Cool, Cool Cleveland...

It's definitely chilly here in Cleveland. Fortunately, Stetson and I had a little reprieve from the cold when we went to Arizona for two weeks. Lafe had finals, so he was able to do heaps of studying while we were gone, but we missed him so much. Stetson and I had a blast hanging out with all the family and soaking up the sun.

Stetson loved playing with Mason!

Luke babysitting Stetson...

Hangin' with the Chaffee cousins in Grami's playroom.

We were only home for 48 hours before we headed to Lee and Vanessa's for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania!

We had a great time at Lee and Vanessa's. Thanksgiving dinner was fabulous. Vanessa brined a delicious 20-pound turkey, and her lemon meringue pie was picture-perfect (and tasted awesome, too). To keep the kids out of the kitchen, we headed to the creek behind their house. [Lafe took all the pictures at the creek]

We spent the rest of the week playing games, going to the outlet malls at midnight on Thanksgiving, and having an awesome breakfast buffet Saturday morning at Shady Maple Smorgasbord (more than 200 feet of all you can eat, home-cooked food for $8.99).


Stetson playing with Noah B. at Thanksgiving dinner.


Thanksgiving is yummy! (and so is this basketball...)

Little Edison was so perfectly behaved that we hardly knew he was there. Jaxon and Lily are such a good time and were wonderful with Stetson. Lily is all sass. Here are some of my favorite Lily-isms from the week...

Lacy: "Lily, do you like to wear cute clothes and shoes?"
Lily: "That's what I do."

Lily: (after every single toy commercial) "Jaxon, will you get that for my birthday?"
Jaxon: "Only if you share."

Lily: "Fine. If you don't watch this movie with me, then you don't get to watch the next one. We're not going to watch any movies then."


Jaxon is a little techno-phile. If he wasn't playing on the mac, then he was taking pictures on my LG Chocolate phone. It made for a pretty funny moment when I was browsing my phone's pictures on the drive home and realized Jaxon had snapped a picture of Lily going to the bathroom. Thanks, Jaxon! At least it was Lily and not Lee...

All in all, we had a wonderful time! But it's good to be home again. We're only here for two weeks while Lafe does sealants, then it's off to Arizona again for the holidays.