Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -Catching up!

My, oh, my!  I am woefully behind posting to our blog.  So this will be our Christmas/New Year's blog.  This was the first year we did not celebrate Christmas as an entire family due to the fact that Lily had an extreme case of strep throat the day that they had planned to drive to Ohio.  In order to save poor Lily a 9 hour drive and to spare her cousins the possible gift of strep, Trish decicded to stay in Dover for Christmas.  We still had Christmas with Sara, Matt, Evie and Arthur ( who was especially cute this year!) and my brother and his family.  It was a full house and a great time but it felt just a little empty by 4 people.

As luck would have it, Trish and Chad made the trip with the kids on Wednesday before New Year's weekend.  We spent a day and a half at Great Wolf Lodge in Cincinnati with the cousins, both Foulks and Neufarths and grandparents included.  Unfortunately, Trish got sick as we were leaving and did not enjoy much of the weekend. (Lily told me that it was her fault that mommy got sick, but it wasn't strep so we decided it must have been someone else at the water park)  It wasn't the Christmas we had planned but it all worked out and we had lots of fun. (except for the sickness and the Ohio State-Clemson game, that wasn't fun)  I did take Luke and Lily to see the movie Sing which we all enjoyed.  Best animated movies of 2016:  Zootopia, Storks, Moana and Sing.  Best soundtrack: Moana!