Fun with Friends

This weekend, the fun started on Thursday night. (Technically Wednesday night for Halloween...) Our friends were in town from Virginia. We decided that no restaurant could handle 10 adults and 12 kids under 5 so we went to our friends' house for pizza instead. So much better! The big kids had fun eating at their own table and playing with all the toys. The little kids liked sitting in a circle and crawling around. And the adults were able to have fragmented conversations.

On Friday, we went up to dinner at Ramona's Table... it had been quite a while since we had been there. We took the boys to swim lessons on Saturday morning. While Alex napped, Phil took Will downtown to walk on the skywalk. Saturday night, Miss Celia came over to watch the boys while Phil and I went out to an amazing dinner with friends. Our friends Mike and Cara had won a dinner for 8 at a silent auction. It was at home of one of the partners in Mike's law firm. He cooked us an incredible meal including roasted tomato and goat cheese appetizers, shrimp, filet w/ chimichurri sauce, butternut squash soup and a pumpkin jelly roll with cream cheese filling for dessert. The herbs and vegetables all came from their garden.  The food was fantastic and it was nice to have a grown-up evening with friends. On Sunday, we went out to Blandford Nature Center to go for a nature walk and then had an all afternoon fire.
 

Helping the neighbors with some yard work

The Big Kids