What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had again this year. We headed to my parents house around noon for a relaxing afternoon. My mom makes the best turkey dinner and we all had plenty to eat and stuff ourselves with, even a whole apple pie for Todd. We threatened not to have one this year. Todd whinned enough that he got his way and my mom made him one. He was very happy. My neice and Todd have a compition every year on who can eat more. Now I know that all of you are thinking that Todd can win this hands down to a 14 year old girl, but he did lose this year. My neice consumed more food then he did. He did lose nicely though, I think he was too stuffed to argue. We then finished the night with our annual Thanksgiving game of Skat (which I won for the first time this year) We headed home around seven and all the children went to bed. I wanted to go to bed early (I had to be up at 3am to start the annual black Friday shopping spree with my neighbors) but I had to stay up and watch Gray's Anatomy first. I was so glad that I stayed up. For those of you who watch it I am sure that you understand.
During the night I looked around at all that we have and realized that we have so much to be thankful for. I am so blessed to have four beautiful children who are really fantastic, a wonderful husband that is so thoughtful and caring that I am sure that I don't tell him enough how much I appreciate him, a wonderful set of parents who I wouldn't be who I am today without them, a great extended family who we cannot always be with but are always thinking about, and great friends that are always there to listen and help out. I realized that we are so lucky to have a house over our heads, food on our table, and the love of family and friends. I have to say that I feel that there is so much to be thankful for and that I may not always express to everyone what they mean to us, but that we appreciate each and every one of you and are greatful to have you in our lives. I hope that you all have had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
What A Weekend
For my birthday this year Todd gave me tickets to go and see Wicked the Musical in Boston. Saturday was the evening of the performance. We had a babysitter and my parents were taking Tyler and Eric to soccer, we were all set for a great night out in the city. Well needless to say 40mph winds and pouring rain can put a little damper on the evening. Instead of going into the city to walk around, we settled to have dinner around here (no not McDonalds remember there were no kids) and then drive in to the show. The drive in was pretty slow and after we saw an SUV laying on its hood in the opposite lane we went very slow. However, after we got into the theater and dried off the play was fabulous. We had such a great time and I would recommend it to anyone.
Then Sunday morning came....no it was a great day. The weather was beautiful and we had an extra hour sleep because of the time change. We decided to carve a pumpkin since we did not do one on Halloween. Alex really enjoyed getting his hands dirty and then my niece, Brianna, did a great job carving out the face. Eric had a birthday party to go to. This was the first one that he was invited to without Tyler from someone in his class. Needless to say when we got the invitation it was a little hard for Tyler to handle the fact that Eric was doing something that he wasn't, until he came home two days later with an invitation to a party by himself. Amazing how things always work themselves out. As we were getting ready to leave for the party Alex wanted to show me how he was practicing riding his bike with no training wheels. He ends up riding right down the driveway and across the lawn. By golly he's got it. He is so excited he can ride a two wheeler. Well Tyler sees this and decides that he is going to practice as well. This is the child that did not want to try riding his bike all summer. He gets on and loses his balance. He gets back on and rides across the lawn. Now we have two little boys so excited because they can ride two wheelers. I have not been able to keep them off ever since. Alex even ventured off for a bike ride around the neighborhood with our neighbor and the other kids. He did a great job. We have a video of him riding that I have included at the bottom of the blog.
Then to end the great day we had my parents over to celebrate my dad's birthday and watch the Patriots game. I even had a Red Sox cupcake cake for him. No Todd did not disown me. It was an exciting game to watch, especially the last ten minutes. I have to say it was a perfect ending to the weekend.....well it would have been better if the Patriots could have won by 51/2 to cover the spread so Todd could have won his football pool this week again. It was a great weekend!!!!
Then Sunday morning came....no it was a great day. The weather was beautiful and we had an extra hour sleep because of the time change. We decided to carve a pumpkin since we did not do one on Halloween. Alex really enjoyed getting his hands dirty and then my niece, Brianna, did a great job carving out the face. Eric had a birthday party to go to. This was the first one that he was invited to without Tyler from someone in his class. Needless to say when we got the invitation it was a little hard for Tyler to handle the fact that Eric was doing something that he wasn't, until he came home two days later with an invitation to a party by himself. Amazing how things always work themselves out. As we were getting ready to leave for the party Alex wanted to show me how he was practicing riding his bike with no training wheels. He ends up riding right down the driveway and across the lawn. By golly he's got it. He is so excited he can ride a two wheeler. Well Tyler sees this and decides that he is going to practice as well. This is the child that did not want to try riding his bike all summer. He gets on and loses his balance. He gets back on and rides across the lawn. Now we have two little boys so excited because they can ride two wheelers. I have not been able to keep them off ever since. Alex even ventured off for a bike ride around the neighborhood with our neighbor and the other kids. He did a great job. We have a video of him riding that I have included at the bottom of the blog.
Then to end the great day we had my parents over to celebrate my dad's birthday and watch the Patriots game. I even had a Red Sox cupcake cake for him. No Todd did not disown me. It was an exciting game to watch, especially the last ten minutes. I have to say it was a perfect ending to the weekend.....well it would have been better if the Patriots could have won by 51/2 to cover the spread so Todd could have won his football pool this week again. It was a great weekend!!!!
Todd's Time Off
Well Todd was home last week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. His goal while he was off was to get all the leaves cleaned up in the yard. Not that you can tell now, because so many more have fallen down, he did a great job. All of the kids enjoyed helping him each day and loved to jump and play in the piles that he made all around the house. We had to keep reminding them to keep the leaves in the piles as you can see they enjoyed throwing them at Todd and I whenever they had the chance. It was so nice to have him home for a few days. I think Alex really enjoyed playing games with him every morning.
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