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Trip pictures finally!

I won’t post too many from our Baltimore part of the trip because Robert has a lot on his blog. Make sure to check it out!

Here is Levi with a hat that his Great Uncle Larry had. He had a lot of fun with Uncle Larry and Aunt Sallie.


We went to a pond that had ducks and geese at it. Levi liked looking at them. Check out the sweet raccoon hat!

There was also a great park near the pond. Can’t wait to go back when Levi is bigger!
My 2 favorite guys enjoying the crisp cool Maryland air!

Maryland is known for their crabcakes. We met my Mom and Charlie ( they were visiting my Uncle Francis, Aunt Janet and Aunt Betty) at Boxhill Pizzeria. They have been awarded best crabcake. Let me tell you, they were SUPER! We forgot to take pictures before we started eating.


Here is my Aunt Betty, Levi and Robert. We couldn’t get too close to her since Levi carried lots of germs and I was sick. She is currently undergoing cancer treatment so we didn’t want to get her sick.

Levi enjoyed visiting with my Aunt Janet. Uncle Francis had to go back to work and Levi was asleep so we didn’t get to take any pictures with him.

I will be working on the North Carolina pictures later today.

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North Carolina

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After spending time in Baltimore with my family we drove down to North Carolina to spend time with Kendra’s grandparents. The seven hour drive down there actually wasn’t too bad, Levi did a good job.

Once there I had a disagreement with a pipe, leaving us with no bathtub for Levi to use. This led to his first bath in a sink, at the age of 9.5 months. It was an interesting experience. The first time went okay, the second time was all screams.

Here he is trying to escape. There was a pot holder above him, which distracted him for a little while, but not long enough.
Here’s mama and son hanging out on the porch after church.
And here’s the view. Another pretty one after our time in Baltimore. We didn’t want to go back to Houston, the views near us are lacking.
Another trick Levi learned on his trick was sitting up then pulling up to standing in his crib. This is great fun, even in the middle of the night.
Hats are delicious, especially Texas ones. After all, Texas is the best, even if the stupid Big 12 tiebreaker robs them. Of course that’s another post.
Here’s a view from Bath, NC, oldest city in North Carolina and former home to Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. Yes, we were standing near where a pirate once lived. Pretty cool.
Here’s an attempt at a self portrait using a stump as a tripod. Not so great. I guess I should have brought the handy tripod that I left at the house in the suitcase.
Here we are hanging out on the dock. In the background is a giant catamaran. The neighbor actually built his own sailing catamaran, which is really awesome. That’s not it in the background though, its behind that one. The one in the background belongs to a friend of the neighbor.
This is Brandy, sister to Kendra’s mom’s dog. She is also the reason I didn’t sleep well some nights. She likes to bark, at 1 am, because rain is hitting a leaf and it needs threatened.

And for my last picture I give you this gem. Self portraits with a baby can be dangerous.
That’s the last of our vacation pics, exception for Levi’s Santa picture, which may get its own post if I put it on here.

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Park It

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Since we were on vacation we never rushed to get ready in the mornings. Here’s my Aunt Sallie on their porch with Levi enjoying a beautiful morning. The live north of Baltimore, far enough out that the views are just awesome.
Here’s Kendra with Levi enjoying the same view.


And here’s a great shot of the view. Its just beautiful up there.

Here’s Levi adding some bonus fingerprints to the windows. He loves banging on windows.

We went to an awesome park near my aunt and uncle’s house with Levi. The park was built by different people in the community and has to be one of the best community parks I’ve ever seen. Here’s Levi checking out a bell system they had. He enjoyed making noise with it.

A closeup of the system. Just a striker and a metal tube. Joy for our little guy.

We discovered that Levi loves to swing. They had one of the baby swings that makes it very hard for the kid to fall out. Here’s some video of him swinging. Notice his death grip on the swing.

He did eventually let go, and was still having fun.

Later daddy took him for a swing on his lap, this was also fun. The camera couldn’t handle the focus very well though, so I go in and out as it struggled to keep up.

A shot of us coming towards the camera.

Here’s Uncle Larry swinging with Levi too.

Here’s Kendra with Levi on the play area, like I said, it was a really nice playground.
After the playground we went to a park just down the road with lots of birds, more for Levi to check out.


Here’s a great picture of people feeding the geese in the background. The best part is the lady in the white shirt doing the feeding is parked right next to where I took the picture. She parked in front of the sign in the foreground, the one that says “No feeding the water fowl”. Nice.

One more batch of photos to come, and watch out for goose poo.

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Great Holiday deals. On the side bar of my blog I have several deal sites. My friend Sarah also has some on her site. Here are some things that I found recently.

Trip post in the works. Until then, I found some great online deals for Christmas cards. I just ordered 30 5×7 photo cards from CVS for 5.38! They are normally 10.00 for 10. Make sure to read all the comments before you start your order on Kodak. Cheap cards.

Also, here is a site for a free 30 day trial to Consumer reports.

Here is a link for a free Arby’s sandwich.

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