Kennisons' Meeting Place

This is such a great picture. Kevin, I am posting it in case people don't have the time to look through all of your pictures.

I am devoted bargin hunter, so I have looking at Black Friday Ad previews on the net for two weeks. Among other things of interest, I saw this 10' plastic kayak offered for $200.00. My first foray on Friday, however, was a different mission. I saw a good Toshiba notebook for $300.00 at Frys Electronics. They were to open at 5:00 AM and knew that people would be waiting outside for several hours, but I mentioned to Greg that I might try to get him one. His computer died (fried) in the recent lightning strike. I got up at about 5:30 and drove up to Frys at about 6:00 AM. I knew it was a zoo when I had to wait to get off the service road and into the parking lot. I entered their property and fortunately found the very first parking spot just vacated. I used this spot to turn around and escape the mayhem. As I drove around the store on the back roads I was amazed to see the cars parked parked in adjacent office park lots and people already wheeling the big screens TVs out to these remo...

On the last five Thanksgiving mornings, we have gone into South Dallas to catch the Transit Train into downtown for the big YMCA Turkey Trot. It seems that Sam and Miles said, "Not this year", so the girls came up with our own "Twin Trot". Kathy and Cait drove down to Jess' house and I rode my bike so Grant and I could do the race on wheels. When the "race" came to Kristin's she had pumpkin oatmeal panckakes for everyone. Eveyone gathered at our house in the evening for our annual Pickles and Pies. Kathy and Cait laid out about 50 dishes of finger foods. As always the large variety of olives and cheese is a favorite. Cait even did fried pickles! After the Cowboys game we started to watch WALL-E. Grant and I wanted to finish, but all of the others were ready for bed. We'll have to circulate the DVD through the neighborhood. Happy Thanksgiving.

Megan and Jason have recently begun to announce the anticipated birth of their new baby. The baby is due on May 27. Megan will have a c-section so she is thinking that she will deliver a few days before that date. She is feeling well, a bit tired. Megan, Landon, and Jason are going to Disney World for Thanksgiving. Megan is disappointed that it won't be pool weather but I think they are going to have a wonderful time! We'll all be looking forward to that update! We will be eating dinner on Thanksgiving Day in Hopewell Township with Bill's family. Hope that all of you enjoy a wonderful holiday.

Kathy's middle daughter Kristin delivered beautiful twin boys this past Sunday evening. Her water broke at home at about 9:45 in the evening. She called her Doc and then her mom. Kathy ran out the door in one minute and she and Todd had Kristin to the hospital in what seemed to be only 15 minutes. The babies were 6 weeks short of full term. Miles was 5-3 and Sam was 4-9. They will spend a few days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Center to gain a bit of weight and practice the sucking. Congratulations to Kris and Todd. We can't wait to see them home. I added a small set of photos to Kevin's Photos on the sidebar here.

Kristin called this evening and my oven timer went off while we were on the phone. I described this dish and she asked for the recipe. My neighbor Bill came over to the driveway to visit a bit last week. When he left he explained he was going to cook his favorite dish from his summertime home in Rome. It sounded so good I tried it that evening (and twice again). It's so simple it hardly deserves this explanation, but here goes. QUARTER 1 1/2 LBS. NEW POTATOS SPREAD THEM ON A NO STICK PAN WITH SLICED RED BELL PEPPER AND RED ONION COAT LIGHTLY WITH OLIVE OIL SALT AND PEPPER GENEROUSLY COVER WITH FOIL AND BAKE FOR 90 MINUTES AT 350 REMOVE THE FOIL AND BAKE FOR ANOTHER 15 TO 20 MINUTES OR BROIL FOR 5 TO 7 MINUTES TO CRISP THE POTATOS

Jessica and Kristin organized a pre-Trick or Treat party at our house last night. The girls brought chili, cornbread, and cookies. Kristin brought apples as well along with sticks, melted caramel and a bunch of treats to roll the carmel apples in. The Goodyear children were all such cute dinosaurs and Jess and Jack were the perfect palentologist couple. Todd hand painted the skeletons on their tee shirts. How about the new twins?!! They are due any day now. Laney was a reluctant goldfish to begin but she soon got into it. Kathy was a bit hit in her grape costume. Stephanie and Donny came over with Will / Batman after Will had a big evening at St. John's Fall Festival. He had a big haul on the candy and was prepared to make it disappear in one night. You can see a few more shots in "Kevin's Picture" at the link on the left side of the blog. Happy Halloween!