Over the weekend, Thomas (now forever known as "Uncle Tom") & I went up to Blacksburg to see the girls. The trip up was a good one thank goodness! I don't like to drive anyway, and even less so after working all day. We got there in time for dinner. Gracie & Dave decided that Cracker Barrel would be just fine. The "old country store" was lit up like...well a Christmas tree! I love walking around in there and seeing all the neat stuff. After dinner we were all sufficiently stuffed and headed back to Gracie's apt. David, Gracie & Thomas headed over to Dave's abode to watch a movie. The three "adults" watched Shrek II!
Me, feeling older than I am was happy to take a nice long shower and read myself to sleep at Gracie's. I slept with the window open and the crisp mountain air was delicious! I slept really well. Saturday morning, Gracie and I headed out to the Farmer's Market. The Daliah's were so pretty and we loved the fried pumpkin pie made on the spot for us. After that, we needed coffee. We headed to Next Door Bake Shop for some Java.
While there, there was the sweetest little old man sitting with maybe his daughter. They were obviously talking about some serious stuff, like end of life issues, and every once in awhile, he would reach over and pat her arm. He was so sweet, and reminded me so much of dad.
For our afternoon "activity" we were going to Joe's Trees for a pumpkin...well we ended up heading to the thrift store and Kroger instead...I made dinner of meatballs and rice with a big salad for dinner and we headed to Pearisburg to see the girls. We finished watching the excellent ending to the Tech game and had a great time just sitting around talking. Gracie got the bright idea to give El's her sucker. That baby had a sugery mess from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet...she enjoyed every minute of it! Guess who got to hold her during that escapade! She is so sweet and quite a little spit fire when she wants to be. In her defense, she was teething, as she had her two bottom teeth pop through yesterday! Our baby is growing up...too fast.
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| El's and her first sucker! |
Late in the evening, we heard a gosh awful sound of every siren in Giles county going off. I thought something catastrophic had happened...we could stand in the front yard and see all of the lights. Come to find out, it's "Fire Prevention Week" and it was all a parade....well you could have fooled me! It made Jasper bark and it woke El up...
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| El's & "Uncle Tom" |
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| Jasper |
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| El's after her bath |
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| Hanging upside down..and loving it! |
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| Thomas with the Mountains in the background |
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| Beautiful...the leaves are just beginning to turn |
Gracie and I headed back to Christiansburg and Thomas stayed in Pearisburg. I slept so good again Sat night. On Sunday, we bummed around and headed back to the River city to start another work week....I guess I need to stay home next weekend! I've been gone for two weekends in a row, and the house and laundry look like it. It's all good though, because all of that will be waiting for me when I get to it...baby's and kids don't keep!
