The Hutchings Family Blog: A Girls Trip South!

I am blessed to get to work part-time at one of our local hospitals in the Emergency Department...but one of the only down sides (as anyone working in healthcare knows) is that we don't close for holidays. This year I am working Thanksgiving which means we won't be able to spend it in OK as we had planned. Daddy was SUCH a good sport, and "let" us girls take a trip down South while he stayed home and worked and studied. I drove through the night with the girls, and they really did awesome. I much prefer that to driving during the day as Lainie really is not loving long car rides (when she is awake). She is such a mover and shaker, that sitting still while she is awake is just not much fun...which translates to not much fun for anyone else either! Gigi, Papaw and Aunt Ally spoiled us rotten. We did all kinds of fun stuff...Mommy even got to go to a costume party sans children with Ally. It was pretty funny...I was Cleopatra (Cleo for short) and Ally was Gretchen (the German bar maid). Ha! We had a great time.

Other favorites were the Pumpkin Farm (city-style!) with our "new" friends Grayson and his Mommy Danelle, playing with "Moose" (the GIANT and lovable golden retriever), eating LOTS of Gigi's famous cooking, hugs and more hugs from Lainie-bug, going to church where Lainie praised the Lord through dance and Faith through singing (Jesus Loves Me into the mic, that is :) ), feeding the chickens, and a girls slumber party! Woo! We got alot in for a 5 night stay! Here are some pics (which I know is what you are really waiting for :) )!