Nearing Christmas

Our family was all together at Thanksgiving which was really great, but Christmas time is proving to be a time for multi-tasking. We are having several Christmas celebrations at different times with different members of the family. This past week has been full of activities.

One night we met Kyle and April, our middle daughter, at Logan's Steak House for a wonderful meal. Presents were exchanged at that time. We have visited Venus and Josh twice this week. We forget some of the presents on the first visit. Katie found the presents under our tree and started playing and chewing on the ribbons so we had to put them in a cabinet out of her reach. Out of sight, out of mind; consequently we forget some of the gifts. Josh is home from school for the holidays.

Allan finished planting the young trees in Yancy's yard, installed an outside faucet and electrical outlets. We have watched a few Christmas movies including "Home Alone in NYC". We have been planning an Alaskan cruise for next year as it will be our 30th anniversary. I had my orthotics adjusted and we had our, hopefully, last dentist visit. Allan got his permanent crown.

Saturday we were invited to a brunch with Butch and Sue Walker. Their daughter and Sue's mom and dad joined us. Tuesday we went to Suncoast RV Sales to visit with Darrell and Judy Patterson who were stopping overnight on their way to visit family in the Nashville area. They have been in Summerdale at Rainbow Plantation. We visited each other while we were in Vermont and they were working in New York this past summer. We had good food and good company. If everything goes as planned, we will be working on a church project with them in Sierra Vista, Arizona in Jan. 2011.
Both of their cats, Alex and Katie, presented themselves for inspection (inspection of us that is). It is the first time we had seen both of them. By the way Darrell, if you are reading this, we checked out your new Winnebago on the lot today. It is a nice one. And just when are you picking it up?

Katie is waiting to see what Santa brings her.

From Painting, Katie, Walkers, Liberty Park

This is a picture we took at night of Liberty Park just off I459 east of Birmingham. It was casted in France one-fifth the size of the Statue of Liberty. It was placed on top of the Liberty National building in downtown Birmingham in 1956 and moved to Liberty Park in 1989 next to the Birmingham Area Boy Scout Headquarters.

From Painting, Katie, Walkers, Liberty Park