Christmas 2010

Abi had her first white Christmas at the ripe 'ol age of 2. This was the first white Christmas for her parents and her grandparents too. It was beautiful! Fortunately, the roads were passable so it was a lovely, relaxed day with family.

Shame on me for not getting any photos of the rest of the family. With Laura 8 months pregnant it would have been smart of me to record her and Ben so Abi can look back years from now and see her history. Instead Laura took most of the photos with her camera. What was I thinking?

Abi loves to be outside, even when the temperatures are below freezing. She must take after her Grandma. :-)

She is such a delight. She's a lot like her Mom was at this age, willing to please for the most part but with definite ideas of how things should be. Part of that is being 2 but I think there's a lot of personality showing there too.

Here she is with Trisket who was happy to be invited into her lap.

Abi, Laura and I made Gingermen cookies a week or two ago. Abi had the most fun playing in the dough and later adding sprinkles. She didn't care if the sprinkles stuck or not, she just like shaking the bottle and watching the sprinkles fly! I want to add a whole slew of photos but instead I'll create a Facebook album and you can look at them there.

Larry is in the clouds.

Larry was in the clouds on Sunday... sort of. From looking at the photos you might argue that there were no clouds. You'd be right but he was flying high just the same.

Through a fellow CAP Member, Enrique (shown here in the yellow tow plane), Larry got an opportunity to fly in a glider. This is an opportunity that he's been excited about but wasn't sure how or when it would happen. CAP has a glider in TN and CAP wants people to use it but making that happen hasn't been as easy as he had hoped.

He and Enrique got to talking at the CAP

meeting last Thursday. Enrique is a real character... very interesting and very adventurous. He's upbeat, busy, creative and a fast talker with a heavy accent. He's a lot of fun to talk to. Though he loves to fly, hang gliding is his passion.

Anyway, Enrique flies just about anything but helicopters. He often tows gliders up and pilots gliders as well. He took Larry along with him this time. Larry had to wait a few hours as he watched others be towed up and glide. During the wait he was able to talk to other people who

were there to fly and learned a lot. When it was his turn to go up in the glider Enrique piloted until there were up and then gave Larry the controls. They were up for about a half hour but the air was cooling as it was near the end of the day and drew their gliding to an early end. I'm sure there will be more opportunities in the future.