We have been busy too. When we said we were going to have Alina come stay with us for the school year, we all began thinking about all the "things" we needed to do with her this year. I think we have done all of them so far. Since my last post (in addition to school, dance, church, etc.) we have gone to a University of Georgia football game. We also went to Calloway gardens Fantasy in lights as well as spent some time going through the gardens (butterfly's, flowers). Yesterday we went to ride the Pink Pig in Atlanta.
We also went to see Santa. Let me stop here and explain the issue with this. I hate how early the stores and everyone does Christmas so early. Don't get me wrong. I love Christmas and what it means (birth of our savior) but I hate the fact that people start "celebrating" in August. One of my standard lines is that I do not want to see Santa in the mall until Thanksgiving. If I do then Santa will not come to our house on Christmas. Kelda and the girls have given me an extremely hard time about this "silly view". I was told every year to get over it. With Alina staying with this year and us at the mall for the Pink Pig, we asked the girls if they wanted to sit on Santa's lap and get a picture. I went along with it and I saw Santa before Christmas. We were able to do it with no line and, with our busy schedule it might be the only time we could do it. Now I am getting a hard time from Kelda about "giving in" for Alina but not my kids. Doesn't matter that we always got pictures for Gabriel and Victoria with Santa when we wanted to do it (just after Thanksgiving) Guess I can't do right no matter what I do.
Thursday we have a busy day. We start off with breakfast at our house. This is a tradition for us. This year Delores, Tammy, Zina and Scott, David, Dick & Judy me & Kelda, Gabriel, Victoria and Alina will be there. We are adding Jamie (Gabriel's boyfriend) and his family. Sometime around lunch we will start getting out Christmas decorations. The afternoon we will eat at Sandra & Harry's (Delores' sister). Finally we will eat dinner @ Dick & Judy's with much of my side of the family. I will try to post pictures of these events.
I have pictures of all the events mentioned above on my Facebook page. Go check them out.
