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The Life & Times of SPL · 2005-2013

Thanksgiving with The Korbs

Family photo

We had a great time in Florida and South Georgia for Thanksgiving. SPL hit it off immediately with all of the Korbs (who he hadn’t seen since December 2005).   It was fun to watch him make a connection with each person (John and I were amazed as he really focused on each person who was new to him :-).  SPL loved all the stories of Aunt Susan and Uncle Andy’s Christmas tree ornaments as well as the soldiers from Aunt Susan’s dad’s collection.  SPL and Drew played with many action figures from Drew’s childhood (vintage 1990s — and Drew had a good time reminiscing and finding old stashes of toys around the house  :-).

We went to St. Simon’s Island on Tuesday to seeGigi and Jack for lunch.  During lunch, SPL had fun playing “mystery picture” with Uncle Alan(who always comes prepared for fun).  I even made it into a photothanks to Al :-).  And here’s a cute one of Drew and his mom(aka Aunt Susan).  After lunch, we went back to Gigi’s house and hung out for a bit.  We saw some pictures from days gone by: Nan and her two brothers, Andy and Alan; John and David when they were little; cousins Blake, Harrison, and Chandler who are now 21, 18, and 17 respectively. After leaving Gigi’s we also stopped by Bampa’s office and took a photo with the famous Korb Engineering sign

We had fun @ Uncle Alan and Aunt Mary Kay’s house too: playing tennis with Mary Kay’s grand-daughter, L, who is 11; playing with Charlee the dog, learning how to cast a net (and having fun trying out the new rapid fire feature of our new Canon 7D), and catching his first fish(which was very small so we had to throw it back).  SPL even got some tennis tips from Aunt Mary Kay!

And Drew (John’s cousin who is in an improv group called Mission IMPROVable that tours all over the US) took us to the beach to look for sharks’ teeth— fun!  SPL had fun combing the beach for shells as well as teeth and build a sand castlewith Uncle Andy, Alan, and Bampa.  He and Alan also had fun chasing each otheraround and falling in the sand. And hey — I got another few photos taken of me and SPL too :-).  And one of me and Bampa andme and Drew too.

We also had a fun breakfast with Bampa and Myra.  SPL colored with Bampa and shared some laughs.  Snapped some cute ones of SPL and his dad too.

Many thanks to Andy and Susan for sharing their house with us and to Drew for sharing his room.

Here are the other photos. There are 140 so if you want to see the others, please email me as they are under “friends and family” protection on Flickr.