Mitch's 8th Birthday

Saturday we also celebrated Mitch's 8th birthday - dragon theme.  Lot's of cute little people running around with swords and shields - pretty funny.  Food was great - meatballs and ravioli and lots of side salads.  After dinner Mitch opened presents, smashed a dragon pinata and ate a really delicious cake.  It was fun as always visiting with the family.

Dragon Party - Look out!

Uncle Kevin, being a good sport playing the part

Aunt Jeanette and Ellie

 Opening presents - the envy of all the guys

Dragon slaying time

Bringing in the heavy hitting princess to finish the job

Time to sing

Jeanette's Birthday

Jeanette's birthday this year began with a nice little snow storm which made the entire area look really pretty - unfortunately it did not lead to any delays so Jeanette still had to work.  In the evening we met up with a whole crew of friends - Colin, Joe, Will and Vanji, Bob and Mary, Bob and Mary, Timm and Rachel, Wendy and John and Chris - at Ali Babas.  Jeanette loves this restaurant and it serves delicious Middle Eastern cuisine.  We had Morrocon eggplant salad and carrot salad as appetizers and a delicious chicken kabob for main course.  We finished up with baklava with a birthday sparkler.  The staff at Ali Babas really did a great job taking care of our big group.

The Group

The birthday girl with baklava

Jeanette and I 

Afterwards we went over to the new Mojos (old East End Cafe) to see a couple of local bands, headlined by Diego Paulo.  These guys are really excellent, and while the rest of the ticket was not so good, they reallt finished up strong and put on a great show.

Diego Paulo 

On Sunday the family came down - Tom, Marion, Brig, Kev, Mitch, Ellie, Joe and Robbie.  We had a great time with a spaghetti dinner, some hide and seek and kick the can in the snow and of course cake and presents.  It was nice having everyone down to our home.

Dinner

The cake 

Presents 

Busy Weekend

It was a busy weekend with fall like weather.  On Friday night we went to the Delaware Saengerbund for the local Octoberfest celebration with Joe, Viola, Timm, Rachel, John, Wendy and Colin.  It is a really great time with authentic German food and beer.  We went with the bratwurst, potato salad and slaw, and trialed all the German beers.  Delicious.  We finished the night working off some calories on the dance floor.

Saturday I headed to Atlantic City with for Ed's bachelor party with Pete, John, Jeff, Timm, MJ and Will. 

That same day Jeanette was quite bust with helping Colin and Joe on the morning with harvesting honey from Colin's bee hives.  They captured almost 5 gallons of honey from those busy bees. 

In the evening she went up to Quakertown to celebrate Ellie's 4th birthday - she's growing up so quick.  It was a princess theme, and boy did she look cute (I'm sorry I had to miss the party).

Birthday Weekend

My bday weekend was great. Jeanette organized a real nice dinner with many of my friends up at in Kennet Square. On Saturday John talked us into going to the fair hill races. They were really fun, though we did not win it big.

On Sunday we went with John and Bill up to float the upper Lehigh.