Christmas in VA

We celebrated our Christmas early this year with the kids since Mayra was going to be in Mexico and Crystal back in northern Virginia on Christmas day. Travis, Rob and I will be in FL celebrating with Ama, Gram Moore, Uncle Brian, Caitlin and Siena.

Rob's Birthday 12-16

We celebrated Rob's 43rd Birthday with all 3 kids here. Crystal went to Lynchburg and picked up Travis and Mayra from school and they arrived on Friday night with much laundry and very tired eyes. Saturday we made Rob breakfast and then had cake and ice cream. He relaxed most of the day and then we went to Season's for Dinner and then to a Christmas concert that evening.

Christmas is coming

Rob and I went with our friends, the Cooks, to see hear the Community Choir at the Methodist church perform "The Messiah". THey do it every year and are just fantastic. The voices were spectacular and the orchestra very professional. It is comprised of people from all over the community who come together for 4 practices and this concert. You come away from it filled with a wonderful christmas spirit.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving in PA with Rob's parents. As is the custom, we had ravioli along with all the other traditional Thanksgiving goodies. Jane made apple and pumpkin pie too! Mayra came with us and we did A LOT of shopping out with all the crazies trying to get some good bargains. (which we did!) We also got to shoot the pistol out in the woods. I was a pretty good shot and almost took down a tree branch with the 357magnum shells. Mayra hit the target a few times and Rob and Bob are old hands at it. We all enjoyed some nice rest and relaxation (and some good card playing) and then were back on the road to take Mayra back to school and us back home. We certainly had/have many things to be thankful for this year.