Robin's wife, Mindy, has just returned from a dive trip to New Guinea and Japan. Attached are some pictures she shared.
"I spent 8 days sightseeing in Japan on the way to diving in Papua New Guinea. Needless to say, I had a great time. Now I am back to the grind!"
Mindy Cooper-Smith, Tahoe
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Kelli was featured in the Daily Reflector "perfect picture" this week. This is a picture from her family's visit to Gatlinburg, TN.
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"Here are pics from Madison’s 12th B-day…." Beth
Happy Birthday Madison!!!
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Glenda and Myrtle enjoy a little joke!!
Ed goes back for more collards. 
The children decorated leaves to hang on the Thankful Tree and told of things for which they were thankful.
With a little help, the kids decorated the Christmas Tree. They did a great job.
Karen & Kelli visit with Ed.
Patricia, Bobby & Ed Jr. discussing which dessert was the best!
BJ, Connnie, Glenda, Jerry and Glenda's sister posing for the camera.
The young folks talking about their plans for the holidays.
Farrish's family from Farmville joined us for lunch.
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It snowed AGAIN this morning in Eastern North Carolina. Twice this week--in November! Very unusual. I predict that we will have a long, cold, snowy winter.
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Please keep Ed Jr's family in your thoughts and prayers this week. Camden is headed to Winston Salem for ear surgery on November 20.
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Farrish often communicates with Jessica's adoptive parents and they recently sent her a picture of Jessica at Halloween.
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Camden wanted to share her learning poster. She did everything except type the text, of course. She cut and glued everything. I just trimmed the edges a bit. She was wondering if you would mind putting it on the blog. This week was the letter, "F." She chose "forest" as her theme and "fly" as her vocabulary word. I know you can't read the "Fun Facts" section on flies, but it was very interesting. We had literally pages of facts, and Camden chose which ones she wanted to include on the poster. Among those she chose were:1. Flies vomit on their food before eating it to soften it. 2. Flies carry 2 million bacteria on their bodies. 3. Flies walk on the ceiling using glue-oozing foot pads.4. Flies carry diseases like typhoid, leprosy, and bubonic plague. 5. There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are people on the entire planet. Camden HATES flies and picked out the most disgusting facts she could find. She was quick to observe, however, that flies can find her sucker in her hand outside because they are 10 million times more sensitive to the taste of sugar than humans.
(Camden is the 6 year old daughter of Wendy and Ed Jr)
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John James, son of old friends (Jill Carney James & Chuck James) from Burroughs Wellcome who now live in the Raleigh area, was recently featured in a news article and I just wanted to share this. He is a voluteer kids baseball coach where everyone hits and participates, not just the athletically inclined kids. Congratulations John!
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This is MacKenzie Autumn Flesher, daughter of Laura & Mark Flesher of California, and also granddaughter of Susan & Ken Manning of Bethel. Susan is my niece, Laura, my great niece and MacKenzie, my great great niece. WOW. How old am I? MacKenzie was born on Kevin and Farrish's wedding day, August 9th. Ben, who was in the wedding is Laura's brother.
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"My youngest son Harrison was the ring bearer in a wedding for my niece Stacy earlier this month.I was unable to attend the wedding, but I was told he did a great job." Traci
Traci visited Greenville with her mom, Pat, for Dorothy's service during the weekend of the wedding.
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