After Kristen and Joel came, I took JoAnn and Isaiah over to Ohio for the weekend. We hung out with them for a few hours and then my mom drove over to pick us up. She was a major trooper. That had to be one of the longest days for her. I asked her to stop by Sam's Club with me so I could get a few things and it was closer if we went right before we left Indy. Then about half way we stopped so we could eat and I could feed Isaiah, which is when I realized that I had forgot diapers for Isaiah. Now tell me how I can forget diapers. I'm still amazed that I did that. I was just going to let it go until we got to Columbus, but somewhere around Dayton Isaiah was screaming and would not calm down. That usually signals it's time for a diaper change. So we pulled off of 70 and stopped at a Meijer that is right off the freeway and picked up some diapers. By the time we made it back to Columbus we had turned a 3 hour drive into a 5 hour trip. My poor mom was so patient the whole time though.
The next day I went with my parents to my grandma's house. This was the whole reason we went to Ohio. As a kid my parents always took my sister and I to the Parade of Hills in Nelsonville, Ohio. It's a small town carnival and is literally 2 blocks down the road from my grandma's house. When I was really little I have so many memories of going down the road, playing a few games and winning things like invisible ink and goldfish that would die the next day no matter how well you took care of them. I also remember that my sister and my cousin would always want to go back to ride some rides at night and I was too little so one of my dad's uncles would go with us and take me on the ferris wheel. Which brings me to the only other thing I remember about those times...Aunt Anna's fudge. She had the most amazing gift of being able to make fudge that was to die for. I loved it when her and Uncle Howard would meet us at grandma's because it meant I could go ride the rides and come back for fudge after. Anyway, I had decided that I wanted to take JoAnn to play a few games and then sit in front of my grandma's house for the parade this year. I mentioned something to my dad's cousins, Debbi and Carol, about it and they decided it would be fun to get a big group together. So we headed to Nelsonville for a few hours. It was so fun. JoAnn loved playing the games (which have gotten ridiculously expensive) and we only played the games that had that nice little sign saying "Play til you win." We played two games and I thought oh good, it may be $5 a game, but at least that will provide 15 minutes of entertainment. Oh no, the nice workers were very eager to help the 3 year old that wasn't quite able to win without help. We played two games and including the time to walk the 2 blocks there and the 2 blocks back I think it lasted about 30 minutes. I tried to get a picture of her throwing a dart at the balloons, but before I could get my camera out she actually popped one. She was standing closer than you are supposed to, but I was still expecting it to take more than one throw for her to actually pop one.
After that was the parade. Well, actually there was a bike race that was going from Columbus to Athens and passed right along the parade route and Debbi convinced JoAnn they were part of the parade and she should cheer for them. She had her out on the porch forever cheering. It was pretty cute. The actual parade was actually almost rained out. It was so cute to watch JoAnn who had no concept of why they were throwing candy at her get all the adults around her running to gather candy for her in the rain. She managed to rack up quite a few tootsie rolls. Debbi also convinced Jo that the Miss so and so girls were princesses and JoAnn was quite thrilled she got to see so many princesses.
So, that is pretty much it about the Parade of Hills and I wish I had pictures that I could post from it, but I will have to wait until I get over to Ohio again since our computer had a virus and I lost all the pictures I had downloaded from my mom's camera. Now, here comes the rest a little faster now...
**Over Labor Day we went down to Birmingham and spent the weekend with Kristen and Joel, where among other things we went to a farmer's market, saw Samford where they both went to school, went to a huge flower garden and had a picnic at a park. It was a very busy weekend, but I'm so glad we went. I loved seeing their apartment and I had never been to Alabama before. This is Jo with Kristen and Joel at Samford.
**On September 11 we drove with Daniel's parents out to Illinois to Daniel's cousin's wedding. On the way we stopped to see his grandma (who is amazing for being 99).
**We watched the first Colts game of the season with Ryan, Heather and their kids...I just think this is a cute picture of the kids in their Colts gear.
**I can't remember when, but JoAnn, Isaiah, Daniel's mom, Marley, Heather, Eli and Ella all went to an apple orchard to pick some apples.
**I made homemade apple sauce out of the apples that we picked.
**Daniel got a bunch of people together this week to help pack some of the stuff that went on the container to the Philippines that we do every year and a couple of our friends came from Dayton to help. Tanya and I stayed at the house with the kids while the guys went to the food bank, so I don't have any pictures of that but her is one Tanya took of Izzie and Jo making cookies while we waited for the guys.
**Daniel and I went back a few days later on Thursday and actually put the food on the container. Alright, we pretty much just watched as someone else drove the forklift and did most of the work. It was still neat to see how everything went on and I have never been there to unload the container, so I hadn't ever seen exactly how much food that actually holds. Its an insane amount of food!
**I saved the best for last... Isaiah got his first tooth yesterday. He is growing up way too fast if you ask me.
I'm sure I'm missing some stuff but that is what I am going to leave it at for now.
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