A long November...

November was a busy month for us. It started with Jim and Ellie taking a trip to visit his family in Ft. Lauderdale, then Jim and Rachel took a much-needed kid free vacation to St. John, followed by nearly 2 weeks in Ohio at the end of the month for Rachel & the kids. Meanwhile Jim had a work trip to Las Vegas during the first week of our Ohio trip. Needless to say we are happy to be home for a while, but we enjoyed all of our wonderful trips! Here's a pic of Ellie in the cockpit of the airplane on her way home from Florida and one of the view from our room in St. John.

We need to give special thanks to Grand Jane and the McCrackens for taking care of Aidan and Ellie while we were on our trip to St. John. And more thanks to Grand Jane for driving back to Ohio with Rachel and the kids. We got so used to having Grand Jane around, we are going through withdrawal!

Our Ohio tour took us to Centerville to stay with Aunt Sarah & Uncle Dave where Ellie enjoyed chasing their cat Remy! We spent Thanksgiving in Loveland at Aunt Pam, Uncle Luke, Cole & Zach's house. We got to see Papaw Tom, Linda and Andrew as well as Bob, Kay and Greg Alkire (Pam's family) on Thanksgiving too.

Ellie loved playing with cousins Cole and Zach and asks every day if we can go to their house. I guess she forgot it takes about 10 hours in the car to get there. But maybe she had so much fun, she doesn't care. During her pretend play times, she always goes to Cole & Zach's house (our dining room) or goes to the store with Aunt Pam (also our dining room). Luckily we'll see them all again at Papaw Tom's for our early Christmas weekend.

Check out our November 2008 photo album to see pictures from Florida, St. John and our trip to Ohio.