Andrew Alpaugh Blast From the Past

We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving in the Smokey Mountains! Hopefully good memories our children will cherish when they are grown. We managed to pull off cooking dinner in about a 4x5 foot space called the kitchen! It all turned out and everything was delicious! The kids shot some hoops and Bryson had a good ol' time just running around and picking up leaves while we waited for the Turkey to get done. Later that evening after Bryson was in bed we played a game of Cranium. The front desk had games that you could check out. Definitely not a game I would care to play again! The day after Thanksgiving we headed over to Dollywood. The weather was gorgeous and could not have been more perfect. Bryson was in awe at all the lights when it started to get dark. I think the first time ever he has actually sat in his stroller for a whole day without fussing to get out. There was lots to look at and it kept him busy thank goodness. After that we headed back to our condo to e...

Okay- I admit I'm a little old to be making my first made from scratch crust, home-made apple pie, but I gave it a shot and it turned out great! Can't wait to make some more. Deeeelicious!

Found this while searching through Picasa for something else- what do ya know. Same glasses 5 years ago from Boo in the Zoo. :-) Not much has changed!

Bryson weighed in at drumroll...... 28 pounds (with all clothing on) and was 33 inches tall! What a BIG boy!

It's finally over! I'm sooooooo glad to have all those pests out of my freezer! Fortunately, we had experience from already doing this with Tyler so we pretty much had it down pat. The worst part was actually collecting them. We got lucky with a few or to me not lucky, perhaps it seems God sent them to us! One of the butterflies was just laying there already dead in our yard (it pained me to freeze the live one that Andrew caught) they are so pretty. The dragonfly and the HUGE fly were lying side by side one day right beside the driveway (already dead). The beetles were pretty funny- one night we heard loud clicking noises out on the patio and went to see what all the noise was and low and behold there was the biggest beetle I'd ever seen on it's back jumping all around. Of course Andrew was the one to capture him. The two red velvet ants I found on the same day which we later found out is a wasp that stings really badly. (little did I know) I was spraying aw...