Family Visit

On our way back from West Virginia we spent Sunday night in Knoxville. We were able to visit with my cousin David, his wife Sharran and my Aunt Olive. I had seen David and Olive at the Ham-Bilyeu family reunion but hadn't seen Sharran in almost 20 years.

A good surprise was that John (David's brother and my cousin) and Bonita had gotten back from their trip to New Guinea so we were able to visit with them as well.

They all came over to our hotel and we visited for a couple of hours.

David, Sharran, Olive, John and Bonita, thanks for coming to visit with us!!!

West Virginia Trip

Bruce and I recently returned from our trip to West Virginia. If was his first trip there.

We left here on a Tuesday and drove to Nashville then on to Jenn's apartment on Thursday. Kaylie, Ryan, Reed and Kelsie came over that evening and ate supper with us. Reed had just woke up from a nap and was not too sure of us, he was afraid of Bruce because he had a ball cap on. Needless to say, the cap came off and was not worn again!!! He finally warmed up to us.

While we were there Kaylie and Ryan had Reed's first birthday party even though he won't be one for a week or so. He was born nine weeks prematurely but as you can see, he's doing just fine.

The theme of his party was Elmo (or Mo-Mo as he calls him) and Jenn baked and decorated the Elmo cake. It turned out really cute. Ryan, Jenn, Kelsie and Kaylie all wore Elmo shirts.

Got some good four generation pics and pictures of Jenn and her girls Kaylie (19), Kelsie (15 1/2) and Brianna (13).

Enjoy.

Nashville

When Bruce and I went to West Virginia recently we spent a day in Nashville. He's a real country music fan so I knew that he would love the city.

We spent most of the day at the Country Music Hall of Fame. We toured the famed Studio B where tons on country music stars recorded songs. This is where Elvis recorded most of his songs. In fact, the piano that is pictured is the one he used and you'll see Bruce looking at a cabinet, that's where Elvis kicked the cabinet.

After returning from the Studio B tour we toured the Hall of Fame. I'm not a history or museum buff but I thoroughly enjoyed the Hall of Fame and spent just as much time as Bruce did looking around.

If you're a country music fan, put this on your bucket list!!!

Kiddie Land

Today Megan and Ricci wanted to go out to dinner so I graciously agreed to keep Parker. I decided we'd go to Kiddie Land at Lyon's Park in Waco. It's a very small place with about six rides and a train that goes around the park. He had a blast. He thought he was big stuff since: 1) he gave the attendant his own ticket, 2) he could ride everything except the train by himself. He drove a boat, road the train, drove the horse buggy, rode the horse on the carousel, flew a rocket ship and flew an orange thing-a-ma-jig.

After we finished at the park, we had just enough time to go by McDonald's and get Parker a Happy Meal and go to our house so he could eat dinner with Grampy.

Enjoy the pics.
PS - he wants to take Ashton and Landry there next time they come to visit!!!

Sorry, try Facebook

I have tried to post two Parker videos on this blog but for some reason they won't upload.

I have posted them on my Facebook profile. One was last week, Parker's Tools and today's is Parker's Pool.