Sunday, November 27, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving Holiday Celebration at George and Julie's in Marietta, Pa. 

Our traditional "Family" photo.   Everyone is pretty used to this drill by now!
Front Row:  Madison, Zachary and Landon.
Middle Row:  Julie, Dave, Gavin, Barb adn Marcy
Back Row: George and Ryan

The Holiday dinner was started by Landon saying grace. He was thankful for his family.
He brought his placemat with the prayer so he could share with the family.

Treaure hunt for the Landon, Zachary and Maddie while little Gavin was taking a nap.

Ooooo!  All the treasures.........

Fun at the playground after Turkey dinner.
Julie, Ryan and Marcy watch as Maddie and Gavin take a slide.
The whole family climbing on the rock wall.

George, Gavin and I taking a break.

Football!!!!

My kids with their kids!!!

Yeaaaaa!  We'll all remember how excited Gavin was to "play" WII bowling.

We all had a wonderful time over the holiday.

 As a side note we had left after work on the 22nd and traveled to Albany, NewYork in order to miss the snow that was expected to arrive early morning on the 23rd. Ultimately the hotel had an infestation issue that we did not discover until we had left .  This led to alot of laundry and an exterminator for George. 
Our ill luck continued on the trip home with a dead battery and a two and a half hour wait for AAA.  We made it home safe and sound but just a bit later than expected.  Even though we had some trials duriing the trip we would not have missed the opportunity to spend the holiday with our family.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

November 15, 2011 GNO (Girls Night Out) Book Club

Denise Montgomery organized the Book Club meeting and Angelia McCoy hosted the event,  We enjoyed good food, good conversation and a glass or 2 of good wine.   The book selection is The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian. 

Front Row:  Rosie Harris, Me, Jocelyn Walker, Caitlin Shaw.  Back Row: Angelia McCoy, Morgan Pulitzer, Brenda Withey, Denise Montgomery, and Robin Terricciano.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

November 6, 2011 Visit to Kansas Part 2

Today we went to South Park and then on to Downtown Lawrence to explore the shops, We had lunch at Noodles and then visited another park with a locomotive. Our last stop of the day was the campus at the University of Kansas. Chad made homemade soup for dinner.









November 5, 2011 Trip to Kansas

We traveled to Kansas to visit Jenni, Chad and Lilli this weekend. since Dave travels so much we got free upgrades to First Class on the flight to Kansas City.  On Saturday we Visited the local Pet store, had lunch at Mcallisters Deli and then traveled to the Topeka Discovery Center.  We had the opportunity to watch dancers celebrating "Day of the Dead" festivities.  Chad took me for a ride in his new mustang before we all had dinner at Famous Dave's.






Grandpa and Lili painting on the glass walls at the Discovery Center.