We all gathered up to see the dinosaurs. Wayne walked down memory lane. He had a quarter of high school taught at the Fernbank Science Center campus. It was a whole quarter of intensive hands on science. He reveled in it. I could see his eyes light up talking about that experience. It was fun to walk in to see these huge dinosaurs and then all these classes of kids eating lunch at their feet.
One of the funnest things was photographing the frogs at different exposures with my Dad while Wayne watched the girls.
We had our own lunch at the Varsity. It’s fun to indoctrinate the kids early. I forgot how heavenly the onion rings are.
Ann joined the chaos that is our family. We got to visit for a few hours in the afternoon. I think Skylar and Justin came over at the same time. Wayne gave me a chance to talk and we got our photo session. This was the best shot from the bunch. I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since we had gotten together. Shows what having kids will do to just about everything in life 
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We tried an interesting travel pattern to get to Atlanta. It was literally trains, planes, and automobiles. Open jaw flights are difficult to arrange. We wanted to fly into Atlanta and out of Nashville. Do spend less money, we wanted Southwest. So we flew into Birmingham. Our flight stopped in Salt Lake for a layover (we stayed on the plane) then flew to St. Louis where we had a very short time to change planes and no time for supper. Then we arrived in Birmingham and drove for 2.5 hrs to Atlanta. Let’s say I don’t want to do that again.
When the girls arrived, they immediately plunged into Nana’s toys.
Sara integrated her horses with my old ones from childhood.
Laura explored the Fisher price castle (cute photo).
Shark attack!
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Even when you try hard to have a nice quite holiday season, sometimes God throws curve balls.
It all started when the door handle broke off with me and Laura inside, she was screaming. Eventually pulling the hinge pins and having our neighbor knock down the door solved that problem. Of course later that night I broke out in hives, and I also broke out in hives the next night; I thought it might be time to see an allergist. Then later in the week, I left the lights on in the van, of course I did not realize this until Monday morning when I had to call Karen out of her clinic to come rescue me. By now it was raining very hard and our garage had already flooded, and of course I fell in the water trying to push a very heavy mini van out of the garage to jump start it in the pouring rain. Then later that evening the flood really came as water poured in from the walls of the fireplace and came up through the floors. Our church group quickly came over and helped me save our home theatre, books, and furniture. Once again our neighbors saved the day by loaning us their shop vac. I vacuumed 200 gals of water up over the course of 12 hours. Then of course we all got sick, I came down my sinus infection after seeing the allergist and learning I am highly allergic to cats (no results yet on avocado, which also explains my banana allergy, since avocado, banana and latex are the same allery group). Then I called my parents this weekend to learn my sister had an anaphylactic reaction to the latex paint she was using to paint her new house, and just got out of the hospital today. Maybe Santa will be extra nice to us when Christmas day finally arrives (assuming we all make it to that day…)
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This was our first snow. The weirdest weather for Seattle occurs in late November and early December. Snow, pounding rain and winds. We used this photo of Laura for Xmas photos this year. (I’m writing this in March 2008). I remember Laura just wanting to crawl in the snow. I tried to feed her snow while Wayne took photos. It was brief 20 min jaunt to prove we were there.
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