Happy Thanksgiving!

We have had a pleasant day just hanging around the house, cooking and eating. Sue's sister came over from SC, and our friends Anne and Julie came over to share the feast with us. We watched Spiderman 3 in the basement to top the day off. Hope your celebration of our blessings was good!

Still "Going Steady"

Sue and I are celebrating our 25th annniversary of "going steady" today! I remember vividly how I gave her my class ring that night after her high school band had been at contest all day. It was exciting to be dating her then, and is still exciting to be dating her now :-) Woohoo!

Jacob did his Eagle Project today

He had a lot of people helping him, from his fellow Boy Scouts to parents/leaders in his Troop to friends from school and friends from church (many more than were around for the picture above). It was good to see him lead the efforts to put up the flagpole and do some landscaping around it at the local food pantry. You can see pictures of his and everyone else's efforts at http://picasaweb.google.com/davidholly/071110071117JacobSEagleProject.

Quick game on a Friday night

Well, I had a good week working in Virginia, and came home this afternoon. I took the family out to Fuddruckers hoping Jacob would get to eat an ostrich burger, but they didn't have ostrich here in Georgia. We went home with full bellies anyways, then played a quick game of dominoes (in honor of Sue's friend Cathleen being in town :-) It was a fun night, and I'm really glad to be home.

Happy Birthday, Megan!

Our beautiful daughter turns 14 today! Sue threw a slumber party for her and had 13 girls at the house overnight - whew! Megan said she "had a blast" and that she was up until 4:30am (obviously I wasn't there :-) Happy Birthday, baby!

Hectic evening

Tonight is one of those nights Sue and I knew would happen someday, and now we realize it will be happening more and more as the kids get older. Jacob is at the away game with the band, Megan has a middle-school band concert, and Stepehn and Kevin have the Fall Festival at their school. On top of that Sue, as a PTO officer, has helped organize and set up as well as has to work the Fall Festival! So we divide and conquer - she's got the little boys with her, I'm at the concert with Megan and a video camera, and Jacob is out there in the stands or on a bus. Whee!

Good Cub Scout campout this weekend

We all went to Spook-o-ree this weekend. It was a lot of fun camping
with the Cub Scouts, and I learned a lot from Richard and Robert on
how to do all the little things that have to be done by the Cubmaster.
The boys all seemed to enjoy it, and the none of the parents grumbled
or anything so I think it went well. It was lots of fun!