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Christmas 2010 at Station #3

This year we celebrated Christmas at Station 3 since Lindall and the guys were on shift. All of the families came up for dinner and brought sides for the main dish that the guys prepared. Station 3 dinners are always excellent! Robyn brought sugar cookies and icing so the kids could decorate christmas cookies. The guys didn't have any calls all afternoon which was great! We had such a good time with everyone and it made Christmas very special for us even when daddy couldn't be home. We're so thankful for the sweet families that Lindall is on shift with.

2010:Dalton & Santa at the North Pole

Janna and I took Asher and Dalton to North Pole City to take pictures with Santa this year. We arrived early to be first in line and to hear the Christmas Story about Jesus told by Santa. The kids all loved it!

Dalton's 1st cont'd

Dalton's 1st Birthday!

We celebrated Dalton's 1st birthday at the Parkhurst Pumpkin Patch in Arcadia, Ok. We had so much fun!! Of course Dalton wasn't nearly aware of all that was going on around him but he had fun too! We first enjoyed roasting some hotdogs and marshmallows and eating some yummy birthday cake...(made by momma). Then all the kids got to pet all the animals...they had goats, rabbits, pigs, horses, cows, chickens, and more. Everyone hopped on the tractor pulled trailer for a hayride and then we all took our pumpkins and went home! It really was such a great 1st birthday celebration....much deserved for our precious little man.

Catching up....

Soooo I've been a slacker at blogging! Let me catch up on a few highlights of our lives since we last blogged...I celebrated my 29th birthday in July 2010, cousin T and Dalton got lots of play time at Papa T and KK's, and Dalton was the cutest lion I've ever seen for Halloween! We had so much fun showing him off (and eating his candy!)

Nashville Bound!!!

Our week definitely ended up much better than it started! Last Sunday night Lindall and I spent the WHOLE night throwing up....evidently we ate something bad! We narrowed it down to some pork sausage but we are the only one's that got sick, so who knows. All I know is that I've have never been so sick in my life! After 8 hours of non-stop vomiting...we headed to the ER to get some relief. They prescribed some meds to stop the vomiting and told me to share it with my husband when I got home....and it worked! Although we were completely worn-out it was much better than the alternative. Definitely a night we will remember!

Thursday, Dalton had his first airplane experience! We flew to Nashville, TN to visit Grandma D. He did really well on the plane. Even though he didn't sleep during the flights, he was really content...and entertaining to the row behind us:) He did manage to work up a poopy diaper on the 2-hour plane stretch...which meant we had to use the plane lavatory changing table. It wasn't that bad actually. After we landed, Grandma D picked us up at the airport and we headed home for the evening. So the experience of the airport and baby went really well, thank goodness!

Saturday we had an exciting day! We started the morning at the Nashville Farmers Market. Their farmers market is the real deal. All home grown veggies, fruits, flowers, organic meat, eggs, cheese, and milk (in the neat glass containers). They also have a flea market section with dry goods (clothes, jewelry, pottery, etc). We ended up leaving with a variety of tomatoes, bell peppers, bread, a variety of squash, and flowers. So we'll cook those up this week.

After the market we went over to a quilting shop that DeLone had found in Lebanon. I've been wanting to make a quilt (even though my sewing portfolio consists of burp cloths with fabric sewn in the center part). So I looked at fabrics forever trying to figure out what I would like to use on my quilt. It was a really neat shop with TONS of quilting fabric. Then my little man was ready for a nice long nap so we went home to recoop.

That evening we went to Leipers Fork to Puckett's Grocery for dinner. Puckett's is a whole-in-the-wall old grocery store that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Wednesday through Saturday they have live entertainment at night. Its all acoustic and they usually have some locally known singers/songwriters...even some famous locals drop in from time to time. Loretta Lynn's daughter, Peggy, was one of the entertainers this Saturday. She also brought her daughter and her niece. There were a couple of other guys that sang too. It was really good! The people here in TN are so down home and just so nice...I could live here for sure!