Last year, we did our last hurrah before back to school at Great Wolf Lodge. But, since we have a party (or two) coming up at the Lodge we decided, very last minute, to visit some other animals. It turned out to be a great day for the zoo. The animals were out and up…
I don’t know how many years it has been – but every year its been our tradition to go to the mountains to get our tree. This year was no different – we headed up to Blowing Rock and stayed at Chetola Lodge – it’s become our go to spot. First time in a while,…
I knew that the spa party wouldn’t accommodate everyone who loved Cailee and wanted to celebrate her birthday with her so we planned party #2. I also relented control here completely to chuck-e-cheese (even more so than the spa party). Here we had GG + GDaddy Herrman, GG + GDaddy Dewar, The Byerly’s, The Braxtons,…
Well it’s 1:19 AM, according to my computer clock (12:19 per my hotel clock), and I find myself in Austin, TX again for the second time in three weeks. This is very atypical for me and even odder still that I find myself traveling to Austin three times in one year when there is an…
What a day! I think we did it all, and then some. We probably crammed a bit much into the day, after just getting over the ickies, but I think we were all sick (literally) of being cooped up in the house and holidays are made for celebrating. We first hit up the Greensboro Independence…
On Wednesday we went to the Brown Farm. It was Cailee’s first fieldtrip with her school (Unfortunately, the fall fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch had gotten rained out). We were lucky, even though the rain was threatening us the whole day, it held out just long enough. At the farm, the kids were told to…
Just like we have for at least the past ten years, we loaded everyone up in the car and headed to the mountains to find our “Christmas vacation” TA – DAAA tree. This year, the car was a bit more crowded with our adorable addition, Connor-man, and the two tons of baby gear that comes…
Cailee loves Connor and is really sweet around him – most of the time. She is still learning that sometimes her excitement can be a bit much for Connor. Her latest is that she always wants to hold him – not sure he always wants to be held. It normally ends with Cailee getting too…