Nanny has a birthday

Over the weekend Nanny had a birthday and Lisa and I kept her busy! She celebrated her 71st birthday on Friday the 26th, with Lisa and I by having lunch at the Scholar Inn (great food and atmosphere) and then to the Butler Victorian House for a tour. Beautiful home right by I 65, the neighborhood has changed a little since it was built in the mid 1800's. Next we were off to tour Crown Hill, one of our favorite activities to do, visit old cemeteries. I have a great picture of Nanny by the Thomas Marshall mosoleum. After pizza and a mean game of scrabble with Ashton (Nanny won), we went to the Casino in Anderson. Nanny and Lisa were the big winners! After another game of scrabble we went to bed!

The next day the girls and I took Nanny to the Huddleston Farm, with scenic drives down US 40 and the back roads of New Castle. May Nanny have many more bithdays and may we be able to enjoy them with her!

I am a good reader!

This past week has been just the girls and me and this picture shows how tired I can be by the end of the day. We read to Kennedy every night and she loves it. On Tuesday she wanted to read to me. Biscuit was the book and she read all of it with help on only 3 words. If you know Kennedy you know what an accomplishment this is! She would stop and tell me "I am a good reader!" Yes you are sis and we could not be prouder! Another accomplishment this week was the tying of shoes (I mean really tying them)! A big thank you to her teacher for the extra help.

Where was Tressa? No not on the couch with a snack in her hand, no not on the mule, no not on the computer...alas she was in her room catching up on "Americas Got Talent." She loves the show and is pulling for the 4 year old to win. Tressa loves for us to read to her to and right now we are reading "The Cat Ate My Gymshorts." It was written in 1974, and I was telling Tressa how there are some simalarities to me, I too was a Blimp at that age and my best friend was the Beauty. I wasn't too crazy about gym, mainly because I never could climb that rope and touch the ceiling, cheaters! I chewed my nails too and still do, but I am getting better. I may have been the Blimp, but I look better in the long run (although this picture does not show it) and I still have that best friend and she still is a beauty and always will be in more ways then one.

Labor Day Weekend

We had a great Holiday weekend and the weather was great too. On Saturday we went over towards Cambridge City to tour the Huddleston Farm Museum. In the 1800's John Huddleston and his family took advantage of the National Road (now U.S. 40) traffic and started an Inn/Tavern. The farmhouse was built specifically for this business and he was not only an entrepreneur in this but in farming as well. They had 12 children and other family members who had moved from North Carolina to help with the farm and business. We left there and tried to see the Farmers Pike Festival, that is east of New Castle (just follow the garage sales on St Rd 38). All of the traffic caused us to detour and head back home. I want to see the birthplace of Wilbur Wright which is just north of there, maybe next time.

Chris and the girls took advantage of the weather and went fishing down the road, as you can see Tressa caught the first fish!

Kennedy spent the night with Grandma and Papa on Saturday which she loves to do! It is a new adventure to play with Grandma's toys, help with the chickens and playing with Oscar and Snowy. Aunt Julie arrived from Colorado on Monday, we are glad to have her home and wish her the best as she prepares for this new adventure.