Not only is our friend Jackson Rice an avid reader, he's an avid reader of the blog. Hi, Jackson! Jackson, his brother Henry, and his chauffeurs Kristi and Joe came down to Corvallis for 48 hours of Thanksgiving fun. Grandpa is also in town for the week, and brought his own airplane for airport. Richard cooked a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner which we shared with the Rice's, the Muhly's and my dad. My sister brought 3 amazing pies. My dad is on Ben's schedule when he comes out West, so he was able to catch the amazing sunrise yesterday morning. Kristi and I did some downtown shopping this morning while the boys and men went to Avery Park to burn off energy and turkey calories before they headed back to Washington. Next time we'll be seeing them is at Kristi and Joe's wedding, the day after Christmas.
We had our first tear free Halloween this year- Owen was actually excited to wear his tiger costume and go out trick-or-treating. We met Heather, Pete and Sylvie downtown on Friday night for round 1. Saturday night, after Richard and Todd returned from cheering the Beavers on to victory, we took the kids out around our neighborhood- hitting both our cul-de-sacs and a few houses in between. Laurel and Owen were very brave- running up to each door and ringing the bell. Richard carried baby tiger Ben around both evenings. Ben was so happy to be a tiger with Owen. Saturday evening we had surprise trick-or-treaters: the Delos-Reyes paid us a visit and the kids had a blast playing together on their sugar highs.
