Christmas with Grammy & Aunt Kathy

After a whirlwind trip to Gatlinburg we came home to our first Christmas celebration of the year. Grammy and Aunt Kathy came by for a dinner. It was my first attempt at lemon butter sauces, fish, and corn chowder. The corn chowder was pretty good. As for the rest of it, OK I guess.

Jack really enjoyed his presents. He snatched up a Diego bicycle and the Diego Dino Adventure.

Gatlinburg Again

We met with Mr. Freddie and Mr. Joey in Gatlinburg. It was good to see Hannah, Joey's little girl for the first time in years. Jack had never met her before. It was a rocky relationship for the weekend. All in all, though, we had a good time.

Thanksgiving 2008

This year Thanksgiving was celebrated at our house. But this year we were not in total isolation so had a few guests. Grandmama, Granddaddy, and Uncle B joined us for dinner. It was a nice, quiet day. It makes me sad that the rest of the family couldn't visit, but with marginal counts Jack couldn't be around the illnesses floating through the rest of them.

Welcome to Jack's Playground!

So I finally have this blog updated throughout the majority of Jack's life. This blog is really more of an archive of past posts that would be spaced a little further apart compared to the daily or weekly entries of Jack's Caringbridge page.

Old posts that have been transferred from AOL (2004 - May 2008) have photo slideshows attached. However, AOL pictures will be closing Dec 31, 2008 so those slideshows will diappear.

To the right you will find a link to Clark Color where you can see my Jack's Playground group room. Just click on Jack's baby photo to be redirected. You will have to sign up for an account there to be able to view the pictures. Hopefully I will figure out a way to post them to this blog soon.

Please feel free to become a follower of this blog by clicking the link to the right. Also, let me know what you think.

Halloween 2008

Jack couldn't quite figure out what he wanted to be for Halloween until about 2 1/2 weeks before. Well, that was about the time we were leaving for vacation, so we didn't order a costume just to have it sit on the front porch for a week. Yep, ordered... Jack wanted to be Larry Boy. Larry Boy is the superhero version of Larry the Cucumber from Veggie Tales. There are no commercial costumes out there for this character. Even the regular Larry costumes are sparse. There is a lady of eBay who makes great Larry Boy costumes, though. However, when we got back from vacation it was October 26. By that time the prices on her costumes had sored to $60. By the time I thought about it they were $75. Needless to say I was then in a delimma. I had Jeff buy the regular Larry costume. We had a Larry Boy hat from the Veggie Tales show. So, I went out to JoAnn's Fabrics to get some purple and yellow materials. I made a purple cape that Jack liked wearing. Then made a superhero shirt that was never touched. In fact, when October 30 came along and the Larry costume arrived, Jack decided he didn't want to wear his Larry Boy accessories at all. It was a little sporadic. Plain Larry for school and some of the grandparent's houses. Larry Boy for others. This year we went to all the great-grandparent's houses to Trick or Treat. It was a long drive but nice to know that they got to see him in his costume this year. Likely in the future we will just stick around our house and do the door-to-door thing.