11/30/22

Grandma and Grandpa's new van!

Our old van


Our new van (Grandma and Grandpa's old van)!

 We were up around 6:30.  Jared drove the new red van to pick Eric up for work and take him to the bus stop.  Grandma and I rode in the back.  Eric didn't know we were here so was surprised to see Jared driving.  We are buying Grandma and Grandpa's Honda Odyssey that they just traded in!  We got to the dealership when they opened at 9:00. It only took about an hour to get all the paperwork signed.  We did a little cleaning in the van when we got back.  Found some glasses and an umbrella that the previous owners left in the van.  Good thing we know the previous owners - haha.  Grandma warmed us up some yummy chili for lunch.  The boys wanted to go to youth group tonight which starts at 6:30 so we had to leave around 12:30 to make it home on time. We had fun in the new van on the drive home.  I really like the adaptive cruise control and the lane keeping assist (for Jared - lol).  While the boys were at youth group we went to McDonalds for some goodies.  Then we parked the van in the church parking lot so we could mess around with the settings on the touch screen.  We had turned the van off and just used the battery.  Well, we killed the battery.  Whoops.  Jared had to find someone with jumper cables to give us a jump.  The boys love riding in the new van.  They had Grandma's sloppy Jo's when we got home.  Adam had three of them!  Thanks Grandma!  And thanks Mom and Dad for taking care of the boys while we were gone and getting them to and from school! We unloaded the kiln this evening.  It was cold and windy outside.

11/29/22

Playing skipbo with Nana and Papa

 

I finished adding handles to some large mugs.  Jacob drove to school and then I headed to the bank to get the van title signed off on.  I stayed in town because I only had about an hour before I had to pick Adam up from school.  I went to Salvation Army and Habitat for humanity.  Didn't find anything I couldn't live without.  At home I did some packing.  When Jared got home we headed to Nana and Papa's house.  Stopped to pick up a pizza and bread sticks for the boys.  Nana sent us off with yummy chicken noodle casserole.  The boys are spending the night at Nana and Papa's house.  We are heading to Indiana!  We got there just after 10 pm.  Grandma had the sleeper sofa all ready for us.  Wyatt sure was happy to be there. 

11/28/22

Time to load the kiln

Adam was happy to be back in his bed again and got a good night sleep.  He was hard to wake up this morning though.  Jacob had Delta today so he left early too.  I finished unpacking and did some cleaning.  Then I brought out all the pottery that will get loaded in the kiln later. There was a lot.  Today I threw really big mugs on the wheel.  I made some rolls to have with our dinner.  Jared and I loaded the kiln this evening.  The boys helped us haul trays of pottery out to the barn.  We played some bedwars with the boys.  Then Jared and I played a game of 3-13.  

 

2022 Thanksgiving at the monastery in GA.

We traveled down to GA again this year to see Uncle Dee, Uncle Rick and Mom and Dad at the Monastery.  Left on a Tuesday afternoon and stopped for the night in Caryville, TN.  Had a good rest and then up the next morning and off to The Monastery.  No stop at the lego store this years…boys have out grown it a bit but would still enjoy visiting it and seeing all the cool sets.   We got to the monastery around Noon ish I think… then off to the grocery store with Uncle Dee, Uncle Rick, Mom, Adam and myself.  Divide and concur we all had our lists and attacked.  Adam came with Uncle Rick and I.    Uncle Rick was once again very generous and bought the food for the week.  Thanks Uncle Rick!  We really appreciate it.  We brought a game called Skip-Bo and taught Uncle Rick and Uncle Dee how to play.  We enjoyed a lot of games of Skip-bo with 4-6 people playing.  Teams was the most fun as there is so much to look at and absolutely no table talk.  Of course the table talk rule was broken so much I’m not sure if no table talk was the rule or to table talk was the rule.  But it was a riot - we sent the game on with Uncle Rick so he can teach folks at the Institution.   Lots and lots of laughs and fun.  We had fun teasing each other over the week.  Those older people on their phones.  Taught mom a few tricks on the phone with photos and how to favorite the ones she liked the most so she could find them easier… of course I think that ended up in her favoriting them all.  LOL  Of course that picture of the Eagles she took was so amazing.  Mom was bragging of these two amazing pictures of eagles she took…although she couldn’t quite remember where… well truth be told they were actually pictures she copied off Kimmy’s blog.  So that lead to more laughing and teasing mom of her pictures.  We went and visited with monks at the bakery and those that came to visit at the house.  We got to see the wonderful Taylor shop Fr. Peter Damion operators out of.  It was recently redone and is really cool.  Fr. Peter Damion is learning a lot.  We also got to see the Novitiate which was super cool as well.   Ate lots of apple pie - lost track on the number of pies this year.  Lots of ice cream was consumed as well.  Jacob performed on his clarinet many songs for us all. It was awesome, we all really enjoyed it.  Uncle Dee and Eli had a funny exchange going all weekend with various punctuation marks being said back and forth again this year… although they also added numbers.  Eli left a surprise for Uncle Dee on the fridge… “question mark?”  with the number 85.  Had really nice weather and went on some nice walks.  Another wonderful Thanksgiving at the monastery.  Looking forward to next year.  

Wednesday

Thursday 

Friday

Saturday

Eli caught a cat

Sunday

Lots of rain on the drive home.  There's a rainbow.

Meeting my sisters tortoise, Manny

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Jacob playing a song he is learning right now