This year we decided to have a non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of turkey we ate “personal chickens” (this is what Kate calls Cornish game hens). Our side dishes were stuffing, garlic mashed potatoes, crescent rolls, steamed broccoli, and cauliflower. Even though we didn’t have turkey, you cannot have Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie and homemade ice-cream. [...]
We celebrated Sarah’s 13th birthday and Halloween in the middle of a power outage! An early winter snow storm dumped over 10 inches of wet snow. The heavy snow blanketed the trees and weighed down the leaf-covered branches, causing all sorts of trouble. Every couple of hours during the storm, one of us would [...]
Stephanie is making me write this. She is also making me write that I have only one more year until I am over the hill. Yay. Now that the formalities are out of the way, we had some Halloween fun outside of making fun of my age. We only carved 8 pumpkins this year, they [...]
Every year since we moved to New York we have gone to see the Independence Day concert and fireworks at the Trophy Point Amphitheater at West Point. This year it happen to fall on the 4th of July. It has taken us two years to learn were you want to sit and we didn’t want [...]
“Everyone is thankful for me!” Thanksgiving dinner plate Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now that we’ve recovered, we’re blogging about it. It was a busy week for us. Grandma and Grandpa Hendricks came out to visit from Utah for the week. Since the kids were in school at the beginning of the week, we [...]
Halloween Kids 2008 Halloween, as usual, is always very busy. This year we decided to add some fun by decorating outside. We have been saving milk cartons for a couple of months to make 3 more skeletons to add to the 3 we made last year. To this we added lights, a ghost, a pumpkin, [...]
Our favorite Happy Fourth of July! Here’s a picture of the fireworks we saw over in Cornwall. The kids had a fun day – we drove over to Cornwall in the early afternoon to see what they had going on. There were some stalls set up selling cheesy stuff as well as carnival food (you [...]
