Monday, November 26, 2007

Thanksgiving wishes and honey coated dreams

Here's hoping everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We took the 6 hour tour to Honey's house. The ride down was slower than anticipated with traffic and construction, but, at long last everyone was gathered together safe and sound.







We all settled in, enjoyed a delicious meal and spending time together. On Friday, Kurt and I had the chance to escape for a while. We went to Easton and had a fantastic lunch, with just the two of us. No kids. Just grown up talk. I didn't have to cut his food! It was amazing! We then wandered around and checked out some of the shops, especially a Sur La Table where we said hi to honey and spent over an hour picking out all kinds of things we'd love to have.....when a $3000.00 coffee maker doesn't seem too terribly absurd on a Christmas wish list!



After our return, we had the chance to hang out with Tim and Cokely and play pool, eat some great white chili (Thank you Em!) and let the kids run wild! Max really took to pool, especially with Cokely!



Saturday, it was Joe and Emilie's turn to escape while Kurt, Grandpa Kelly and myself spent some time with all the kids. Along with a rousing game of "football" outside, Max and Noah watched Spiderman 3 and Levi and Avery plotted their escape, with Avery in complete control. Still not sure where she gets THAT kind of behavior from! It truly must be from Kurt. Lucky for us we caught them before they grabbed the keys and headed off for a night of 2 year old style dabauchery! I imagine that would incude a lot of juice, crackers and enough crayons to go around!


Sadly, it was soon time to make the trip back to Michigan. But, we did manage that in record time (under 5 hours, with a half hour stop......23 really IS faster). We have lots of pictures to get developed from the old fashion camera we still insist on using, but there were definitely some cute shots taken, which will be shared as soon they are developed. However, based on that track record, it could be a special wedding present for one of the kids!

As much as we love Honey and Grandpa and visiting with Uncle Joe, Aunt Em, Noah and Levi, it did feel good to be home! Now, we're getting ready to move into full Christmas mode with wish lists and letters to Santa. The neighbors have already put up all kinds of obnoxious Christmas lights (but then, what can you expect from the kinds of neighbors we have...that have Christmas stuff up before Thanksgiving....damn lawyers, think they can do anything), so it really looks like another Thanksgiving has passed, and fortunately we have friends and family to spend the holiday with. That alone is something to be thankful for.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And next time you'll have a chance to check out the guest suites here! You were so nice to sleep on the couch!!!! downsizing is a bitch! not only do we miss the kids, we have a much smaller space!