Thanksgiving

I know it is a week late but we had a fantastic holiday! Jimmy, Elizabeth and the kids came out and now I can happily say I have a memory with each member of my family in my own home and that is what I am most thankful for this year. While the week with them was more relaxing than entertaining, I am so happy that they all got a glimpse into our life here in Connecticut.

Some highlights from the visit are….they hit up NYC for a few days and realized there is never enough time to do it all, Ted deep fried his first turkey which by all accounts was delicious, we ended up at McDonalds after a failed attempt at lunch at “not so friendly Friendly’s”, showed them Yale, hit up Pepe’s famous pizza in New Haven and discovered some yummy canolis down the street, had an unsuccessful trip to the carousel but happily stumbled upon a cool Christmas light display which saved the day, checked out the Clark W. Griswold house down the street from ours, took the kids on tractor rides (as they are convinced our acre corner lot means that we live on a farm), set up our yard inflatable which also inspired John to promptly head to Lowes to buy two when they got home, watched Ted break his remote control truck about 25 times, I had a full circle moment when I took Caroline to get her ears pierced for her 12th birthday (which is today HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLINE), lots of bonding with Cali who has been more depressed than me since they left, I am pretty sure Abby (our very moody cat) bit or scratched each one of them at some point and the only real bummer was that though they all wished for snow they missed it by about 12 hours. Kassidy and Elle loved having their cousins to play with!

It was a very nice visit and I am beyond happy they finally made it east. I will miss them as always and though it will never be soon enough, I can not wait to see them all again.