The Martin Family News & Notes

She is already wearing out one of her birthday presents:

See? The play opens tomorrow night.

Birthday presents included an iPad, a new Kameleon pop, and a hand blown glass art on a necklace chain. The kids made her cake. Can you tell:

You hook up the Atari 2600 to the 50 inch Sony. Nothing like 80s graphics on a modern LCD screen! Michaela is having fun playing Centipede too!

Posted from my iPad

We took the kids up to see the Shadrack’s Christmas display up at Smokies Park tonight. To see what one would see while driving through the display, watch this:

While there they have a small petting zoo, camel rides, and small amusement area. While everyone took turns feeding and petting the various animals there, one lama took a shine to Nicklas:

Inside the Smokies baseball park Hot Cocoa and treats were available for all as evidenced by Brenna who said thanks for sharing the funnel cake…now it’s time for a cookie!!!

But the ‘best for last’ is when Santa told Nicklas that he needed to do a better job in picking up that mess he called a bedroom:

Nicklas & Michaela went to Loudon High School to see the 2011 Battle of the Bridge.  Because of the rivalry that exists between the two Loudon County High Schools, this game is a well attended game – to say the least.  Loudon ended up winning the game…but no one is really sure how much of it Nicklas saw.  Because, as we seem to have forgotten from our high school years, going to the football game is not about the game.  It’s a social event….

Here is WBIR’s wrap of the game:

and the story on WBIR’s website:

http://www.wbir.com/news/article/181734/2/Battle-of-the-Bridge-brings-healthy-rivalry-to-schools

Michaela wanted Red Robin for dinner….this is what they delivered along with the birthday song the wait staff sang!