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When we were visiting the McFamily in NC, we also got to head down to Steve & Heidi’s place in South Carolina for some amazingly tasty, falling-off-the-bone ribs! Pace’s Uncle Steve and Steve’s wife Heidi are temporarily living in a house that’s right on a lake. We loved seeing the views from the house and going down to the dock to see the pretty lake!
Charlotte enjoyed hanging out with Heidi (thanks for holding her, Heidi). They even started making the same facial expressions! I especially love this little sequence of photos:
If you like eating cookie dough, and specifically Nestle cookie dough, here is an important health announcement.
Nestle’s U.S. baking division said on Friday that it was voluntarily recalling its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned of the risk of contamination with E. coli bacteria… Nestle said the products involved in the recall included all varieties of Nestle Toll House refrigerated Cookie Bar Dough, Cookie Dough Tub, Cookie Dough Tube, Limited Edition Cookie Dough items, Seasonal Cookie Dough and Ultimates Cookie Bar Dough.
Sorry this actually came out Friday… so hopefully you didn’t have a girl party over the weekend that included a tub of Nestle cookie dough.
Here’s more from the trip, from when we were in Charlotte, North Carolina. Congrats to Tyler, who graduated from high school! Here he is with Grandpa & Grandma Lipps. It was the best graduation ceremony ever, because it was short ‘n’ sweet (1 hour)! But right afterwards we experienced the hugest downpour of rain, so the grads were sopping wet for their photos. Exciting for them!
One of our afternoons was spent at a fun game place, that featured TONS of kid activities. Chase loved the inflatable jumpy section, and all the arcade games. Pace and Tyler dominated Laser Tag, as they were the oldest in there by about 10 years. Uncle Cotton and Chase competed against each other in some intense mini bowling. And I just got in Pace’s way when we played on the same team in air hockey…
I was also excited to see 3 of my friends from my Costa Rica Study Abroad Program (in 2004). What an exciting, life-altering experience our study abroad program was—I think about it all the time!
Chelsea, Brindi, Mary, and I were all in the Charlotte area at the same time, so we met up and chatted over pizza, admiring the families we now have, and catching up on things. Ryan and Chelsea go to church with Joey and Candace, who Pace grew up with, so they joined us as well. We LOVE seeing old friends!
Our cute Little Ones. Chelsea’s baby weighs the most out of the 3 babies, even though he’s the youngest! 🙂
We had a great time in Charlotte. Thanks SO MUCH, McGrandparents, for having us over for such a long time, and for being hospitable as always!
We just returned from a trip to North Carolina to visit the fam there! For the first few days we were able to go to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was a blast—fun and relaxing at the same time! Pace got a good deal on a big room at a kid-friendly resort, so we took some of the family with us and headed out there! Here are a few photo highlights:
We had 14 people staying in the big hotel room, and boy, was it a party! It was really fun to be able to have some of the relatives from the Keck side there with us. Chase finally met his second cousins Aden and Alex for the first time, and also got to play with Luke, who we haven’t seen since he was a baby. The adults also got to stay up late playing games and walking out on the beach after the kids were asleep. What a great trip!
And here’s a photo of all the cute little second cousins. (Hannah, Addison, and Kyle were not present but were missed!)
We are on vacation and having a great time. Joy actually said to me, I can’t believe it’s Sunday tomorrow already! We are having so much fun we also haven’t taken time to blog. We both wanted to tonight, and I beat Joy to it. So she is going to blog more later, as we have plenty to talk about. To whet your appetite for Joy’s post, I uploaded some photos to picasa and wanted to put this video up. Enjoy the images.
Goodbye analog… anyone miss it?
The 2009 Season of McNFL is ready to begin! I have sent out invitations to everyone who was involved last year as well as some people who weren’t (hint hint McGrandaddy) but most email junk filters will catch these invites from yahoo and send them directly to your trash so if you have not received an invite just use the link provided here.
Last season was tremendously exciting for everyone involved and I am proud to announce the McChampionship Trophy was FINALLY wrestled away from the Keck household where it had resided for the first two seasons in the hands of first Tiffany then Brad, but last season was finally my time to shine and the McChampionship Trophy is now on the East coast. Congrats to the past champions and good luck to you all as potential future champs. The game is simple as long as you can pay attention to some simple injury status updates (i’m sure facebook will put out an application for it someday)
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