Thanksgiving and Christmas Time!

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Nov 272013
 

hello everyone.  There has been a decidedly black hole here at 6 matthews.com.  We have gone most of 2013 with few updates, and several draft’s of posts from last year.  Pathetic on my part.  Today I start over.

English: Saying grace before carving the turke...

English: Saying grace before carving the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner in the home of Earle Landis in Neffsville, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Happy Thanksgiving!  Yes it is Thanksgiving time again.  There is so much that has happened over this past year to be thankful for.  Amelia didn’t go to the hospital for anything this year, that is the most important.  We are all relatively healthy and happy now and looking forward to our big meal.

After a fun Halloween season and party we have been “normal” in our house for about 3 weeks now and after this weekend, we will be bedecked with Christmas….Santa, trees, red and green, lights….the whole bit.  More on that later.  Just suffice it to say, the end of the year is nigh, and out family is doing pretty well.

Thanks to all of you who have helped with that over the year.  You know who you are.  We are thankful for you.  Have a great Turkey Day.

-Justin

Lithograph, Home To Thanksgiving, published by...

Lithograph, Home To Thanksgiving, published by Currier and Ives. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Camping with the older kids

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Nov 272013
 

The last weekend in September brought about a new chapter in our lives.  Splitting the family for a couple of days.  This year for my birthday the rest of the conspirators in the family decided that it would be a good time for me to go with Leatha and Cameron, into the woods by ourselves.  It was justified as “too cold” for the younger kids, (it was), and a good “bonding time” with the older ones.

So with that, we got things together and left.  We decided that, well I decided that we were going to save some cash and not camp in a campground.  That has always been fine with me, I get tired of campgrounds anyway.  The kids had a new experience.  They had never stayed anywhere without the flush toilets and concrete fire rings of a campground.  Cameron called what we were doing  “fake camping”.  I just had to laugh, because it only gets more real for him when he starts backpacking in Boy Scouts.

We got to the lake, drove up one of the side canyons that we have always wanted to explore, and

***Editors Note****

This post is not finished.  But it is old.  Over a year now.  So, I am posting what there is, and the pictures from September 2012.  NO more old stuff after this, only new posts.  Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming in the next day or two.

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