Great day at Sunken Gardens!

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Went to Sunken Gardens with Meghan and saw some lovely wildlife and plants, and then went to Jackson’s to meet Adam and Jeaux.

Ivy & Meg at Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Ivy at Sunken Gardens

Meg smelling a flower at Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Fish at Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Tortoise at Sunken Gardens

Fish at Sunken Gardens

Ladies at Sunken Gardens

Sunken Gardens

Jeaux & Ivy at Jackson’s

At Jackson’s

Davenport Vacation Day 5

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Davenport Vacation Day 5 involved sausage and biscuits breakfast, swimming and chilling on the porch, and Thai noodles with hot and sour soup and spring rolls, plus GAME NIGHT.

Sausage Gravy & Biscuits Morning

Dare & Ivy porch hangout

Dolly & Steve porch hangout

Dolly, Steve, Meggie, Dare porch hangout

Dolly, Steve, Meggie, Dare porch hangout

Peanut-covered thai noodles

Thai noodle group

Thai noodle group

Davenport Vacation Day 4

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Davenport Vacation Day 4 involved omelet breakfast, pajamas until after noon, cinnamon rolls and coffee, watching a movie (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged), lasagna and garlic bread and salad, and Cards Against Humanity.

Adam & Meg

Cinnamon Rolls

Coffee & a cinnamon roll

Jeaux “Spite”

Jeaux “Spite”

Whole group in Davenport house!

Meg & Adam

Meg makes lasagna

Dare lasagna pic

Meggie lasagna pic

Dolly lasagna pic

Steve lasagna pic

Jeaux lasagna pic

Adam lasagna pic

Ivy lasagna pic

Cards Against Humanity

Cards Against Humanity

Cards Against Humanity

Cards Against Humanity

Davenport Vacation Day 2

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Davenport Vacation Day 2 involved swimming, ukulele playing, games, chicken marsala with mashed potatoes and broccoli for dinner, and oatmeal cookies made for dessert. Arrival for Katelyn, Ryan, Benjamin, and Adam!

Meg, Dare, Jeaux in pool

Meg, Ivy, Dare cold

Ivy bathing suit

Blondies

Ukulele with Dare & Ivy

Dare plays pool

Katelyn & Ryan playing pool

Ben playing games

Meggie & Katelyn in the kitchen

Meg’s chicken marsala came out great

Chicken Marsala dinner

Chicken Marsala Dinner

Oatmeal Cookies

Dare & Jeaux eating oatmeal cookies

Ivy’s cookies

Davenport Vacation Day 1

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Vacation Day 1 involved arrival at our vacation house for me, Jeaux, Meghan, and Dare! We chose rooms, played games, and had enchiladas for dinner. And I made some blondies late at night.

Hanging with Dare

Meg, Dare, Jeaux checking out TV

Enchilada Night

Enchiladas!

Making Blondies

Jeaux playing arcade games

Frozen room!

Frozen room!

Frozen room!

Frozen room!

New Year’s Day Breakfast

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Small gathering for New Year’s Day–my tradition of serving breakfast! We made waffles, mini omelets containing mushrooms and swiss cheese, hash browns, biscuits, soy bacon, sausage, and fruit. Mom, Jeaux, and Lindsay came.

New Year’s Breakfast!

Mom, Jeaux, Lindsay at New Year’s

Second waffle for New Year’s

Linds enjoying the pillows

Christmas Eve Meal with Family

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Sister Lindsay and brother-in-law Mike were in town for the holidays so I had them over for Christmas Eve with Mom and Jeaux. Yummy dinner, but everything was kind of on the cold side. Bad management.

Holiday cookies

Homemade tomato soup

Scalloped Potatoes Jeaux made

Cornbread Jeaux made

Garlic mushrooms!

Chicken Mom brought

Dessert plate! One of everything.

Christmas Eve group