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| New friends: Paul and Melissa D. |
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| A cottage-style house. Don't you just love it?! :) |
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| Another cottage-style house |
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| A beautiful mural in downtown Rockwall |
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| On the 21st, my family and I went to Tyler to visit family. But it was mainly because Mom's Dad (Grandpa "Poppy" Russell) is retiring from his job at a Christian highschool. In this photo, we are about to start on the scavenger hunt that Mom made about Poppy's work history. |
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| First clues |
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| Decorations in the bus we took for the scavenger hunt. This sign says, "Senior moment in progress". Ha! :) |
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| Poppy-- the thinker |
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| First person to be picked up with a clue-- Uncle Abe |
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| One of the other stops was Andy's Frozen Custard parlor |
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| Cousin Nick with another clue |
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| Mom-- with yet another clue |
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| Atwoods was also one of the stops in the scavenger hunt. We picked up Aunt Jill and Jaden there, along with... |
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| ...this little chickie :) |
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| Cousins Lexi and Bayle were at another stop with Joel |
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| A clue |
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| Lexi reads a clue aloud to Poppy |
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| Cousin Taylor was picked up at the truck-stop |
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| And Mr. Mike C. was picked up at Brookshire's |
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| At Brookshire's we had to get out of the bus to find the next clue and person... |
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| ...and this is who and what we found |
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| Next clue |
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| Great Aunt Peggy also had a clue for us to pick up |
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| As did Aunt Jennifer. Her signs says, "Retired. Will work for food." Ha! |
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| Phoebe, capturing Poppy's reaction when we arrived at the fancy restaurant-- the Villa Montez (pronounced Via Mon-tez). |
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| Going into the Villa Montez |
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| Phoebe-dee |
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| Abs |
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| The chicken dish |
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| The shrimp dish, which Abby and I had, was SO good! :) |
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| The beef dish |
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| Mom's special dish with guacamole and all |
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| The surprise ride to the last of the day |
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| Classic |
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| This was the last of the day (the 20th). A surprise party! :) |
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| The food line |
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| Great Aunt Catherine (Poppy's younger sister) made this cake for "Bubby" (a.k.a Poppy, Gramps, Grandpa Russell). |
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| Visiting |
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| Fondu |
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| Cute Logan and his Mom |
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| Mr. Mike Duggar and Phoebe talking. Mr. Duggar is Jim-Bob Duggar's Uncle. |
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| Jaden enjoys playing with the baby chick. Poppy let him keep the chick and we have been having fun taking care of it. We had a GREAT and hectic trip -- wait? Can you have both?!. |
4 comments:
What fun!! =)
Agreed! ;)
~Jo
Looks like a lot of fun!
Thank the Lord we are well and safe. We had rain today but nothing else.
I hope you are ok.
Hello Valerie,
Thanks for commenting!
Yes, my Grandpa's party and events were SO much fun! :)
I am glad to hear that you are safe from the terrible storms. We are fine, and even though we had at least one tornado come past where we live, we had no damage (except our onion plants a *bit* damaged). It was all windy and green outside.
Thank *you* for your concern!!
~Johanna
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