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With another holiday weekend in the record books, it is time to reflect on the last four days. The first thing that I am thankful for is the fact that I had four days to spend with family and friends.

We got an early start on Thursday.  For the second year our family served at the Coastal Rescue Mission.  The volunteers that help support this organization are great. After months of planning their hard work was repaid with smiles as more than 250 meals were served.

Thanksgiving was completed with a late lunch with my family and a relaxing afternoon. It is always nice to get outside with the kids and walk around the old farm. The kids love to hear stories about the trouble my siblings and I managed to get into growing up.

Friday was a lazy day. We did not battle the lines for the not so deep discounts.  I don’t think we left the house all day.   Actually the kids did, they enjoyed an outing with the grandparents and Madagascar 2. We ended the evening sitting around a small fire on the back deck. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Saturday was a Family Reunion for the McDaniels side of our family. Great food and fellowship. The mood couldn’t be dampened by the wet weather. The kids had a blast as kids usually do and to top it all off,  The Clemson Tigers declared victory over the Gamecocks. The only downer to this event was that our car ended up in a ditch on the way out. I was covered in mud from head to to in 50 degree rain for about 30 minutes, but it was all good.

On Sunday we enjoyed lunch with the Rabon side of Tabitha’s family. After riding the tractor, checking on the cows and a few games of checkers we were ready to head home.  We were missing some one though,  Jessie and Tyler had been gone for a while. The golf cart was also missing.  We did manage to find them at the pond. The golf cart was stuck with about to inches of mud covering it from top to bottom. They boys didn’t look much better.  They were hosed off in the front yard with the golf cart and we were finally heading home.

With three Thanksgiving Dinners and a Family Reunion this weekend, I don’t expect the scales to be very kind in the morning. I passed on a really good opportunity to ride on Friday and only managed to run twice during the break.  It’s back to work in the morning as the Christmas countdown begins.

Go Tigers !

I wish we had started this.  Maybe next time.

Don’t try this at home. Try it at a friends house

He has been putting in some long hours as he prepares for mid term exams.  His hard work will pay off though.

I know it is hard to believe, but we do allow the kids to venture outside for things other than spelling B’s. This is another example of our families interacting with others. There aren’t as many pictures of the kids as I would have liked. They were enjoying their freedom gathering leaf samples for a school project and quizzing each other on physics facts. You know how kids are. They had a blast.

This year I managed to log over 650 miles and around 60 hours on the bike.  As the days grow shorter and the temp drops outside the chances to ride are few and far between.  I hope to start 2009 with the Myrtle Beach Marathon Ride.  Tabitha has agreed to ride this one with me if I will run the 5k with her on Friday.  We have a few months to get a bike for her and get ready.  It looks like rides will be limited to the weekends until then. We will continue to run and I may try to grab an indoor trainer later this year.  I want to ride at least 1500 miles next year and run 300 miles.  That seems like a reasonable goal (My boss would be proud).