Weekend without kids

This weekend the kids are down at the lake with Gram and Poppy, and we're getting ready for our first "adult" party tomorrow night. Ali even asked me if we should have some decaf coffee ready. Coffee? Decaf coffee?? The party is for Ali's Sunrise work friends, a few of whom are leaving the company after long tenures. It'll be fun. We have a kareoke machine.

Anyway, the kids were so excited to go down to the lake this weekend. Here's Jake deciding which cars to bring with him:After we dropped them off we stopped at Wegmans on our way home. Think of the largest grocery store you've ever been too, then imagine that store as a tiny wastebasket in the corner of a Wegmans. It's probably too big. If we lived near one, and Ali sent me out for milk or sugar or something (which has never actually happened), I wouldn't be back for two hours. It's so big there's actually a restaurant in the middle of it. We sat down and had oysters and soup and hamburgers. It's amazing what you can do without toddlers. You can actually just stop and sit down for 15 minutes. Jake and Sadie are not big fans of sitting down for 15 minutes.

Good luck Gram and Poppy! Just remember, the short one needs diapers!

More pictures from Thanksgiving

Here's Sadie with a funny head-tilt on the 13th green:
And here are Jake and cousin Arjuna hamming it up:
Sadie carefully hanging ornaments on Gram and Poppy's tree:

Overheard while putting out the Christmas decorations tonight:

"Hey look at all these chimney socks!"

And as Jake unpacked a little manger scene:

"Daddy there's a cute little baby in here! She's so tiny!"

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy belated Thanksgiving everybody! We had a great weekend, starting out with a great Thanksgiving breakfast at Mimi and Grandpa's which held us over until the big feast down at the lake with Gram and Poppy and the gang.

More pictures to come, but here are the kids meeting Santa, who arrived by yacht. It looks like is Sadie is crying, but she's really just yelling "I love you sooooo much Santa!!!" Jake asked for a racecar, and a babydoll for his sister.