Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
A break in the Thanksgiving recap to wish our favorite Daddo a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! He’s the very best Daddo to this now 7 year old…
this now 5 year old…
and this now 2.5 year old!
Daddo, we hope you have a Zip-a-dee-doo-da kind of day!
We love you!!
On Friday we headed into town for breakfast and then back to the house to walk over and check out the waterfall!
Robert tried to throw a trick pass with the football and it backfired and ended up in the creek! Robert made a mad dash to save it – thankfully he got it and he didn’t fall in!
The kids were playing in the water too and thankfully they didn’t fall in either!
After lunch, I got Samantha down for a nap while Robert took the boys over to see Patrick and Henry and hike up Satulah! We definitely wore them out this trip!
Samantha didn’t miss out though – she had plenty of fun playing with Baby Margaret all weekend!
Even more mountain fun tomorrow!
Like the previous two years, we traveled up to Highlands, NC with Robert’s side of the family for Thanksgiving. This year we had Mary Beth, Holland, and Margaret join in addition to Lulu and Granddaddy and it was a great trip! It was also a silent drive up! 🙂
Once we got there, Samantha quickly found some seasonally appropriate toys and made herself at home! ha!
We took full advantage all weekend of the beautiful weather! The kids are a little older now so we challenged them with some new hikes and they did great! On Thanksgiving morning, we all hiked up Whiteside Mountain. Samantha walked herself the whole way!
We went up the easier side of the mountain which was the smart decision. We even saw one of my college friends, Amanda, and her family on the mountain! Small world!
Maxwell kept finding every opportunity to go “off trail”!
The views were worth the hike once we got to the top!
I mean…how beautiful! The scenery and my babies! 🙂
I think this is what you call a “framer”!!
We went down the more difficult trail side of the mountain and it was pretty fun to go down – and would not have been as much fun to go up! We definitely earned our pie and had a great Thanksgiving meal that afternoon! After we ate, we were outside again to throw the ball and work off that pie!
Check out this awesome catch!
Don’t worry, there was plenty of laying around too!
A great start to a fun trip!
We got some sad news yesterday that Granddaddy passed away. He was 93 and lived a long, happy, and golf-filled life. I’m so grateful for all the years I had with him and even more grateful that all of my kids got to meet him. I can’t wait to celebrate his life with the rest of the family this week.
We traveled to Arkansas to see him just this past summer…
Through the years I’ve gotten lots of good pictures of the three Maxwells!!
Christmas 2016 when he got to meet Samantha for the first time…
2010…
Granddaddy, Daddo and John….
With baby Delaney…
Many years ago with Grandmother too…
Christmas was always a special time with my grandparents. When we were little they would come to town and take me and my brother and to eat at Franke’s and sit on Santa’s lap at the mall! Seems fitting that my brother and parents got to eat at Franke’s with Granddaddy just last week.
We sure will miss him – and his Christmas socks! – this year…
We love you, Granddaddy.
What a day! It’s our best guy’s birthday today!!!
To quote one of your *favorite* books to read to the kids before bed…
If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you.
If you’d never been born, well then what would you do?
If you’d never been born, well then what would you be?
You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree!
You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes!
You might be a bag full of hard green tomatoes.
Or worse than all that. . . Why, you might be a WASN’T!
A Wasn’t has no fun at all. No, he doesn’t.
A Wasn’t just isn’t. He just isn’t present.
But you. . .You ARE YOU! And, now isn’t that pleasant!
Robert, we’re so glad you aren’t a Wasn’t!!
I’d say 40 was pretty good to you….
Can’t wait to see what 41 brings! We love you so much and are so thankful for all that you do.
Happy Birthday to the best guy around!!
We love you Robert!