Sunny Days: Fall and Winter 2019

Merry Christmas 2019

Back in Tennessee in August where we enjoyed weekends at Floating Mill State Park where Leeton and Holden joined us and rode their bikes, made friends and ate s'mores. One little boy and his brother kept coming over for Holden's Gatorade and were full of tales. The youngest had been banned from electronics for the rest of his life (he was only 7!) because he had stayed up most of the night on YouTube and gotten caught. Sign of times? We lost our dear friend David Hunsucker to the ravages of Frontal Lobe Dementia --a form of Alzheimer's --so we honored and laid to rest one of our best buddies.
In September we went to Knoxville for a football game and stayed, along with Robin and Julia, at the Coliseum. The game was awful (we lost to BYU in overtime and we were supposed to beat them soundly) but the RV accommodations were really good and we scouted them out for the future.

We went to downtown Nashville with Steve and Sally for the NASCAR burnout

Craig, Connie, Julia and Robin helped bring in football season

Craig and Robin were in Nashville's Veteran's Day Parade

In Knoxville for the horrible BYU game we went with the crew to Stormin' Crab

My beautiful friends came over for a Christmas cocktail party

The first 2 weeks of October were the kids fall break so we took off for Pensacola Beach for a week (Leeton got 2 darling bikini's and we found that both children have not inherited any golfing skill--Putt Putt was a disaster that may take us a few years to get over). The second week we stayed in Nashville and shopped, found crawdads, and played with Iris--the Greenlee's cat. A highlight was a cruise on the Cumberland River with Bruce and Carolyn--the kids still have their sealegs and so do we. Holden went from training wheels on his bike to riding Leeton's bigger bike.

The kids love Pensacola Beach

So did Lolo

Bikini's are a must

Man of the Beach

November we cleaned house and got ready for the holidays --I played some bridge, and Fitz winterized some boats at Commodore. After a low key Thanksgiving with the kids and Brooke, time started rolling down hill. Leeton had an awesome piano recital and Holden a great Christmas program. We welcomed the Women's Club dinner group at our home with a holiday Christmas cocktail party, some of the Knoxville UT tailgaters came to our house for a BBQ dinner and the Leetons immersed themselves for a fun Christmas gathering. With new joints (ankles and hip) for Nancy, Andy and Phil the group was somewhat gimpy but we played cards, talked sports and politics and had a fun time. The Barksdale's Christmas Party was wonderful and Leeton hit down one of the piñata's. Nick got a coffee table from Santa and Fitz got a weight set. I must have been the best of all because I got a new Fitbit, new Teva's and a box of Godiva (how long will that last?!?) Leeton got real makeup, Katie a new phone and Scott, a Ring doorbell. After the Best Christmas Ever (Holden's words after he opened his metal detector) we had no rest for the weary.