Family – Page 23

Naples

July 18, 2022

The week of July 4th we took a trip down to Naples for some fun and sun! This motley crew was happy to be there!

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It was our first time down there without Daddo and…it was hard. It just didn’t seem right. But, Naples was his favorite place and we’re so glad he introduced it to us so it could become our favorite place too. We loved doing our usual favorite things like going to the beach, the movies, playing mini golf, making cookies….can’t beat it. We also tried some new restaurants, The Bay House and The Dock, and we went to eat at Swan River. Overall a great stay!

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We love Naples!

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Father’s Day

June 19, 2022

Missing this one even more today…

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but thankful I had the very best dad to grow up with. And very, very thankful my kids get the same!

We sure do love our sporty dad…

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our campy dad…

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our girl dad…

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and our adventure dad!

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We are so lucky we all get to grow up – and grow old! – with him!

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We love you Robert! Happy Father’s Day!!

Our favorite

May 6, 2022

Look who’s here just in time for Mother’s Day! Our very favorite!

She’s getting to see all the sports…and she even got to power wash! Good things all around!

Happy Mother’s Day to GJ, Lulu, and me! 🙂

Camp

April 8, 2022

I love this picture of Daddy…

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My mom out of town (a very rare event!) and Daddy had to pick me up from my two week stay at Camp Ozark. Neither of us were used to doing those type of things without Momma in charge, but we did our best. Well, our best wasn’t quite good enough! We made the 2 hour drive back to Little Rock and then realized my laundry bag with ALL of my clothes from camp was still in my cabin. Oh no! So, we drove all the way back to Mt. Ida, Arkansas and there was my laundry bag waiting on the camp porch. We got a good laugh out of it and took turns taking each other’s picture with the laundry bag!! I need to scan in my picture with it but I love this one of Daddy – still smiling after 4 hours back and forth in the car with another 2 hours still to go back home! We did our best, but we weren’t quite as good without Momma around. Just like now, we will do our best but we’ll never be quite as good without Daddy around. I’m going to miss him so much.

It’s been so nice this week to relive memories with old friends and share stories of Daddy with new friends that never got a chance to meet him. It’s hard and we are sad but we will be ok.

More pictures

April 7, 2022

I have so many more pictures I want to share – so I’m going to do just that! Someday I’ll scan in every single picture that is in all those containers in Naples but, for now, these are some more of what I have.

Little Stevie Patterson…

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