Showing posts with label Cleveland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cleveland. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2008

Thanksgiving in Cleveland - The Search for the Perfect Tree

At long last, here's the continuation of our trip to Cleveland. The day after Thanksgiving, we went to a tree farm in search of the perfect Christmas tree. This was the first time any of us had cut down a tree by ourselves. It was quite an experience!

Just as you would imagine, Santa was at the tree farm. Sarah wasn't so sure what to think of this Santa character!

Off to find the perfect tree!

There are SO many trees...how do we choose?

Garth finds a tree that looks tall enough, but it isn't the one.


So, we look at even more trees....

At long last, Amy finds THE ONE! Henry got the dubious task of cutting it down.

Garth drags the tree back to the barn to be tied up and taken home.


Garth and I getting ready to leave the tree farm. The snow was pretty, but it was cold! We were ready to go home!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Thanksgiving in Cleveland - the Sarah Show!

For Thanksgiving weekend, Garth and I went to Cleveland to spend the holiday with his sister, Amy. Garth's parents rode along with us for the long ride up north. It was great to finally see where Amy, Carl and Sarah live!
I took a ton of pictures while were there...admittedly, most of them were of our favorite niece, Sarah! Here are some of my favorites...
Miss Piggy - Sarah shows off her pigtails
"What do you mean this is YOUR phone?"
Sarah was also quite taken with my cell phone. She even dialed a couple of people - thank goodness she called my family members and not someone else!

Silly Sarah, tricks are for kids!


I don't know what Sarah is doing here, but doesn't she look all grown up?!


Sarah's Aunt Katharine (Carl's sister) came over for Thanksgiving dinner. It was great to see her again!

One of Sarah's favorite things to do was pull all of the CDs out of the entertainment center. She liked identifying the colors on the CDs. In particular, she was always searching for the blue one (notice the blue Disney CD), a green one (another Disney CD) and a pink one.
After pulling all the CDs out, she liked to stack them back up. The stack is almost taller than you, Sarah!

You've almost got it!

Sarah also LOVES for people to read books to her. She was always bringing books to anyone who was willing to read. Here she is with Aunt Katharine. Aren't her pigtails cute?

Uncle Garth reads to Sarah. I love how she's looking at Garth!

"Gee, Uncle Garth...I'm not so sure about this Cinderella"

I even got my turn reading Sleeping Beauty.


One night, we went to dinner at this great Stir Fry place called Stir Crazy. Unfortunately, Sarah made a bit of a mess on her clothes. So, we had to do a quick chang-a-roo at the restaurant. She was perfectly fine being topless at the restaurant. I snapped this quick pic before they got her cleaned up. I thought it was too cute!
I have more pictures from our trip...stay tuned for the continuation of our Cleveland adventure!