Christmas Day

Christmas started with checking out the stockings that were hung by the chimney with care. Then onto the presents under the tree. TJ liked to be in the middle of everything. Santa brought TJ a chew stick which he enjoyed. I made barbequed ribs on the grill for an early dinner.

Christmas with the Wendts

We had a nice gathering with the Wendts in Delaware after Christmas.

Family Photos Dec. 2011

Here's a few photos of the family.
Ben and I













Pop and Joey - same sweaters!


















All the North Carolina Wendts including TJ.

Merry Christmas! 2011

Good Morning to All. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas weekend. We went out to dinner last night on our annual trip to the Japanese restaurant for Christmas Eve. I know it was actually Christmas Eve Eve but I am working on Christmas Eve so we had to do it a day early. The weather here is very warm for winter. I am still cutting lettuce from my garden and I am planning on using the grill for our Christmas dinner. Is this what happens in global warming? Here is a photo of our new Christmas tree. Merry, Merry, Ho, Ho!

Ski trip Dec. 2011 day 2

The boys decided to try snowboarding today. More lessons for them but they seemed to get the hang of it for the most part. I tried to get my courage up to go down the hill that I went down yesterday but I couldn't do it. Dave was able to ski, also. He took lessons yesterday and then waited with me as I fell my way down the hill.

Ski Trip Dec. 2011 day 1

Merry Christmas! Our gift this year is a trip to Snowshoe Mountain, West VA to try skiing and snowboarding. After a ski lesson, we hit the slopes. Joey and Ben did well for first timers and were able to make it down the hill and onto the ski lift and back down again. Meanwhile, I fell down the slope over and over. No injuries just sore muscles.
We are staying at a condo in Silvercreek which is a one bedroom with a loft. It has 2 bathrooms, a bedroom down and the loft is a bedroom. It is small but big enough for our needs. We just have so much stuff with our ski jackets, pants, boots, skis, poles, etc. It has well equipped kitchen so we have been eating in.
There is snow on the mountain though the temps are not too cold. They had snow the day before we got here and also made snow for the slopes.

Pumpkins 2011

Here are our pumpkins for this year. Ben carved an angry bird (on the left). This is from the video game, Angry Birds. Dave carved an owl on his. Joey and Chloe had Darth Vader on theirs (no photo)

Ben's Birthday 2

The day after his birthday, Ben had a few friends come over to go to the movies. We went to see Real Steel, a movie about a father and son and robot boxing. We had the theater to ourselves which was great for 6 noisy boys. Ben requested a dino cake which turned out vey cute. It is a stegosaurus with candy corns for spikes and teeth.
The boys had fun with the sphere!
Happy 14th Birthday, Ben!

Ben's Birthday 1

We celebrated Ben's birthday by going out to dinner to Carraba's. We had cheesecake back at the house. Ben received a Hoberman Sphere for his birthday. This is a collapsible sphere that is very fun to play with. You can see Joey enjoyed it.

Happy Halloween 2011

Benjamin and I made a dino costume for him to wear for Halloween. He wore his costume to school but did not go trick or treating. Halloween was cold and rainy not a nice evening for walking around the neighborhood. Here is the Halloween dog sporting his candy corn bandana.

Corn Maze Fun

There are several corn mazes near us, so we decided to check it out. We received a flag in case we got lost and couldn't find our way out. Not sure how much help that would be as the corn was taller than the flag. The weather turned cold and you can see we have our winter jackets on, plus there was acold mist - what happened to all the nice fall weather?










Here's Ben and I, Mr. and Mrs. Scarecrow.

We had a paper that we had to punch when we found each marker. #4 was elusive but we finally found it.





















Lost in the corn!