Hangin with Aunt Cindy & Uncle Quent

Morgan and TJ came up to visit over Christmas break.  We spent two fun-filled days before Joe and Joy came up for New Years Eve.  The kids did art projects, played with the dolls, the fisher price people that Uncle Quent played with over 30 years ago.  We always enjoy having the kids up to play but always have a great time sending them home.

Uncle Quent took the kids over to work one day and the kids had a great time feeding the fish and each took turns on the fish scale. 

TJ had a long hard day at work!

Christmas Part 3

Today we celebrated Christmas with my family.  We decided to celebrate on Monday because it made better sense with everyone's schedules. We had our traditional brunch and the kids got even more presents.  It was crazy but a good time.  After having such a great relaxing day yesterday we had a crazy busy day today.

Quent and I stopped at several stores on the way home looking for a good buy on Christmas clearance.  We didn't find much which was ok.  We hope everyone had a great holiday season!

Christmas

Quent and I enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home.  We slept in, ate a great breakfast, opened presents and spent the rest of the day just relaxing.  I cooked a turkey and all the sides for dinner and I will admit it was really fun to just spend the day without having to be anywhere.  We enjoy spending time with out families but it was really fun just relaxing without all the holiday stress. 

Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas Eve with Quent's mom and sister.  While they all went to Mass I stayed home and cooked prime rib. We all had a great time opening presents and enjoyed each others company, it was a great night even if I did have a potato explode in the oven.

Dickens Festival

We had the opportunity to go to the Dickens Festival this past weekend.  Morgan and Alyssa were dancing at the festival and I've always had a great time looking around the festival at all the random items being sold. 

We were able to finish up our Christmas shopping at the festival and enjoy the season.  We hit up Red Iguana after the festival for dinner.  Oh how I love some good mexican food. 

Jon Schmidt Concert

Quent and I were able to attend the Jon Schmidt Christmas Concert with my parents and my brothers.  We hit up Ruth's Diner for dinner prior to the concert and enjoyed a night of Christmas music.

Jon Schmidt and Steven Shape Nelson were really fun to watch.  If you have some time I suggest you look up their piano guys channel on YouTube, they are very entertaining.

It was fun to do something cultural, we haven't done something like that for a long long time.  Below is a video from YouTube of the Piano Guys ... they performed this at the concert.  AMAZING!

A trip to the Blue Bird

I have wanted to go to the Blue Bird since moving to Mantua.  The Blue Bird is a throw-back restaurant in Logan complete with soda fountains and homemade candy.  Friday night we had my faculty Christmas party and it happened to be at the Blue Bird. 

We had a great time (and the food was great) at the party, it's always fun to see the coworkers away from school.  We had a fun white-elephant exchange which at one point I had an amazing Gene Simmons doll.  Unfortunately for me, I didn't get to keep it for very long.

It was a pretty quiet weekend for us, next weekend is action packed with more holiday fun.  It's a good thing the holiday's only come once a year!

Quent's Birthday Part 3...

It's been a busy weekend.  Ashley, Rick, Joe, Joy, TJ and Morgan drove up for dinner Friday night, we had a great dinner at Maddox and had dessert at our house.  Rick and Ash slept over and Rick helped Quent with a few projects around the house/hatchery.

Saturday afternoon was the big gingerbread house party (see previous post). Today, Joyce and Kerry drove up for dinner and to celebrate Quent's birthday.  We had a great weekend but boy was it busy, we are looking forward to a fairly quiet week.

Annual Gingerbread House Party

My family celebrated my mom's birthday, Quent's birthday and Melissa's birthday at the annual gingerbread house party.  Everyone got into action this year building their gingerbread houses.  We had a great time with the family and are already planning what we're going to do next year.