Thanksgiving has come and gone. We are all walking around with a pound or two (or five, whatever) extra about our persons; but we are none the worse for wear. I found myself especially reticent last week since Thanksgiving was, traditionally, a holiday devoted to my father and his visit to New England, as well as the enjoyment of good food. While my dad couldn't join us this year (and won't in future), I think he would be pleased to know that we ate good food. A lot of it, actually (see previous note about extra poundage). We also watched the new Star Trek movie, which I am absolutely certain my dad would have loved (it was quite good, and I say that as a non-Trekkie, not that there is anything wrong with trekkies, perse).
We also kicked off SP 2.0's birthday week (the countdown to '1' began on Thanksgiving this year).
Don't worry, there will be more birthday coverage later, I promise! There is a lot of birthday goodness that will need reporting! Get excited!
This year, we had two Thanksgiving meals, one on Thursday...which, you know, was Thanksgiving. And then we celebrated again on Friday. There was a goodly amount of fabulous food (if I do say so myself, and yes, I do). For those interested in such things, you can find the menu for the dinner tables here (or at least what was intended, I had to change the soup (no fennel) and I opted to make cupcakes instead of the meringue cake that only I would eat).We had two meals because we had a special visit from some Adventuring Seals and we wanted to celebrate accordingly.
It was fun. And the cousins had a ridiculous good time with each other.
Even the youngest ones!
Watching all the Pups play with each other reminded us all about how we wish we could get them together more often. I think it was a good trip/visit (one of these kids got really sick after this tire swing ride, and it wasn't one of the ones from the west coast).
The trip was a short one, however. Papa had to load up the van to get the Adventurerers back home a few short days after they arrived.
Since they were flying out of Boston, there was a little stop in Boston Common to see some ducks before the long flight home.
Thanks for visiting!And for those interested in such things...there are tons more pictures in flickr (hello, grandmas.)
3 comments:
If they were flying out of Boston, shouldn't there have been a stop at Webs as well? Just sayin'...
SP 2.0 is looking so big! He couldn't hold his head up when I saw him.
We miss you terribly! Thanks for the great food and superb company!
This Texas grammmommy thanks you! It would be so fun if all the pups could meet in the middle sometime! We have a pretty fun Seals habitat going here...we are up to 3 swings in the oak tree, but there is always room for expansion. So glad you had a good visit.
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