Virginia trip part 1

I found my camera!  Can I get a whoop whoop?!!!!!  Christmas card post is below.  Sooo- we drove to Virginia to see my Dad's parents, Memaw and Pawpaw, two weekends ago.  It was a wonderful trip.  We take two days each way of traveling, because after four or so hours in the car Charlie is done and that's the way it is.  We stopped in Greenville, SC on the way up and got there on Friday afternoon.  We spent a fun day playing at their wonderful house.  Saturday we got up and headed to Bedford to see the National D-Day memorial.  Bedford is a tiny town that my grandmother grew up in, but they have the D-Day memorial because they lost the most boys per capita on D-Day than any county in the US.  Such a sad, sad time for that town.

The memorial is beautiful and we spent a long time there with the kids running and me doing the quote reading that fills my soul.  I bet they wonder if anyone reads this stuff- I read every single one.  :)





This is in the shape of the sword- the symbol of the mission- in the gazebo is a statue of General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces-



Above him is a replica of the maps they used in the field.  A toymaker in London used his factory to make "puzzle" maps of the operations- they would be sent and then assembled in secrecy-




Here's the story about that-




















Hey there you precious little love bug-





So grateful to have great-grandparents for these babies-



Pawpaw lost a brother in WWII and another brother was on Omaha beach on D-day and lived- Pawpaw was in the Korean war-





Marc wants Marc Jr. to memorize this-




Marc bought us all a BINGO game and it was a HIT!  Even little Tuck Tuck can basically play-











Playing with Memaw after baths-




All this adoration meant we got to take 8 more home- 2 for each child-


One great thing about Memaw and Pawpaw's house is their big, sloped back yard- the kids rolled down it a million times!






















Such a nice time with the family.  Part 2 in Tennesse coming up!