I can't let last weekend fade away into history without documenting it. We (Brad, Valerie, Laura, Emily, Maddie, Daniel, Ryan, Adam, Marie, Spencer, and Emma) all descended on the Coxes for "Chocolate Day". Can you believe our chutzpah?!!! They have a beautiful home in rural northern Pennsylvania, and I can pretty much say that their home was made just for Chocolate Day. The kitchen is large; big enough to hold an massive granite island at which four people can work with room to spare. We left VA on Saturday, 1 November, at about noon. We arrived at their home at about 4:30, and started to work. Maddie and Brad made a gazillion hershey kiss mice, while Laura and I whipped up truffle centers, almond joys, and orange/raspberry jellies. Adam, Marie and family arrived later in the evening. Sunday we went to church with them, then came home to a Thanksgiving dinner. They spoil us!! After that came some fun Halloween pix out in the yard, then a bonfire and s'mores (did you know you can make s'mores with chocolate-covered graham crackers? It was yummy!). Once the fire started dying down, we came in and played with the wii fit for a while. Laura blew us out of the water with her bowling skills.
Monday was back to chocolates....for some of us. Brad, Darwin, and whoever else was so inclined headed outdoors to play and play and play: in the leaves (they made a leaf maze, and piled up leaves to jump in), they went for walks with
all the kids piled in the wagon, they jumped on the trampoline. No wonder that when Emily left in the afternoon, and arrived back in NYC, Daniel threw a fit. "NO
HOME! NO HOME!! Baby! Grandpa! Baby! Grandpa!!" (
Daniel and Ryan love baby Emma)