Thanksgiving

As is tradition, Eric and I headed down to Richmond to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family. This year we were missing a few family members, so it was smaller than normal, but the food was wonderful and I guess you can say the company was good too :-) Of course with less people, that means more wings for me! My Uncle Doug makes the best wings. As you can see there is no shortage of food. We ate and ate and after we rolled ourselves off the couch, we played a traditional game of Apples to Apples.

On Friday, we got to have breakfast with my college roommate Tiffany and her husband Josh. As always, we had a great time and wish they would move up to Maryland so we could see them more. We spent two hours, eating of course, talking and laughing so hard I cried at least 4 times. After breakfast we said our goodbyes and headed back to Mom and Dad's for some mistletoe hunting. In case you don't know, mistletoe grows in trees. We like to shoot it down so we can hang it up in our homes, and it's just fun.

We then went back to Doug and Cheryl's house to eat Thanksgiving dinner again; it's just a good the second day. After dinner we headed to the bowling ale for our traditional, and very competitive night, of bowling. The girls like to mix things up during the last game and come up with creative ways to bowl. We even got Eric and Trent to do some this year.





































You always get crazy colors with bowling shoes, but for some reason Eric was the only one with neon this year. Maybe that's what happened to his game. For the first time I actually beat him once!

















The guys: (left to right) Derreck, Matt, Trent and Eric. The girls: (left to right) Laura Dean, Brandie, Angela, Catherine.













The uncles and an Aunt: Dirk, Page, Doug, Dave and Dad.

Friends Dinner Night

We had some of our friends over for a big dinner tonight....spaghetti and meatballs. The kids had a great time chasing Sam around the house while the adults chatted over the kids laughing and screaming. After things settled down we ended the night, or should I say started the night, with a little Rock Band. As you can see the boys got a pretty into it. I think it's safe to say we need to keep our day jobs.

The Cruzan's

Part of the Bull Family

Kristin and Tom

The Grabs

Lawrence-Koza Wedding

Tonight we went to a childhood friend of Eric's and what a great day. The temperature was 73, in mid-October! I missed the outdoor ceremony because of a volleyball game, but as you can see from the picture the setting was beautiful. Brad and Eric grew up playing in the streets of Eastview together. It was funny listening to Eric talk with Brad's brothers about how they use to give Brad the football during the games just so they could tackle him. Cheryl made a gorgeous bride. They are a great couple and I know have many years of happiness ahead of them.

On a side note, the high school team I coach won the Regional Championships tonight!!!!

Happy Halloween

Eric and I headed down to a local pumpkin patch to search for the perfect pumpkins. We ate apple cider donuts, drank some warm hot chocolate and walked the patch. To our surprise, we found pumpkins fairly quickly. For the previous 3 years we have spent about an hour looking through all the pumpkins to find the perfectly round pumpkin with a nice stem on top for Eric. We couldn't believe that in 10 minutes we were back on the hayride heading away from the pumpkin patch. As you can see, we had to make sure Sam got a pumpkin too, even though he didn't get to go with us.

Halloween night was fun. We sat out on the front porch, and watched as the trick or treaters headed around the neighborhood. As you can see Sam, was dressed as a bee!

The following day we went with some friends to the corn maze. They had a Obama and McCain maze with Vote 2008. The husbands decided it would be good to run around and scare us by all the sudden darting off, and then later reappearing around a corner. We also visited with the pigs, chickens, goats and bees at the barn, raced down the slides and jumped on a giant pillow like thing filled with air. It was great to let loose and act like kids again. The best part was it was the last night the farm was open so we had the place pretty much to ourselves.