Post Christmas Festivities

The Monday after Christmas the kids and I drove up to Wilmington to spend time with the Fennimores and to eat Peppermint Joe-Joe's and homemade Meyer Lemon ice cream. This was the day after the giant crazy snow storm.  I was nervous about driving, but it turns out the first snow we saw was when we hit Delaware and the roads were fine.  And there was just enough snow for a little bit of backyard sledding.  Perfect. 

 The kids took in a few movies.  I admire the way Saul has followed in the footsteps of the older kids and is enjoying some veg time too.  Hilarious. Jennette and I left the kids in front of the telley and dashed across the way to visit the model home of the DeLuxe housing development going in.  I am pleased to say that Jennette and I had a good laugh at many of the lovely features of the great and spacious home.  Good fun.

 They took us out for some amazingly delicious Mexican food and then it was off to Longwood garden, which was beautiful and festive.  This picture is in one of the treehouses.  I look forward to more trips to Longwood Gardens.  It was pretty amazing.

 Inside the ginormous conservatory was a ballroom with a ginormous pipe organ.  We sat down for some carol singing.  Clara loved it and told me she wanted to start going to this church instead.  I can't blame her, the organist was in a very kaleidescopish mood and the music was very cheery.

Thanks for having us!  It was great to hang out, and spend time with people we love!

Here is some footage of the sledding taken with the Flip that Whit and Jim gave us.  HD!  Max and Tucker had quite the time of it, trying to coordinate there ride down the hill.  It took many attempts and had me giggling:

And here are Lucy and Clara, who seemed to have an easier time than Max and Tucker: