Organized Chaos...Smith Style: Good Times, Great Friends

Boomer came to me on Tuesday before Thanksgiving at 9:30 AT NIGHT, and said, "Hey, let's go to Louisiana for Thanksgiving." This is what happens when he drives in a car to long by himself..he gets thinking ;o) I of course gave him "THE LOOK" with the following words ,"SERIOUSLY, have you looked at the unpacked, unorganized house. Louisiana is 1100 miles...ONE WAY." I just got from driving with the kids from Utah for 12 hours, I was sooooooo not wanting to do that so soon. Boomer of course realized, I was right and we went to bed.
   The following morning around 9:30, he called his friend Robbie to tell him we weren't coming for obvious reasons. I went upstairs to start unpacking, when I hear Boomer say on the phone, "OKAY, let me go talk to her"....They were plotting (just kidding, Robbie). Boomer came up and looked at me with his EYES, and said it would be fun, what do you think. SERIOUSLY. I finally told him make the decision, so we can pack and get on the road or get cleaning. The good salesman in him, had a very convincing argument...so we went. We drove till 2:30 in the morning and then finished the last 3 hours Thanksgiving day.
   Putting aside the crazy drive with kids. It was the best Thanksgiving. It was so fun to spend time with Robbie and his darling daughter Remi. We met and ate with his Dad and Mom, they are such incredible people. So, sweet and made us feel right at home. They live on 2 acres, so the kids were able to run and have fun. Morgan and Rylee both had fun driving the golf cart. Morgan learned to drive a Rhino type thing, she only crashed it once. Boomer and Robbie smacked balls in to the field next door, making up different ways to hit the ball....Happy Gilmore style was the funniest. Or who can hit the ball the closest to that mark. Typically boy games. After they took off with the kids to find all the golf balls.
   Robbie's Dad loves to decorate for Christmas so, he had a bunch of those blow up Christmas decor...with light and Christmas music playing. At night when they all blew up and the lights came on the kids LOVED walking around the yard looking at the all. Such a fun evening.
   The day, was very relaxing and ate some great Southern cooking. It was incredible.
We went back to Robbie's that evening and just hung out while the kids played. The next day, Morgan and I went to Baton Rouge and went shopping. It was a great day spending time with her. We had a fun time and found great deals.
   That evening we went to The Pro Bass Shop, OH MY GOODNESS, that store is amazing. The kids loved it. So, much to see. They had live fish, a raccoon and snakes. Pretty amazing. We got pictures with Santa. My kids DO NOT Santa...but, I can tell you with Grandma Clause sitting right by him, he doesn't seem so scary, the kids loved him, she is the ticket. The picture turned out great.
The drive home was about the same craziness, but we made it and had a great time. Thank you, Robbie and Dad and Mom Vallot, it was amazing.
   Things we loved on the drive. The coolest thing we saw was the all the cotton fields, they were a ton. They had just picked the cotton so there were bails and bails of cotton, most the drive. It was fun to see all the cotton on the streets. And on the was back we went through Ft. Sumner which is famous for the Billy The Kid. We saw where he was buried, but didn't have time to go see the grave. It was an amazing town, with some old saloon's and buildings. Great memories.

Here are pictures of the kids playing. On the property Robbie's parents live on, there is an old bunker. That was really cool to see.

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Golfing and trying to find all the golf balls.

Robbie has a dog, that he is still training so, she was in the kennel. I would find Luke many times sitting out the kennel playing with her. It was so cute.