Last weekend one of our DMC turned 41.

So we had a little celebration.

.  .  .  .  first ~ dinner at Cheeseburger in Paradise.

followed by a few adult beverages at Jake’s Pub.

Then downtown to the Cadillac Ranch.

For drinks.

Goofy faces apparently.

.  .  . and some bull riding.

A good time indeed.

Happy Birthday Mikey.  We love ya.

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Today was the last day for our local Fall Foliage Festival.

This is an event that we always try to make it to every year.

Cade loves the rides.

Chris loves the elephant ears.

.  .  .  .  .and I love the cotton candy, and the pineapple whip ice cream.

It’s really the only reason to go.

well.  .  .  .that and the really cool items for sale by different vendors in the area.

This year the knitted hats were quite popular.  I saw so many teenage girls sporting these hats.

I was freezing and so were my ears so I got one too.

They also had the neatest little knit sweater/jackets with pointy hoods.

You know, like the very cool knit hats that you see babies get their photos taken in.

I just had to have one of those too.

Not for me of course.

They were much too small.

I do know a very cute baby whose mommy loves hats that would look uber cute in this little contraption.

The weather is perfect for such a thing.

I got a new point an shoot camera so I don’t have to lug around my big clunky camera everywhere for good photos.

I was so ready to part with my Nikon Coolpix.  I was very happy to sell mine to my friend Michele whose very same

camera got broken yesterday.

I’m definitely a Canon girl.

I never want another Nikon as long as I live.

Danny-o met us at the festival.

I think he misses home.

Cade and I shared this huge bag of cotton candy while riding the gigantic ferris wheel.

This is the county courthouse from atop the ferris wheel.

It’s ancient.

My Christopher waiting on his elephant ear.

The gigantic ferris wheel Cade and I like to ride on.

Now for a little sad news:

My Christopher’s ex-wife (aka Britt’s Mama) was just diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Could you please keep her in prayer?

Thank you.

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Last Friday we had a little party honoring my Christopher on his new position at Lifeline Pediatric Transport.

The following are our photos.

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This post is for all the lovely people in California who are a few of the lucky folks to receive a visit from my hubby Christopher during his visit back home. He’s been calling often and mentioning that he’s shown the blog to some of you so I thought I would share a little of his life here in Indiana with you.

I wonder often why he would choose to stay here in this unpredictable as far as weather is concerned place pretty much smack dab in the middle of the country so far from his family and many friends back on the west coast.

Of course those of you that know him well know that he is always the life of the party everywhere he goes, he knows no stranger and is loved by everyone he meets.

While living here:

He goes on “guy trips” to football games every fall/winter.

He plans birthday parties for me with all my best girlfriends, then “pretend” smooches my son in the middle of PF Chang’s just for a laugh.

He takes me to fancy New Year’s Eve parties in ritzy hotels with his best buddies.

He dances on tabletops at parties as the Colts score the winning points at superbowl 2007

He takes my son to “touch” the trophy the Colts received for winning above-mentioned superbowl.

He acts like a six year old while playing with my six year old.

He still visits the ocean, just on the opposite side of the country

He “pretend” flies a warplane while in a museum in Florida

He takes me to dinner cruises on the ocean.

He spends “Carb Day” with his buddies every year at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

He builds things, with a little help from his “now” father-in-law

He meets up with friends to see Jimmy Buffett in concert every year

He dresses in crazy tropical attire to go to said concert.

He follows the rule “you can only drink tequila or corona while at Buffett”. (I don’t follow this rule)

He enjoys time with crazy nurse friends working in PICU

He goes to the Pumpkin Patch and picks out his very own pumpkin

He rides all the rides with my little boy.

He carves pumpkins.

The tongue thing he has done since I’ve known him, which one of you taught him that? Teeheehee

He met up with brother Shane in Kentucky only to drive further south to Tennessee to watch Titans play football

He tailgates

He lifts my little boy to place the topper on the Christmas tree because he’s too big for me to do that with now.

He takes me to fancy seafood restaurants because he now likes seafood since trying it in Florida

He takes me to see Chicago (the band, not the place)

He sings karaoke at this years New Years Eve party

He plays a crazy “shock” game with my brother after getting entirely polluted on New Years

He takes me to the casino and to see “Air Supply”

He introduces new friends to his group at Carb Day this year

He helps me to bring my boy up to love sports by taking him to an Indians baseball game

He still goes to theme parks, it’s not quite Disneyland, but it’s still fun nonetheless

He goes to Chicago to see the Cubs play at Wrigley field.

Chris really does miss everyone back home in California and I know at times the thought, “what if” has crossed his mind. That’s why he’s visiting, and he will continue visiting, now more frequently because I know it’s just not easy being separated from family and friends for so long. I’m very thankful I don’t have that worry. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to join him on his trip back home and finally get to meet all the people who made him who he is.

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This week has been the week for vacations, excursions, and just regular everyday travel for some of us. Sunday morning at the crack of dawn my parents were up, packing up their camper and heading west. They really hadn’t planned a huge vacation this year with the price of gas being what it is, just a 1-2 week jaunt somewhere close by. That was until my Dad started receiving disability. Mind you he had to get cancer to get said disability, but when the Veterans Administration figured out about this they cut him a gigantic check to back pay him from January till now. It was so huge in fact he said he felt like cashing it and filling his bathtub with the bills and jumping in. I think he was joking. Maybe. . . .or was he? Well anyhow, they decided their little “jaunt” will now be for 6 weeks and who knows where they’ll end up. All I know is as of Sunday night they had made it to somewhere near Des Moines, Iowa.

Later Sunday morning Chris and his friend Dan packed up and headed to Chicago. I got Chris tickets for his birthday to see the Cubs play baseball. The following are photos from his trip there:

I’m so happy he took photos of buildings. I love buildings.

Not really sure, but this looks like a church, an old church.

I think this guy is pretty amusing. Notice his feet don’t even reach the floor of his carriage.

Navy Pier off in the distance.

I love the Great Lakes too.

Since it was dusk when he shot this photo it turned out rather grainy and makes this look like an ancient building.

Chris must have really been obsessed with this circular building or whatever it may be, he shot more than one photo of this.

Wrigley Field of course. This was one of the things on his list of things to do in his lifetime.

The back of a seat autographed by players on the 1969 Cubs team.

The game.

. . .and again.

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