Focht Family Blog

This weekend has been a lot of fun. Saturday we went to dinner with two friends we haven’t seen in years. We went to one of our favorites, Maggianos. This is a picture of John and Jennifer Mason.

Sunday was my brother’s 41st birthday. We started Sunday morning with some fishing. I went to Walmart with Timmy to buy some new poles since his other one was broken and we couldn’t figure out how to fix it. Here are some pictures of Timmy and Josh fishing.

Sunday evening we went to a local restaurant that has beers from all over the world to celebrate Tim’s birthday. Here is a picture of Tim and one of Andrea with Meghan.

The kid’s meals were served in frisbees. Timmy decided to spin his in a corner while waiting for the adults to finish eating.

We pulled out Monday morning to go to Helen for a few days. However, we found that we had a screw in one of the truck’s tires so we first went to fix that. While waiting for that to be fixed, we got a phone call from Andrea. She tore the ligaments in her ankle and it appears there may be a hairline fracture. She is in a walking cast so we decided to stick around for the rest of the week to help out with the girls.

Kinsey Family Farm is the name of the Christmas Tree farm that my brother’s family goes to every year. In the fall, they have pumpkins of every shape, size, and color for sale. They also give hay rides out to a catfish pond where you can feed the fish. The other fun thing they offer is an apple cannon.

Today we went with my sister-in-law, her two girls and also my friend Celeste and her kids (they had off from school today). Both Andrea and Celeste also invited friends to join us. Here are some pictures of everyone on the hay ride.

Here is a picture of Nathan helping Josh feed the catfish. The catfish were huge and I tried to get a good picture of them as they came up for the food but they were quicker than my camera. :)

After we got back from the hay ride and fish feeding we went to the apple cannon. We had so much fun that I ended up getting more tickets for the cannon. Samantha managed to hit one of the smaller targets so hard that it spun around the pole. Nathan was teasing me as I went up for my last turn so I made sure I was concentrating on my aiming and managed to hit the same target as Samantha. The funniest part of the cannon is that past the targets is a field with cows and there was one cow that would wait by the gate for apples that came bouncing across so it could have a snack. :)

Here are pictures of each of the kids and Nathan aiming the cannon.

My next installment of campgrounds… Twin Lakes RV Park. This is where we stay when the Corp of Engineer parks are closed. They are open year round. Although we have had one of their full hookup sites we prefer the sites right on the lake that are only electric and water. Since the sites directly in front of the lake do not have full hookups we pulled in backwards so that our windshield is facing the lake so we have a better view. This is a picture of sites 81 and 82 in front of the lake.

Here is the view from the front of the RV…

Things I like: The view! This is a quiet park in a nice setting. Still close to my brother when Sawnee is closed.

Things I don’t like: I would obviously prefer that the sites on the lake had a sewer hookup. Also… this park does not have any bathroom, shower, or laundry facilities. The bathroom and showers don’t bother me but I would rather do laundry at the campground than having to find a laundromat.

Stars and Strikes is the name of the bowling alley in Cumming, GA where we had Timmy’s bowling party. We rented two lanes for an hour. One for the adults, one for the kids. My brother came with his wife and their two girls and one of my friends from Savannah that now lives here came with her two kids. We arrived a bit early because we weren’t sure how long it would take to get three kids and two pans of cupcakes into the truck. While we waited for the others to arrive I bought the kids tokens for games. Here is Joshua driving on some game and Timmy and Samantha playing air hockey.

After everyone arrived we settled into our lanes. We ordered some pizza and cokes for the kids and adults to enjoy in between turns. Here are the boys at one table… Timmy, Josh, and Tommy.

My mom and Celeste sat behind the action guarding the cupcakes and chatting…

Celeste is my friend from Savannah. Her kids are Tommy and Isabella. Isabella went to school with Samantha so that is how we know each other. The girls are always glad to see each other. Here is Isabella and Samantha playing with my brother’s youngest, Meghan.

After bowling we sat everyone down for cupcakes. These were the last of Timmy’s Halloween themed requests. They are supposed to be wizard hats.

The last picture I took of the party is Timmy trying to carry the present that Tommy and Isabella brought him. I think the box was a little too big for him to handle by himself. :)

Since we will be here for a week and Celeste’s kids have off school on Friday we have already made plans that we will go to the pumpkin patch on Friday.

It is hard to believe that Timmy is 6 already. I decided that even if mom and I were not 100% that Timmy would have what he wanted for his birthday this year since last year his birthday is when the engine exploded. So… the other day I picked up one of those little craft cookbooks that was a Halloween book. Timmy loved it and decided to build a meal around that. So we had a swamp brew punch that had bug ice in it. Nathan found gummy eyeballs at the store so when we made cups for the kids each cup had a floating eyeball in it. :)

Next on the menu was mummy dogs followed by a spiderweb cake that we added bugs to. Here is a picture of the mummy dogs and the cake.

We had the party at the meeting room at the campground and invited the campground owners and their kids as well as Nathan’s parents. Here is Timmy blowing out his candles and opening one of his gifts.

One of the gifts that Timmy has been asking for was a skateboard. Nathan and I gave consent so his parents bought Timmy a skateboard and all of the safety equipment to go with it. Here is Timmy trying out his new toy.

Mom had a set back on her recovery this week. She ended up back in the hospital again for a couple of days because her incision opened up because of a secondary infection. She is back home again and we are hoping to leave Statesboro September 28 and spend a week in Charleston so I can have my return appointment with my surgeon and also an appointment with an endocrinologist there that the surgeon recommended. They will decide at that point if I need supplements for my thyroid or if the left half is supplying enough hormones. Mom is having a home nurse come once a day to change bandages and I change the bandages in the evening. I have to wonder what the nurses think when they pull up to a truck camper. :)

We have a friend who lives in Charleston who dives at the aquarium twice a month so we will stay in Charleston long enough to take the kids to the aquarium while he is working. He said if we came while he was working that he would give us a behind the scenes tour. :) So… I am hoping in the next few weeks that we will be back on the road and the blog updates will start getting more exciting again. :)