Thanksgiving and Jeremiah's Birthday

We made the trek to Florida for Thanksgiving. For some reason, I have no pictures of the time we spent down there. However, on the way home, a big blue diesal truck pulled out in front of me on a small road in South Carolina. Joey was sitting in the back watching a movie. Our Explorer was totaled and we had to wait on my dad to drive 2 hours to come get us. Yes, we only had it two months, but since we had Gap Insurance, we no longer had a significant amount of debt. So really it was a blessing in disguise since no one was hurt.

Jeremiah's birthday is November 28th, so it always falls close to Thanksgiving. Matt and Becca had every one over for the party. 

Jeremiah and Mark

Josiah

Matt's Aunt Jean with Josiah and one of grandkids.

Matt's mom, June, with Rachel

Opening presents!

"Fix it Daddy"

Rachel was about 4 months old

Aunt Kim tries to wrangle Josiah and Jeremiah.

Mama G's

David, Joel, Callie, and Holly (pregnant)

We all loaded up in the Explorer and headed to Clayton for some good food and fun with friends.

Outer Banks

In October, my mom and I had off a couple days of school, so she decided to rent a beach house for us all for a whole week. The house was fabulous and since it was not peak season, the price wasn't too bad either. The kitchen, dining, and living area were on the top floor as well as the master bedroom. We could see the ocean from the top decks, but we were not ocean front. The middle floor had 4 bedrooms and three bathrooms with an extra sitting area. The bottom floor had another bedroom and bathroom as well as a game room with a pool table. Oh yeah, the house also had a pool! Thanks Mom and Dad for a GREAT trip!

I think she made these cookies about three times while we were there. Chocolate oatmeal peanut butter no bake cookies are the best and so is my mom.

Guitar Hero was the game that week. 

Joey and Jason battle.

Steve, in his PJs, takes on Jason.

Yes, we took Pepper.

Abby helped keep Pepper in line.

 We thought Pepper would really like the water. We were wrong. Since it was off season, pets were allowed on the beach. We only took him out there a couple of times because he just didn't like it. Oh well.

Pregnant Rachel and Jason

We visited the Jockey's Ridge State Park. Basically, all it is a big sand dune. It was really hot, but a lot of fun. There were even some brave souls hang gliding.

Going up. 

I really do have the best parents in the world - even if my dad always wears jeans . :)

Yeah, we're that cute.

Coming down.

September Florida Trip

When I married Joey, he had a Nissan Titan Truck and an Acura sports car. I had my little blue Saturn. Obviously we didn't need three cars and the payments were horrendous. Thankfully, Joey has a good friend who works at a dealership in Jacksonville and set us up to trade all three cars for one. We took Pepper along and he was getting a tad too big to ride in the back window, but you can't tell him anything. (Yes, he is barking in this pictures. He barks a lot.)

Our "new" car: 2006 Ford Explorer, Eddie Bauer Edition. This thing had it all: leather seats, third row, dvd player with headsets and game controls.  

On our way back, we stopped at The Cupboard Cafe in Dillard, GA. We couldn't resist trying on these silly hats. 

Labor Day Weekend

We like to entertain, so we invited everyone over for a meal Labor Day Weekend. Rachel was a little over a month old.

Jeremiah was almost three. 

And Josiah was one and a half. 

Matt and Becca

Greg making a silly face.

I'm pretty sure dessert was brownies with ice cream and chocolate syrup. YUMMY! 

Mark and Kim