Trick or Treat

Nic's and Katie's Pumpkins

The kids drew, I cut. They came out better than I thought they would...

New York Weekend

Besides meeting Wylie, we had other New York fun as well. We stayed at the Navy Lodge on Staten Island. 

Saturday was a relaxing day at Greg's & Kat's in Pleasantville (except for the Mr Coffee pot breaking and cutting Kat's thumb deeply.) That really blustery/rainy night we went to Sleepy Hollow, NY for a Legends Walk. We saw the Headless Horseman and other cool spooky things.

Sunday we took the Staten Island Ferry into the city, went to the American Girl Store, had Dim Sum with Ron & Leah, and saw the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island.

Wylie is too cute

We traveled to New York this weekend and met our 6-month-old nephew Wylie. He reminds me of Ron's baby pictures. And you can tell Nic is related to him--same big round head.

Providence and WaterFire

 Some steep streets
 The Shunned House
 A new friend
 Nic rocks out
 WaterFire
Last weekend we went with 3 friends up to Providence for the last night of WaterFire. We walked in the beautiful old neighborhoods and around the Rhode Island School of Design, and even stumbled across a house that inspired an HP Lovecraft story. We ate at a very good Irish Pub. Katie & Nic both had Shepherd's Pie (which is officially Katie's new favorite food.)

The WaterFire event itself was serenely beautiful.

Corn Maze

There's a cool Corn Maze at Escobar's Highland Farm, a couple miles from our house. We braved the maze Friday night. It was a good thing that we bought the 25 cent map, or we'd still be wandering...

We see the McGhees and some history

This past weekend Kevin, Ann, and Kelsey McGhee (along with family friend Kim Kalleberg) came up to visit Bryden McGhee, who's going to college at Gordon near Boston. The kids and I went up to see them (Karla was in Iowa for the weekend.) Some of Bryden's college friends met up with us, too.

We traipsed around the Lexington and Concord areas, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. Very interesting and very scenic--the Old North Bridge setting is especially beautiful. We also saw the homes of Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was a fun day with good friends.