and Aaron already making themselves at home!

Here is the view from our balcony. We were on the seventh floor. It was just beautiful! The weather wasn't quite warm enough to go walking on the beach, much to my disappointment, but we sure enjoyed the scenery anyway!

Aaron got to enjoy the pool.

The sunset was just breathtaking! I believe there was a wedding scheduled for that evening on the beach and oh how beautiful that would have been!

Saturday night we got to enjoy the Ball. It was the best ball that I've been to yet. They had a great guest speaker, the decorations were beautiful, and the guys acutally behaved themselves through the ceremony. It was just a nice time for the two of us! The first picture is of some of the Marines carrying the cake and on the right side of that picture is the oldest and youngest Marines that were present. The older passes the cake to the younger symbolizing the passing of the torch in a way. The whole ceremony is really neat, but I didn't get pictures of the rest of it. The whole weekend was very special and relaxing before we get into the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

Wonderful Veteran's Day!

We had such a neat Veteran's Day at church this past Sunday. We had our active duty servicemen lead us in the pledges and then Ron and three other men sang the National Anthem. Then they had purchased medals (the front said "Victory" and the back said "Thanks Vet" and then had the name of our church) for all the veterans and then played the theme song for each branch and had the respective veterans come up onto the stage to receive their medals. I got so emotional when I saw how MANY there were up there. Just a very special service. I appreciate so much how patriotic our pastor and church are! Hope everyone else had a nice Veteran's Day weekend, even though this is a little late!