Weekend in Clemson

We just had a wonderful weekend with my best friends from college and their families! We have been getting together for the Clemson homecoming weekend for many years now, and it gets better and better as the years go by! We all look forward to this weekend all year long and the time spent together at the place where we all met is well worth it. We were all lucky to form a friendship with Meg's husband, Larry, when she met him at Duke after we graduated... he even wore a Clemson shirt for us (although the Duke shirt was right underneath)! We stayed at two cabins at Tugaloo state park right on the lake. We have stayed here for three years now and the kids all enjoy having space to run around outside. There are seven children between the three families and they have the best time playing together! Isn't it neat how children don't really feel that a whole year has gone by and play together as if they see each other every day? They have known each other since they were born, so they have a really special bond!

The game turned out great with a big win for the Tigers! It was a beautiful day, but it got very cold and windy by the end of the game. We went back to the cabin after the game and grilled steaks and roasted marshmellows... yum! What a great weekend!

A "Big" Weekend!!

This was Amelia's weekend to be in "Big, the musical" and she had so much fun! After some dress rehearsals last week everyone was prepared for the opening weekend. Amelia was in the largest number in the play (about 80 kids on the stage for this one), which was the toy store scene... she was a toy, a horse and rider to be exact. They all looked so cute! The kids always have the best time being in the play and hanging out in the dressing room. We all went to see the play on Sunday and really enjoyed it (I always loved the movie, too). Amelia will get to go to the cast party next weekend when the play is over... she always looks forward to that! Way to go Amelia!

Tennis Saturday

We had a really beautiful Saturday! Mitchell played in his first "round robin" tennis tournament and did really well! He played against six other boys in his age group and they would play five games with one opponent then rotate to another and play five.... and so on. Mitchell won 15 out of the 30 games that he played and we were very proud of him! We had great weather to sit and watch and enjoyed relaxing while we cheered him on. Check out the color of the leaves... it was breathtaking!

Halloween!

What a fun Halloween night it was for everyone! We started out the evening having some of our neighbors over at our house for a chili dinner (a family tradition of ours). After the kids patiently sat through dinner they finally were able to get dressed for trick-or-treating! Amelia went out with Claire and Mitchell was able to meet up with some of his friends in the neighborhood to walk around. After getting quite a collection of candy we all made our way back to our house for dessert and digging through the candy... Jake got very curious when Amelia and Claire went through their candy on the floor! After everyone was full of sweets Mitchell and his friends went to Kyle's house to sleep over (brave Mom!) and everyone elso went home for the night.

I don't think that Mitchell and his friends got very much sleep on Halloween night... he crashed on the sofa with Jake during the football games until dinner time... two sleepy boys!