In September we made a couple of trips back to back. First, we went to PeePaw's house in Summerville. While Vivian was deployed my Dad decided to have Aaron come to do some work in the kitchen. Over the last year or so he's tiled the kitchen backsplash & made new cabinet doors. This time he made a few adjustments to the cabinet doors & painted the rest of the cabinets. From what we hear, Vivian loved it when she got home! While Aaron worked, Nora & I played.
She has this best dog friend, Russell. He is the BEST dog. He is so good to Nora...and she isn't very gentle. He is her favorite toy at PeePaw's house. He is also who Nora always asks to talk to when she facetimes him. She loves that he will show the dogs on the iPad and get them to bark and howl. Nora loves Cherry (Shur-ree) too, but she gets tired of Nora. She is really good & moves away from Nora (or hides in PeePaw's room) if she's had enough.
One of her other favorite 'toys' there are the chickens. She loves running after them. I'm sure they don't love it.
Nora forcing Daddy to take a break from working. He loves it.
We were there several days. One of the days we went to the farm. Aaron & my dad shot guns so I took Nora, Russell, & Cherry home. That way no one was spooked or in danger. Nora loved the car ride with the pups.
One of the things Nora & I did to entertain ourselves was to go shopping. Summerville has about any store I would normally go to, so it's pretty convenient. We made a trip to Target...our favorite store. Then, we went to TJ Maxx. Nora fell in LOVE with some dress up shoes. It was really hard to get her to put them down. That was the first time I ever had to take her out of store screaming for something. It was not fun!
When we went home and told PeePaw about the shoes he told Nora she could get them. He gave her the cash & we went back to the store the next day. She was so excited! She also fell in love with a princess set but she already spent her money. We went next door to Party City & found her a crown, wand, necklace, & ring for 39 cents each. Way more manageable than the $12 set she wanted & she was just as happy. Aaron called & asked us to run to Lowe's. Yes, I let her go into Lowe's just like this:
After those high heels came home she did everything in them. Actually she still does. That's another post to come soon!
After Aaron finished the kitchen work, we headed to North Myrtle with April & Travis. They were vacationing there & invited us to come for a day & night. We all had fun. Nora was especially glad to be back at the beach life. I think April & Travis just invite us so we can bring the entertainment: Nora. She steals the show the whole time.
We weren't there for Travis' birthday, but Nora sure dug into the rest of his birthday cupcakes! She is definitely a frosting girl. =)
We walked down the street and went to a little diner for dinner. Its called the Hot Diggity Dog. Nora's hot dog did not disappoint her. Their food was pretty good, but their dessert was great! They had some crazy chocolate cake & a delicious fried cinnamon roll. Oh it was so good!
We were really watched over while we were there. The night we stayed at the beach, several cars got broken into--including ours. We were blessed that the only thing they did was open Aaron's toolbox in the truck bed & take a speed square. Unfortunately, they broke it trying to break into others' cars. Luckily they didn't bother with all the more expensive tools inside Aaron's truck. We definitely consider the whole thing a blessing (& felt horrible they used something of Aaron's to cause so much damage to the other cars)!
We stay busy & travel a lot it seems, but we have some great family & friends to be with! Yes, I had the packing/unpacking. Yes, I hate the mound of laundry we have when we get home. And yes, I hate all the riding in the car time. But, the fun we have & the memories we make are all worth it. As the recently hip phrase goes: You Only Live Once...right?
