A much belated post of our December

Hello Readers!

Yes, this is a post on December;) I know it's so, so, late but I really loved these pictures so I just had to post them!
The first two weeks in Dec. we were traveling about up North and we went to Michigan to see my dear Grandmother, Nanny and dear Grandpa Charles! We had such a blast playing cards, our fav. past time with Nanny-O who is the Champion of cards! Right after we arrived it started snowing! Nanny had two sleds for us to play with and we were out there for hours! It was such a blast! We also got to go to two very interesting museum's; The Children's museum and Meijers Garden.


I small hole-in-the-wall town we stopped at! It consisted of two gas stations, right across from each other and a little donut shop! How cute!

Our Hand-n-foot tournament begins!!

Which one to lay down?

Yuchi and our Chorus of snowman!




Our King and Queen

Maud, you're so much fun! What would I do with you?!

At the Children's Museum

Daddy and the boys standing in front a of piece of the Berlin wall!

Daddy pointing out the piece in the picture


Learning about the different kinds of fish

When I took this photo I thought of my dear Sis. Adeline! She is the ultimate Hat-connoisseur and whenever I try on a hat or even look at a hat, I wonder what she would think of it! LOL! So here's to you Addie!

This man has such an interesting job. He uses the old printing press and makes flyer's and what not for the museum! It was so neat to get to watch him work!

At Meijers Garden

And here we all are (except me, of course) in the cactus halls of the lovely Meijers Garden, one the largest indoor botanical gardens in the States!


Nanny's very own Cactus





We had so much fun with y'all Nanny and Grandpa! Thank you so much for showing us around Michigan!
Bethany

To Arizona and back

Day One

About two weeks ago my brother Alan and I took a load of wood out to Arizona for our Cousin Daniel! It was so neat! I'd only been to AZ once and I didn't remember it so it was a really interesting to see this different part of the U.S. And it is REALLY different from the South East!
We left on Monday, around 3 a.m. Not a good time to start a long car trip! We made it about half way through Texas though. Not bad!
G.P.S, Sunglasses, Flag, little music device thingy...yup, we're all ready!
Charlie tightening the load

Yeah! AK!! We're half way to the half way mark!

My handsome bro!

Ahhh, all sorts of things to remind me of family and home!

"Look! Only 1085 miles to go!!!"

A beautiful sunset at the end of our long day of driving.

Day Two

Day two finds us in New Mexico. Land of shrubs and buttes!! I've never seen land like this before. LOL! It's so flat and NO trees! Wow!

New Mexico may have been flat and kinda boring but it did have a very beautiful and rather large flower garden at the rest area!

When we got to Arizona there was a gorgeous Mountain pass that we stopped to take pictures in!!The camera had decided to act up just then so the pictures are too bright but it really was just breathtaking!!
A little creature that I have no idea what it is! ;)

Alan saw this old car! LOL!

More pretty mountains!

Uhh, and more mountains

hmm.. I'm sure your wondering how many pictures of the mountains I'm going to post;)

Just one more!
We dropped our load that day in Show Low!! Yeah!

We were then able to drive over to our Cousins house for the night! Thank y'all so much for letting us drop in at such a late hour!

Day Three

After a much needed nights sleep we spent a wonderful day with our dear cousins! The girls showed me their neighborhood, dogs and we got to meet some of the sweet people in their Church!

The youngest S. member. Such a cutie!

The girls

And their dog, Squiggle!

Me, taking a nap

Charlie talking with Kate, and taking a nap!

They have these trees everywhere! They look like toothpicks to me;)

Day Four

Well, day four we headed towards home wonderfully refreshed and fed and *sigh* eating sandwiches againHmm, here's something you don't see everyday in Ga!

Day Five

OH! dear W. family, it was so good to see y'all again! Thank you so much for the beds and chow!

Hey! Its the B's!!!

Well, around half way through Texas we got really desperate for home and I quit taking pictures;)

We finally puled in around around 6 a.m. Saturday morning, SO happy to be home!!!

It was a wonderful trip all together! We even found a Krispy Kreme out in Texas! LOL!

Since then we've been busy with the wonderful everyday things of life, just enjoying the summer. I hope to post some pictures of our summer happenings some time soon!

Till then!

Dios te bendiga,

Bethany