finally. thanksgiving is over. and it’s socially acceptable to listen to christmas music. and put up decorations. i may or may not have already starting the former. the latter we attended to yesterday and today… rather than hit up any black friday (thursday?) sales, we rolled the mile-ish into downtown (ha!) lewisville to our favorite […]
isaac
birthdays and thanksgivings, etcetera.

and so here it is. another one of those catch all posts with a bunch of random pictures thrown together to bring this blog back to the present. you’re welcome. anytime. first, i’ll begin with this cute picture of anna. she is obsessed with cramming her hands into her pockets “just like charlie brown dos”. […]
the last wny post.
(this time).

welcome back for the final installment of sarah and isaac and anna take new york. here is an account of our last two days there. on friday, we loaded up the kids (including rob’s girlfriend’s son, evan) and headed to lovely rochester, for a trip to the strong museum of play. we took this obligatory […]
wny. again. part 3.

i’m baaa-aaaack. more tales of our adventures in western new york. i think i’m on wednesday. we spent the night at les’s. and my mom had a training thing in buffalo in the morning, so when she was finished we kidnapped her and made her go to vidler’s in east aurora for some old timey […]
another western ny trip series.
part 2.

on monday, my family returned to their respective jobs and schooling, leaving us to our own devices. so, naturally, our first stop was olivers candy. so. much. sugar. the kids saw this dog and instinctively stopped to pose for a photo with it. they’re well trained. or brainwashed. whatever. outside, we took some photos along […]
another western new york trip series. part 1.

a. we haven’t been to batavia since march. b. ike had a 3 day week sandwiched between a 4-day weekend and a 3-day weekend. c. ny autumn is 216% more awesome than nc autumn. so, we (me. kids.) went to ny. normally, i post a little while on the trip, so i don’t get overwhelmed […]
some halloweenish pics.

this year, for halloween, like last year, we gathered at a friend’s house and had some chili and snacks and maybe some drinks and then we headed out trick or treating with the kiddos. also, like last year, isaac wanted to be luigi. cool. saves me money. before we set out for candy looting, we […]
patterson farms IV

yesterday, we made our annual-ish trip to patterson farms for some fall time fun. and i took exactly one jillion pictures to document it. last year, the eating situation was disastrous. we waited in line for like an hour for some terrible hot dogs and hamburgers. so, we decided to eat on the way this […]
old salem harvest day

derek had to work all day yesterday, so i decided that the kids and i were going to do something fun and get out of the house. after exploring various options, we settled on staying local and heading to old salem for harvest day. we invited derek’s mom to hang with us and that she […]
miscellaneous happenings.

not much exciting to report around here. we’ve been watching a ridiculous amount of “it’s the great pumpkin, charlie brown” and have now moved onto “a charlie brown thanksgiving”. i’m hoping to get through halloween before we have to bust out “a charlie brown christmas”… (we did have one sneak peak already. :/) anyhooo… here’s […]