It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Well this year we are not holding to our tradition of getting the Christmas tree on Friday after Thanksgiving. We couldn't go because Casey had to work that day. She is working at a jewelry store in New Hope and had to work both Friday and Saturday. So the plan is now to get our tree tomorrow (Sunday). We did however get out the decorations and I decorated the dining room, the family room mantel, and the front hall.

I love this hall table decor. The tree decorations are all my Mom's. She loved decorating her tree in all Christmas plaid. She gave me these decorations and every year, the hall table is decorated in all plaid. I have her bears that are dressed in plaid clothing and all of the decorations are plaid. This tree makes me smile every time I walk past it. As you can see, Kitty loves it too (she's sitting on the landing in the background).

Richie Havens Concert

Last night we went to see Richie Havens at the Sellersville Theatre. What an awesome night it was. That was my first ever Richie Havens concert and I was blown away. The opening act was pretty good and the guy played a 21 string guitar. Once Richie took the stage, the crowd went wild. I had no idea what to expect as I had only seen pictures of him and listened to one or two songs of his. He was incredible. I had a number of favorites and will be downloading some of them to my ipod in the next few days (after checking what Casey and Greg have on theirs).

Afterwards, because it is a very small venue, Richie would be signing autographs after the show. Larry had brought 2 record albums for him to sign so we got in line. We only had to wait about 20 minutes before the 4 of us got to meet Richie. He was a wonderful person. He took time to speak with all of us, told us a story about the album cover for Stonehenge and how they had to sneak up to it in tall grass to take the picture, and shook all of our hands a number of times. We thanked him and before we left he gave Greg a big hug. It was a night I will never forget and I have the ticket that Richie signed "To Joan, friends forever, Richie Havens". It was actually pretty funny because Larry had the albums signed (one for Greg and one for Casey), then Richie looked at me and asked if I had anything. I said no and he said "how about your ticket". I fished it out of my pocket and he signed it. Casey had him sign her ticket for Larry.

High School Junior

He's Growing Up So Fast

He's 16, 6' tall, and looking at colleges and careers. Where did my little boy go?
Last Sunday was his last baseball game. He started playing at 5 years old and has now aged out of Flemington baseball. He will probably play for fun in college, but since he plays tennis in the spring, he never plays on the school team. His team this past year was coached by Mark again and what an awesome coach. The team lost their first game by 10 runs and didn't lose another game all season. All but 2 of their wins were by 10 runs or more. Talk about a great team.

At the end of the last game Greg was given the game ball and lots of praises by his coach. His coach also asked Greg to be his assistant coach next year. What a way to finish his baseball career.



It was a lot of fun going to his fall baseball games and I was happy that Casey was able to attend a few of them. She was very happy to pose for a few pictures.