Family Weekend

We had some wonderful family time together this Thanksgiving weekend that happened after a long week of heavy snow in WNY.  Katie and Todd with the three kids arrived on Tuesday afternoon. Becky had made some pasta and meat sauce which the kids loved. They stayed with us Tuesday night and then stayed downtown at the Hilton Garden Inn for the rest of the weekend a few floors below Dick and Iris' apartment. They left their dog Stella with us for the weekend.

Katie spent most of Wednesday making pies for Thanksgiving dinners. They would be attending two on Thursday. First at the dinner hosted by Dick and Iris downtown and then over at Dave and Donna's later in the day.

The weather had become warmer and the snow was melting fast. Todd took Henry and Clara over to Delaware Park to go sledding with his cousin and their kids. They all had a great time. We spent that time with Violet.

A little later in the afternoon Sean and Ashley arrived with Henry. They stayed at our house Wednesday night through Sunday morning. It was great having all of our grandchildren with us together again. We had not been all together since last July in Long Lake. 

On Thursday morning Katie came by with the kids to do some more cooking. The kids loved playing together. Todd was running the Turkey Trot with his father. Katie and the kids left in the early afternoon and around 4 pm we went over to Dave and Donna's house with Sean and Ashley for Thanksgiving dinner. We stayed there until about 

Katie and the kids came by on Friday and the four grandchildren had a great time playing with each other. On Friday Sean made us a wonderful taco dinner. Unfortunately Katie and the kids needed to leave before dinner because of other plans with Todd's family.

On Saturday Sean, Ashley and Andrew went down to Hamburg to spend some time with Ashley's grandmother. They got back to the house before everyone arrived to celebrate Clara's birthday. On Saturday night we said our goodbyes to Katie and the kids. They planned to leave for Philly early Sunday morning to try to beat a rain storm. They also took Stella with them at that time. Andrew went up to bed and then we hung out with Sean and Ashley for a while before we all went up to bed. They wanted to leave early Sunday morning too.

Later in the day we heard from everyone that they got home OK and they all did run into some rain on the trip. Becky and I were exhausted.