During the Fall, Emma played soccer again. Here is just one shot of her at a game. She really enjoyed the season despite not having enough girls to fully field their team.
Nathan and Hannah and their family plan to visit Florida annually during Christmas or Thanksgiving, rotating each year. Our other Texas children come at the same time so we can all be together. Last year it was the year for Thanksgiving. Now that they are a family of 7, even with some being free, purchasing tickets is too cost prohibitive for Nathan. With the needs of the little people it would be a two day trip, each way, which would eat up 4 of Nathan's vacation days. So they came up with an alternative suggestion of renting a house for a week located half way between Dallas and Cape Coral. Then no one traveled more than one day. We all chipped in as we were able and got a 6 bedroom house near the Gulf in Miramar Beach. Our household and Nathan's household left on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. We stopped in Tampa to visit our friend Art, who had had surgery at Moffit a few days before. It got cold on our way northward so it was very chilly when we arrived and unloaded. A few hours later Nathan's car arrived and we were so excited to see the crew. Joel and Kelsey had also arrived a bit before us but opted to stay at a hotel. Katie and Christiana arrived sometime Tuesday. David and Emma had college classes on Monday (why in the world was that??? Those college board folks should have their heads examined for that) so they drove up Tuesday too, arriving around dinner time. Caleb arrived next from Gainesville, so it was the shortest drive of us all. Zach arrived last and flew in Tuesday evening. Joel and Kelsey were leaving on Wednesday so we had a 2 hour window that morning to do our newest family photo. It was so bright in the morning and we are so light sensitive that we didn't get a lot of shots where someone wasn't squinting. But, at long last we finally got my beach shot with denim and white. It will always be my favorite. Here are some of the shots from that wonderful week.
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| Leaving after church on Sunday and packed to the hilt. |
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| Snuggle time the first morning. Does life get any better?! |
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| The house we stayed in. We had 6 cars between us all. |
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| We took a trial picture before Zach arrived just in case the beach didn't work out the next day. |
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| Joel's Iphone takes great photos! |
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| Florida's version of a snow man, in sand. |
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| Blikstad family November 2019 |
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| Thanksgiving Day feast |
We all left Saturday morning, each going our separate ways. Our car stopped to copy the bulletin for the following day at a print shop along the way. This is one of our favorite memories.
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