About to take down the Halloween decorations and start the month of thanks. I will post pics of the Halloween activities later when I get a chance to go to Aaron's office where I have Wifi. Meanwhile, I just wanted to start the month saying thanks, specifically to my sisters, Cindy and Tammy. The past couple of months have been crazy with surgery and trips to Texas and they have been great about letting us invade their homes with our craziness. They have been the airport shuttle, car rental service, car repair service, bed and breakfast and lunch and dinner. They have graciously put up with my whiny overly tired and emotional children. They've encouraged Maddy and all of us and just helped look on the bright and funny side of things even when going was kind of rough with surgery recovery or figuring out how to walk on a weak ankle without a cast. I really don't know how I would have made it without their help over the last couple of months.
Back in April, we decided we needed to do a short family getaway after the semester was over. The last time we'd been on vacation just to vacation (not going to see family in CO) was when we went to San Antonio when Maddy was 3 months old. We found Beavers Bend State Park close to Broken Bow, OK and decided to go there. We booked a cabin in the state park and eagerly awaited the day we could take off for our getaway. We left on Sunday afternoon and stayed through Tuesday afternoon. It was short, but so fun and relaxing. We had no computer and no cell phones while we were up there. We just got to enjoy being around each other and the beautiful scenery. We built a fire and roasted some marshmallows. Also popped some jiffy pop. Aaron had never done one of those before. This is a 100 year old cabin they had at the visitor center. I like the mud chinking ( I think that's what it's called). A couple named Comma and Mabel lived in the cabin when the CCC was building t...
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