Beacon Hillbillies

Happy Birthday Sam!

Yes, it's birthday week here at our house, and Sam is turning 7!! Can you believe it? We certainly can't. Sam is taking a big batch of cupcakes to school today, and Grammie and Grand are arriving today from Kentucky to help us celebrate this milestone. Cheers!

Happy Birthday Jen!

You are a wonderful mom, wife, and friend! We love you tons! XOXO! -- your boys

Thanksgiving 2007

Hi everyone!

How was your Thanksgiving? Yep, ours was good, too. Still feeling a wee bit bloated? Yeah, us, too. But, it was worth it, don't you think? We do :)

So let me give you the run-down from our long holiday weekend.

We kicked things off on Wednesday -- Thanksgiving Eve -- by hosting our good friends Emily and Amy over for dinner and a few intense games of Blokus. Photos from the evening are here. Basically, Dave entertained our friends while I cuddled their dogs, Georgia and Bohdi, that they brought along. To say that I have puppy fever would be a gross understatement. Speaking of dogs, I have to mention one of our new favorite TV shows, The Dog Whisperer. If you have the National Geographic Channel, you absolutely must check it out.

We celebrated Thanksgiving at our friends Mike and Kelly Grace's home. They were gracious enough to host us and other Seattle 'transplants.' There was lots of food, of course, and lots of wine, noisy kids, and good cheer.

Black Friday around here was actually sunny and clear. We loaded up in Sally and explored a new park on Mercer Island: Island Crest Park. Lots of energy burned :)

Dave worked hard Saturday and Sunday to hang our exterior Christmas lights and I worked on our photos and website. Tonight we will hang more Christmas decorations and probably do some birthday shopping!

How was your weekend? CLICK COMMENTS below and scroll to the bottom of that next page to "post us a comment" about your Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Sam

Sam wants to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! Wish we were there with you all. See you next month!

Who needs fossil fuels?

Why can't we just figure out a way to harness the energy of our children? :-)

One from the Archives

I'm showing off one of the great new features of our website... we can post photos straight to our TypePad blog from our Flickr account! I found this photo buried in our computer files last week, and I just had to add this one to the web. You really can tell how much fun the boys are having! --Dave

Something new

Yoo-hoo, over here! We're over here now!

As we try to update our Vox blog more frequently, we're finding that it won't allow us to do some things that we really want to do. We started looking around at other blog-hosting sites, and we think this one will work better for us. With this TypePad account, you can comment (*ahem*) without having to log in and/or set up an account, which was the case over at Vox.

Anyway, you'll notice that this site links directly to our Flickr photos. You can also still access our old blog (until we decide to trash it, anyway).

So come on in, make yourself comfortable, and enjoy! Oh yeah, let us hear from you, too, so comment already!