thanksgiving in ny

More pics from our last days in NY for the holiday.
With the exception of a surprise potty accident the whole week was peaceful, fun and just about the best holiday trip we could have had- even traffic cooperated!

Still... thinking that Christmas is going to be in Rockville for us this year.
Everyone is invited- Who's coming?!!





Ryan was awesome with the kids and spent so much time crafting and being silly with them. We were really happy to see Chris and Shawn entertaining Madeline as well- she was thrilled to have all that attention and is in withdrawel now- especially for someone to cut and paste with her!

Thanksgiving!!

What a perfect Thanksgiving.
Family, Friends, Food, Fun. Almost everybody all together at once.

It has been a simple few days back home in NY. Lots of laughter, all sorts of delicious comfort food, crisp autumn air. its Thanksgiving.

Hanging out, enjoying the new entertainment quarters: Club Fidotta South.
Madeline thoroughly enjoyed 'rockin out' with air guitar.


A hearty thanks to the chef of the day who earned his few minutes of down time- and used it to challenge Shawn to this rigorous, cut-throat match of table tennis.

Notice Bennett cheering them on in the background...

I am so thankful today.

And remembering a week of fun with uncle deedge -the precursor to this week's Thanksgiving celebration. Hoping you are over the flu soon and coming to visit again so we can go chop down our xmas tree!
We started last week with an early celebration with uncle Deedge.


(not uncle dennis' turkey- this one is mine... its a bit overdone looking but in fact was really good!)

ryan fidotta

My cousin Ryan was eager to secure his place on the blog and asked me to record him eating a chip.

Nana and Papa

 

Here’s a pic from the halloween party that our moms club held.  all the families who had one, brought a pop tent and the adults got inside. kidds went tent to tent to trick or treat. and Nana and Papa were great sports!  Here is Nana driving her trick or treat fire truck!

Madeline at the air and space museum with nana and papa.

flying high!

‘playing’ in the leaves.

thanks for the wacky hat- so autumnal, Nicole ;)

bennett was thrilled.

a quick screen shot from our carport movie theatre on halloween!

 

we miss you guys. and hope everyone has recovered from the trip! xoxo

More Halloween pics

We had a wonderful support team here for the past 2 weeks. Nana and Papa came from San Mateo while Don was away for business.

They were able to stay here with madeline while don and i took bennett to phoenix for 2 days for a friend’s wedding and in the interim, they managed to get our landscaping in order and complete at least half of the ‘honey-do’ list!

We had a fantastic time at the air and space museum and showing them around our town and all of our local haunts.

Thank you so much Nana and Papa! We would not have survived 2 weeks w/o don by ourselves!

Halloween would not have been the same without you guys either. and of course, im only now realizing that there is a huge scarcity of photos of you guys from the trip- why dont you come back?!

There they are waiting for trick or treat time! Madeline in her aptly named Madeline costume (pronounced with a long ‘I’ sound) and Bennett as a dalmation.

Here’s Madeline in her pseudo costume on Halloween Day. when she decided she wanted to dress up as Daddy for halloween. note the goat!

 

and Madeline and Eliana who was dressed momentarily in one of the fairy costumes from the dress-up bin.  I really think that the holiday would have been meaningless for madeline had she not been able to spend it with her friends, the wongs!  thanks for joining us :)

 

Eliana actually went as an angel with her brother Benji decked out in a devil frock and mom and dad Jonah and Rachael had Super mom and Super dad capes for their costumes.All of which Rachael made herself!!

And to top it all off.. we had pumpkin pot pies for dinner!

Halloween pic from nana!

 

Madeline!

preview. more to come...

lost camera

looking for camera
looking for the halloween pics
this is gonna suck if they are gone for good
trip to phoenix=big mistake.