Sunday, April 20, 2008

Has it Been a Month????

Wow, I can't believe that it has been a month since we posted something! You'd think we fell off the face of the earth or something. One of the reasons is that I was at training for two weeks in Columbus, OH last month. Daneen didn't really want to blog about how scared she was at home alone with Carson. So ha ha scary blogger stocker, tricked you!!! Daneen gets very ancy when I'm not here. I'm sure she checks that everything is locked at least ten, probably closer to a hundred, times before she goes to bed when I'm home, so I'm sure she wore the locks out a bit more when I was gone. To give you an idea of how worried she was that something was going to happen while I was gone, she actually had me call every morning to make sure that she had woke up every morning.......yeah, weird :). Here are a few pics that we took around Easter time and obviously failed to share. Better late than never right?

If Looks Could Kill.....


Bring On The Easter Eggs

There's The Happy Guy

Gotta Love the Dye!

The Mop Chop (he didn't even cry this time!)

Another good reason for our absence in the blog world was because Carson had spring break a couple weeks ago. I decided I needed to take that week off and that we were going to try and go do something fun. Well, trying to think of something fun at our house is a task all by itself. I don't know how many nights Daneen and I spent on the computer looking for something fun and inexpensive to do for a week. I think it wasn't until the Thursday before Carson had off that we finally decided what we were going to do. After considering Myrtle Beach, Six Flags, Charleston, and even Dolly wood (look it up on the web if you don't know what that is!), we decided that it would probably cost just as much, or less, to go visit my Grandma in Texas. So, we called Grandma on Thursday night and told her we were coming, double checked with my boss on Friday, and hit the road on Saturday morning. We left at 6:00am Georgia time and got to Grandmas at about 10:00pm Texas time. Let me just say, 17 hours in the car is a LONG TIME!!! Thank goodness we have been exposing Carson to long road trips all of his life and and a couple good long trips before he was actually born. He is an awesome traveler. We had a great time with Grandma. I think it's safe to say we all gained a few pounds eating some yummy home cooking. Since the whole trip was such short notice we really didn't have anything planned. We just hung out with Grandma and visited with relatives. It was great not having to worry about work. Before I lose you all again, here are some more pics.



Daneen's sister Diane lives like 45 minutes from my Grandma in Texas so we got to spend some time with her and her family while we were there too. The little cute blondie in the slide show is Claire, Diane's youngest. She came over to play while we were at Grandma's. She stayed with us for three weeks last summer and we all got attached to her. I thought she wouldn't remember me but apparently she has a picture of the three of us and she talks about us a lot. But instead of calling me daddy like she did last summer, she was stuck on calling me grandpa this time. It was pretty funny. She's got me wrapped around her little finger. She actually convinced me to go grocery shopping with just her and her mom. Go figure. And she was breaking my heart when we left their house. She wanted to come home with us and she was just crying and crying. If we weren't crammed full we probably would have brought her home with us.

Okay, that's enough for now. Daneen will have to fill in the rest of the gaps. She was actually suppose to be doing this post but decided she "doesn't want to blog" today. So After seeing Tausha and Sister Booth's comments from the old post I decided someone (me) should at least let folks know that we are alive and well. Hopefully I can get Daneen to put another funny post up or something, and some more pics.

-paul

6 comments:

Nancy Booth said...

Oh, it wasn't Miss or La, it was Texas. How neat! It broke your heart to leave Claire, now you know how I felt about you taking Carson away, huh? He looks great. You all do. You cut off all his stiff hair. Everytime I touched his head I thought I would cut my fingers. I loved it. Glad you're back and had a good time.

Lani said...

Hey guys! So glad all is well. Carson is so big. We miss you all and hope we will see you this summer! Does Diane have a blog? Daneen, how is your dad doing?

andrea said...

That's so great that you guys got to visit Grandma Cuca. And I'm so jealous that you have been eating her cooking. Mmmmm....tortillas.

Is it possible that Carson is starting to look MORE like you, Paul? Especially in the dirty look picture. Not that you give a lot of looks like that or anything....

Miss you guys!

Gates & Tausha said...

ahha...you guys are the best! AWESOME spur of the moment TRIP! LOVE that you turned into a grandpa for a few days..ahhaha...and daneen cracks me UP...calling her to make sure she woke up each day...SOOOO funny....i'm jealous of your trip! welcome back to planet blog guys!

Gates & Tausha said...

ps...carson looks older.

Marianne said...

Fun post! What fun to go to Grandma Cuca's! I have a picture with her on the same front porch!!! You guys look great! :)