After school Friday, Derek and I made a spur of the moment decision to drive to St. Petersburg, Florida, to see my Dad’s side of the family. We made it there in 10 hours of drive time and spent the weekend and came back yesterday. (Hopefully, soon, I’ll get a biography entry ready for it.) […]
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Back to NC life
We are back. Truth is, we’ve been back. I was pretty sick this week (see blog entry: flu), and then we’ve been pretty busy trying to get back in order. NY was a lot of fun. Poor Jake was sick a lot of the time (and likely the reason I was sick). He started puking […]
Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving 4-day weekend is almost over. We had Thanksgiving dinner at Derek’s uncle’s house, with all of his family. It was fun. Lots of food. Lots. On Friday, we tried to shop with the rest of the crazy people, to get good deals. We did alright. But, we tired quickly. We went to dinner […]
Jake’s Birthday Weekend
We went to NY this past weekend for Jake’s sixth birthday. We got him Finding Nemo. We had a party with Pokemon cupcakes. We went to see Elf and it was great!! Anyhow, the weekend was awesome. I’ve posted some pictures here.
Batavia, NY
Derek and I are heading to the homeland today. Wednesday was Jake’s 6th birthday and we are going to have a party tomorrow, complete with Pokemon cupcakes. We are also going to take him to see Elf. More for us, than for him… It might snow!!
Trivial Pursuit Champs
We cooked a roast last night and had Derek’s parents over for dinner. Then we had cherry cobbler (out of the box) for dessert. Then, we busted out the new Trivial Pursuit (1982-2002) and kicked their butts. Ok, really it went more like, we got all our pies and couldn’t land on the center for […]
Fall Decorating
Derek already beat me to it, but here’s our weekend attempt at fall decor: CLICK ME! Other than that we didn’t do much. We went out for dinner at the Piedmont Club with Derek’s parents. I had the prime rib. :o)