Monday, July 30, 2007

Birthday pics and a special visit




We had a great time this weekend in Ky. celebrating Meigan's birthday. We had lots of cousins and family come to celebrate.
On Sunday we drove up to some friends of ours who live outside of Cincinnati on the Ky. side. We became good friends in our China travel group last year. They live on a dairy farm and the kids had a blast feeding calves and seeing all their cows and horses. Next summer Logan will spend some time up there helping on the farm. He's anxious to milk a cow even though it's all done by machines now.
Marci and Eddie's little one, Maddie, is so cute and like the energizer bunny, she goes and goes and goes! That's why it was nearly impossible to get any pics of the girls together!

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Hi, Out There, We're Back!!!


Our view from our deck! It so beats the view we had in Naples!


Hello from Soddy-Daisy, TN!

Well we have been up here now for almost 3 weeks. I really missed not having my computer. It didn't make the trip. Yesterday we got a new one so at least I am up and running again. We are all doing well. Scott leaves for work at 5:30 a.m. every morning but he's off at 2:30 so that is nice. Logan has made a new friend named Gio. He's a year older and they are together either here or his house down the street everyday. His parents have a garden so he's always bringing us fresh veggies! They are Florida transplants, too,from the east coast.
Jennifer has taken up with the neighbor girl who is fourteen. She loves playing with the girls and I've used her for babysitting already when I had to go to the DMV.
It definitely is different for us but in a good way. To get to our development you pass horses and cows and Meigan can say cow plain as day. Last week all the cows were up against the fence along side the road and we just stopped and talked to the cows. Could we do that in Naples?
Seriously, though the views up here are really beautiful and we have really fallen in love with our small town. There is a bigger town about 20 min away which has all the stores we're used to. Of course we've scoped out the mall a couple of times already.
The weather is absolutely perfect. Not too hot or too cold. We eat outside on the deck alot in the evenings.
Mom, Dad and Jennifer are in Gatlinburg this week until Fri. We will all be driving up to Ky. to celebrate Meigan's 3rd birthday on Sat. Will be nice to celebrate with lots of family as it is a bittersweet day as well. It can't be a coincidence that she shares that date with her uncle Matt's passing.
Something kinda strange today, too. I went and got my Tn. plate today. The only three numbers on the plate were 728. Believe it or not....