We left for Indiana on the 23rd--the Denver airport was SUPER busy, but we had an uneventful and easy flight to Indiana. We had a plan to surprise Carter's Dad (his Mom was in on it). Carter's sister-in-law picked us up and brought us back to their farm (this is Jason, the brother with the alpacas). We had a great couple hours just playing around the farm--we played golf on his new "course", talked to the alpacas, etc. Unfortunately we didn't take any photos that day :-( All of Carter's siblings and their families all came over to Jason's house for dinner that night, and we surprised them all! Carter dressed in his Buddy the Elf costume and we hid in random places around the house to surprise people, it was a great time :-)
The 24th we shopped and bummed around most of the day, then in the afternoon we left for Aunt Carole's house in Brownsburg (she hosts every Christmas Eve) and got to hang out with some extended family (cousins and their kids).
The 25th was the big Carter-mas dinner! Everyone came over again, including Carter's sister from Columbus and her family. Here are some photos of Christmas day!
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| They all love jumping on Uncle Carter! |
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| Carter's youngest nephew, Nathan (7 months old) |
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| Everyone wanted a photo of Carter's new outfit! |
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| Carter and Kaitlyn, one of Jason's kids |
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| Carter and his oldest sister, Carrie |
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| Carter's Dad is really into bird feeders, he has TONS, and twice we saw piliated woodpeckers! They are huge, about 1.5-2 ft tall, beautiful bright red tufts on their heads. Just gorgeous! |
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| Another view of the woodpecker. There were at least 2 males, we saw them together once. |
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| Carter and Daniel (Nathan's older brother) |
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| Nathan gets a bath in the sink. Look familiar? |
On the 26th we slept in, played with the boys, and shopped in the morning (after Christmas sales!). In the afternoon we had a bonfire outside (the weather was GORGEOUS, so warm and clear skies) and explored the new barn, took gator rides to the creek and around the fields, etc.
The 27th we finally got SNOW! Just about an inch or two, but it was beautiful! We tried sledding but it just turned out into a mud hill (it was still fun). More gator rides, just this time in the snow :-) In the evening we met all of the Coopers at a local bowling alley for pizza dinner and bowling! I even won one game (I beat Carter AND his Dad! We talked about it for days!)
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| Makayla, Carter, and Nathan |
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| He's pretty cute. Look at all that blond hair!! |
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| The whole IN/OH fam (missing Brad and Barrett and his family) |
The 28th was our last day in IN. We went ice skating in the morning with Jason's and Meredith's families:
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| I'm a natural figure skater |
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| Colton, Jason's youngest. He was so cute, just kept RUNNING on skates! He was surprisingly fast and didn't fall much! |
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| Me and Jason and both of our hand-knit and then felted alpaca earmuff hats!! (I'll write more about this in another post, stay tuned) |
After ice skating we ate at Which Which and then left for airport. We had so much fun in Indiana, and we miss all the Coopers already!
3 comments:
Looks like an AWESOME trip! What are gator rides...?
A Gator in this case is a type of ATV but bigger than most, it sits 4 people. They actually have two, one is a Mule (I think kawasaki) and the other a Gator (John Deere)
ahhhh! Blonde people! haha....looks like fun.
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