Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful day yesterday. Pappaw brought oyster stew over for breakfast yesterday morning and then about 5:00 Mammaw and Pappaw came over for dinner. Oyster stew is a Baldwin family tradition, we have it every Christmas. For dinner this year we had Roast Beef, (or as Bethany and Daniel call it, Roast Beast) mashed potatoes, Gravy, Salad, Rolls, and 2 kinds of Jello salad. We were going to have carrots and peas too but mom accidentally turned the wrong burner on the stove on and burned them. We had pumpkin pie for desert. We decided to skip the normal turkey and ham since we are having that with the whole family Saturday. After dinner Mammaw, Pappaw, Mom, Dad, Zach, and I played a few games of Rook. We had a good time. Mammaw kept getting bad hands so finally she switched seats with Dad and got a GREAT hand. I mean she got an excellent hand. Anyway we had a good time. Today we spent most of the day cleaning the house as the Cox's were supposed to be coming to visit tomorrow. Something came up and they will be coming Friday instead. So we will be doing our cooking for the family dinner tomorrow and our visiting with the Cox's Friday. We are so excited about their visit. Tomorrow I'll be at mammaw's cleaning house then I'll come back and do a little cooking for Friday and Saturday. Anyway I need to go. I should have a few stories and maybe Pictures if I can get them to work next time I blog. Goodbye.

Hey everyone I'M POSTING!!!!

Hey everyone, I'm back. Sorry I haven't written in such a long time but no one reads my posts anyway so who cares! Though this time I might actually come up with a pretty good excuse. (or excuses?!?) How were every one's Thanksgivings? (which brings me to my first excuse....) We went to Florida for Thanksgiving and had a great time with our dear friends the Cox family. It was a lot of fun except for the fact that Abby, Ruthie, Francie, Noah, and Caleb all got sick in one form or the other. Noah had it easy he only got a cold. The last night we were there, Beau, Josh, Zach, Daniel, and I finally succeeded in pulling our often futilely attempted all nighter!!! (ok so we stayed up till all dedicated farmers and hunters are up, 4:30) Oh yeah you know how I said all the little ones got sick while we were there? Well, Bro. Jerry and Josh were sick the day we left. Then Nathan was sick the following Sunday so everyone got sick except for Beau and Sis. Betsy. We arrived home 5:30 Tuesday morning. We tend to leave late and drive all night. We did school Wednesday then Mom and Dad and micah went to Richmond for an orthodontist appointment Thursday. The rest of us kids stayed home and did school. Mom and Dad got home fairly quick and my dad told us that he had just got a call from my pappaw. My dad's oldest sister, Diane, had just passed away around 11:30 that morning. That ended school for us for a few days. We went right over to my grandparent's house to be with them then Mom and dad and mammaw and pappaw went to Richmond to be with David and the kids. Friday the family all started coming in and the family night was saturday and the funeral sunday. We had family around till the following tuesday. (That's excuse number two) Tuesday we had to go to Richmond for another ortho appointment. We did school wednesday then Thursday everyone went to Richmond except for daniel and I. Neither one of us was feeling very good, in fact I was feeling down right sick! I still felt pretty bad friday. (that's excuse number three) I'm feeling better now except I'm congested. We have all been practicing for our church play. The play is Sunday evening. Our church Banquet is saturday afternoon. It's going to be different this year, we're having Fried chicken instead of turkey or ham! (you might be southern if...) Well i think that's a fairly nice, fairly long, fairly newsy post don't ya'll? well I'll post again later when I get a chance.