Thanksgiving, Take 2

Thanksgiving came and went. We had a very low-key dinner at Grandma Paulette & Grandpa Doug's house with Grandma Gates and Aunt MarySue. After dinner we played Scattergories and Lincoln was in charge of the timer and letter ball.Last evening we had a second Thanksgiving Dinner with our good friends, Josh & Maria Tollefson. They drove in from Johnstown, PA, for the weekend and we had a great evening, especially after the kids went to bed!

Jenn is off at work this morning and Lincoln, Lydia and I are playing with things around the kitchen while I finish straightening up from lots of cooking and food prep.It's also been wall-to-wall Christmas music. While we'll never be as Christmas-Crazed as our friends Zach & Kristen (this is two mentions in one week!), we're doing our best to build anticipation with Lincoln. Wait until he sees his Advent calendar next week!

Pounding the Cold Stone

I don't think we've spent an October Saturday walking around in shorts and short-sleeve shirts and eating ice cream outside. But that's what we did last weekend. Lincoln enjoyed Cotton Candy ice cream (it was neon blue) with chocolate chips from Cold Stone Creamery.
Good friends of ours who now live in Johnstown, PA, visited a couple of weekends ago. Their son is a couple of months younger than Lydia. He's a riot, and here's some of his fun at our place for a couple of hours.
Here's what Lincoln does when he wakes up in the morning before everyone else.