Thanksgiving

In the morning Devyn was watching Renato and Brianna fly a kite. It was windy enough that Brianna had trouble holding onto it.

Don & Zola joined us for Thanksgiving, here's the fellows resting up to eat while dinner is finishing cooking.

Wonder what there were thinking?  Yup, it will be a long drive back to Michigan?

                              Do you think there are happy?

                                        Three generations

Yes, I was there too.  I had a birthday and this is my hamburger......well cake!

Play time!

Renato's mother and brother Roger and his family came over for the day from Biloxi to visit and we all went to The Track for some fun.

                       Here's Renato catching up to his sister in law with Devyn behind them.

                        The herd rumbles at the downhill turn.

           After the track time Brianna & Dustin took to the air.

                   Then it was off to the horse track with granny.

                              Ya gotta take a train ride too!

And now it's time for the water bumper boats with healthy squirt guns. 

Family time

All the kids stayed in a rented condo in Orange Beach so we spent lots of time there.  While Judy, Jody & Devyn entertained and played with Brianna and Dustin Randy & Renato were busy in the kitchen.

The gangs all here!!

Jody, Renato, Brianna & Dustin are here for Thanksgiving AND Randy and Devyn surprised us by coming down too!

All three grand kids love the water so after burning up some energy here at the campground playground the next stop was the pool.  Here's Devyn with Dustin, Judy, then Jody with Brianna. The guys are not water bugs like the ladies and kids.

I didn't make it to the zoo one day but Judy took this shot with Devyn and a lemur.

Water aerobics

Judy loves water aerobics and has been leading one at Gulf Shores for years.  Most of the ladies have also been coming for years.  She told me it's pretty much in auto mode right now as the ladies have the routine down very well.

Halloween, nuts & friends

One of Judy's Adrian, MI water aerobics friends, Theresa, & her husband passed through the area so we had lunch with them and spent the day exploring with them.  Here's Judy & I at Fort Morgan.

On Halloween zombie Obama came crawling out of our sink.  I sent him crawling back into the waste tank.

Here's Don & Zola, Tom & Heather, Craig & Jenny plus Judy & I at Mikee's for this winters first group Friday lunch outing.   

                        Outside relaxing in some great weather.

We took Don & Zola to the Broken Branch pecan orchard, here they are unloading some that were just picked up.

Here's a couple shots of the orchard.  We have been going here for pecans since 2008 or 2009. 

       Here's some Alabama snow, you know what that is Jean.

While we were getting nuts we stopped at Judy's favorite BBQ joint, LA BBQ.  (LA= Lower Alabama)

Judy loves a 25 pound bag of roasted unsalted peanuts, I'm not her favorite nut anymore?

We went hunting for nuts and bagged 10 pounds of cracked pecans and 25 pounds of peanuts.