Guys Road Trip

Dad and Connor left very early Friday morning (Jan. 18th) to drive to Memphis, TN. After a 15hour long drive, with a couple stops at Bass Pro Shop and the firework store, they finally made it there!! Most of their time there was spent at Memaw and Gramps (Daddy's parents) house in the country riding four wheelers or shooting off fireworks with cousins. After church, Connor, Cade, and Cole rode four-wheelers the enitre rest of the day!! Connor was loving it!! On Sunday evening Memaw made a very tasty, southern, homecooked meal for everyone. Complete with mac and cheese, candied yams, country ham, black eyed peas, and greens. Connor and Dad left Memphis at 4 in the morning on Monday and made it safely back to Chesapeake that night.

Connor and Cole.
Connor riding through the lake in Memaw and Gramps backyard.
Cade and Connor.
The yummy meal.
Memaw and Gramps with their grandsons.

Driving through the mountains.

A Weekend Without the Guys!

This past weekend Dad and Connor drove out to Memphis,TN. So it was just the girls at home. On Friday night we went over to our good friends', the Adams, house (Mark, Susan, Laura, Andrew, Rebecca). Their kids are almost the exact ages as us Richards' kids so we get along with them real well and always love to be with them. There we played a crazy game of Apples to Apples and ate yummy ice cream. Saturday was a fun day for Kara with Basketball games in the morning and 5 of her friends over to play in the afternoon. On Sunday night Kaitlin went to her friend's, Chara, 20th birthday party. A bunch of girls first met at Chara's house were we got all dressed up to go out to dinner. We then carpooled down to the beach to go eat dinner at a pizza place where the guys patiently waited for us (we were about 45min late!!:). After pizza we headed to one of Chara's friends house who lives down at the beach and ate cake and ice cream. It was so much fun!! Another exciting thing that happened this weekend was SNOW!! It started Saturday night, but was a very wet snow. It did not stick in the streets, but there was a light dusting in the yard when we woke up Sunday morning. Mom also continued her tradition of making cinnamon rolls when it snows. They were so yummy, as always!!

At the pizza place.


My friend Kevin in the middle.
Gabe and Chara's facial expressions in this pic are so funny!!

Mrs. Adams and Mom playing Apples to Apples

Laura and Kaitlin
Rebecca and Kara

Happy New Year!!

The party that almost got cancelled turned out to be a great time. We ended up having 26 friends at the Richards' house to help us celebrate New Years Eve. We first ate and played a couple of very fun group games such as, Catch a Phrase and one that we made up. Afterwards we had a time of worship, where Connor and his friend Paul played the guitar for us. Finally it was 12 o'clock and all of us kids walked through the neighborhood streets singing Auld Lang Syne. It was so fun to have all our friends with us to help us ring in 2008.