This year for vacation Chad's parents came and we went to Bodrum (south west Turkey) for vacation. It was a beautiful place that we stayed and we saw some sights around, as well as, swam at the pool and the beaches. Below is a link to LOTS of pictures from our stay.
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| 2008 Bodrum Vacation |
We went to Sapanca with some friends. One of our friends also had parents in town. It turned out to be a beautiful day and we even had a little Easter Egg hunt.
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| 08March Sapanca |
Grandma and Papa G and Kaden and I took a trip up to the black sea on a boat. Once there you can climb to the top and look out where the Black Sea and the Bosphorus meet. It was a nice cool, clear day. Kaden wore a monkey leash that we borrowed, he really liked it and wore it all day long. He mostly held hands though and walked the whole way without complaint! What a good little guy. There were some birds we saw that were being fed, they were funny to watch, Kaden laughed and laughed at them.
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| March 2008 Bosphorus Boat Trip |
We took lots of park pictures, trying out the new camera. Also, we went up to Camilica one day.
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| March 2008 At the park |
We had an early Christmas present unwrapping of the things we got from R&P an GK&PP (it is grandparent code). We all enjoyed our gifts and we had fun playing with Justin's lincoln logs.
We spent a night at a hotel with family from surrounding areas. There were grandmas and papas and aunts and uncles and cousins... The hotel had a pool and mini golf and shuffle board, something for everyone. We ordered pizza and everyone brought something to eat! It was just like a family reunion with all the food. It was so weird for Chad and I to be in a hotel where they let you bring food in from the outside.
Here are some more pictures from the park we went to last week. These are Papa's pictures and he got some of us on the exercise equipment, which was fun for everyone but Kaden, he had to stay in his stroller.
This is from our Team Christmas party. It is as close as we got this year to a Christmas picture.
On Thanksgiving Day the kids went to school till 2:40, Chad worked and I cooked. We went to a friends house in the afternoon. I cooked the Turkey, a pecan pie, green beans and mashed potatoes. My pie was runny (I still don't know why), the Turkey was not done all the way through and just before we were going to carve it, Ashton threw up in our friend's kitchen. With all this, Thanksgiving was actually still a good time. We enjoyed being with our friends and there was edible food, even some parts of the turkey. Later that night Chad had friends over and they watched some football, I am not sure who, but someone won and it was great!
Ashton didn't go to school the next day and it took her the weekend to get over her thing, but she was better by Monday. Everyone but Justin had some version of a cold, he managed to be fine throughout, but everyone is fine now. The day after Thanksgiving we put up our Christmas decorations. Justin loves all the lights. I am not sure Chad appreciates them. He is always walking through the house turning off lights and saying "why are there so many lights on?" I can see Glen doing something like this. Well, that is what happens when it gets dark at 5:00 PM and sometimes earlier because of the constant cloud cover.
