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A Thanksgiving of Wonders

As a surprise I gave Doug tickets to fly to Utah over Thanksgiving. Every year as a tradition his dad and others go on a backpacking trip to the Grand Canyon the day after Thanksgiving. Since we have lived in Tennessee Doug has missed out on the tradition. I decided that Doug is so busy and works so hard always doing things for other people that he never has time to do fun things for himself. This was the perfect opportunity for him to get away. These are a few pictures from his trip. They pretty much hike and make up their own trail down so it is a dangerous. This time they actually found a new route to the bottom of the canyon that is much shorter than the other hikes they have done. He had a great time enjoying one of the greatest wonders of the world!
This is a panoramic picture of Doug standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon

Here is a picture of the ring tail cats down there that come out at night!

This is a fresh spring coming out the side of the rock

A night on the town!

So a couple of weekends ago Doug and I were able to go on a real date. The law firm he works for paid for us to go to a dinner that celebrated those attorneys that have been practicing law for over 50 years. The founding partner of his firm was honored that night so we were invited! It was so fun, we got all dressed up and went to the art emporium for a buffet dinner and a live band. It was a real black tie affair! We had a great time together, and I think the last time I got to where a fancy dress was on our cruise 7 and 1/2 years ago! It was so fun!

We are still here!

Well, long story short my camera busted so I cant post pictures, all three kids have been way sick. Parker has had two ear infections in which we have tried two different antibiotics which didn't work and so he has had to have two rounds of heavy duty antibiotic shots! Poor kid! Brielle and Bens have had a bacterial infection called Microplasm that settled in their lungs. So between nightime wakings, antibiotics, breathing treatments, cough medicine and being quarantined to our house for a week I have not had time to blog. But we are all alive which I am grateful for. Here are a few updates:

Parker: We took him to the doctor and he weighs 20.6 lbs! What in the world! He is my biggest kid by far, but I absolutely love all his rolls. He is almost crawling and is only seven months old. The other two didn't even attempt til they were at least 9 mo. He does the army crawl to get everywhere! I need to baby proof my house again for sure! He is still the best baby ever and never cries, even with 2 ear infections he has been a happy camper.

Benson: Well Benson is still Benson. He was standing on the dresser the other day and fell and busted his lip open. It was bleeding everywhere! Does that surprise anyone? I wish I had a camera so I could post picts. He is all boy . His new favorite thing to do is to help me clean up. To do this he cleans things up and then throws them in the garbage. It doesnt matter what it is, it all ends up inthe trash. So funny.

Brielle: She is still my great little helper. I really don't know what I would do without her. She is always keeping an eye on her brothers for me, or feeding parker his bottle. She plays the motherly role great. I am going to be really sad when she goes to Kindergarten. We went the other day to get our haircut and she kept saying, "Mom I really love being a girl so I can do girl dates!" I am so happy to have her as my little girl!

Well, that is the update for us. I will post again soon, but until we get our new camera for Christmas I will be posting only picts taken by others!