What's up at the Stauffers?

It's a rainy Saturday afternoon and the first chance I've had to start writing about our wonderful Thanksgiving week.  I will probably need to break it into several posts.
Last Thursday when I was writing, we were having a snow day.  It really WAS a snow day.  Our area got about a foot of snow!  The schools, even Penn State, were closed both Thursday and Friday.   It was so beautiful, and by Friday afternoon our roads...

I have an unexpected Thursday morning at home, so now I have time to update this blog.  Going right along with the rainy summer and fall that we have had here in PA, we are continuing with the frozen kind of precipitation.  We are having snow and are...

A whole week has gone by since I last posted.  That evening we had lots of knocks on our door as parents took their children around for trick or treat.  I think it's fun.  But the most fun of all was when these two came to my door!
This was Hunter's first year for trick or treating, so he had no idea that when they came to Grandma's house he was just going to get some candy and then go knock on other doors.  As soon as we opened the door he went running right back to the toy corner...

What a fun weekend we had!  As I said at the end of my last post, I picked up Sammy and Bianca on Friday after my lunch in Lebanon County with my Wisconsin friend.  That morning I had put frozen meatballs (which I had made the weekend before) into the...