Sunday at the Cabin...lots of pictures!

Sunday we were at the cabin for the Woolly Worm Festival and Grandpa birthday!


The cabin w/fall color...

Grandfather mountain a little passed peak color.
Had to take this picture...this tree was so red!

The men did some work...cut down trees and moved logs.

The kids explored with their new friends Racer, Spiderman, Wormie and Dodger (all Woolly Worms)
Eddie and his daughter Cloe...Sal w/Samuel on his chest...and Bob w/Nina Grace (aka Samantha)
The kids holding their worms and keeping them warm.

Bobby took 2nd place in his heat.

Sal and Bobby got red ribbons for 2nd place...good job boys!

Waiting for the race sitting on a pumpkin keeping the worms warm!

They had an animal rescue at the fair...but this possum should have been put down...trust me!

The gang getting ready to sing Happy Birthday to Grandpa!

Anthony after the cake was in his belly...yum!

We had a great day with the family!

stay tuned...

we are leaving tonight to go the mountains so stay tuned for a new blog next week...
we have plans on going to the Wooly Worm festivities as well as cutting up fallen trees and visiting w/family & friends!

Things...

Some new things...

We went out and purchased a little car.

As you guys know Bobby has a big truck that he loves! The only problem w/this truck is the price of the liquid it takes to run the motor...DIESEL GAS! So over the pasted weeks I've been combing Craig's list and local dealerships for a "little" gas sipper! We found one in great shape!

We are the proud owners of a 1992 yes '92 Honda Accord EX. It is almost the same color of Bob's truck (light brown)w/Burgundy interior. If cars could tell a story I would love to hear what this one would say...she has 235,000 miles and has been wrecked b/c it has a salvage title. The title means we just can't get collision on it and your taxes are cheaper. I would love to know it's history...we are waiting to get the title in the mail from Raleigh.

I hope we get another 235,000 miles out of this car...time will tell

Baking:

I've also made some cornbread (thanks Mari for the recipe) recently. The cast iron skillets used to belong to Bob's grandmother Cora. When we moved her up here from Florida we were told we could have anything we wanted out of the kitchen and I grabbed the cast iron stuff. One of the corn skillets is stamped w/a date of 1928. I was trilled when I was done baking I had to grab my camera while they cooled. I guess because the skillets were in the family it just made the cornbread taste that much better to me. (thanks Cora)

final update on Chewie!

Lots of you guys have asked over the weeks how Chewie's leg has healed. We are all better! I went back to the Emergency vet last week and gave them a big THANK YOU and updated them on Chewie. They were grateful that I came by with a great update. This is the last picture of his leg all the hair has basically grown back and where he was bitten we have black scar tissue.

He is doing great for a 10 year old pup!

Friday afternoon

We had a low key Friday afternoon. I normally watch my friends (Pete & Heather) boys on Friday afternoons so they can work but...they went to the beach. We had a great night. We started after school with playing outside. The boys LOVE to be outside.

They hunted for worms and bugs, rode bikes and we colored the driveway with chalk. We left notes for daddy.

After a while we came in and had pizza then went for a nature walk around the neighborhood. Once we were done looking at all the poison ivy, ant hills, and wild flowers we came in for movie time. We all pick out a movie (Enchanted, for mommy) sat up in the playroom and watched it. I love watching movies with the boys. Once the movie was over it was time for baths and bed....not only for the kids but for Mommy too.