birthday party at the cabin

we had such a great time seeing family and friends this past weekend! we drove down and back to knoxville on thursday and monday, respectively. my mom met us at the cabin thursday nite, as did lindsay's family. we had a good evening together and then lindsay's mom and brother cory came back on friday afternoon to help get some stuff and get things together for the party on saturday. mom's "friend" charlie and some of our knoxville friends came up friday evening and we had fun playing games and hitting the hot tub until late. saturday morning we got the house put together for the party and i fired up the grill as people started to trickle in. we had burgers and dogs and lots of other good food as we watched jake tear into his new toys. everyone kind of sat around and nodded off in the late afternoon as kids played and then we geared back up with some dinner time leftovers. most of the people stayed most of the day and we were pooped when all was said and done. we fell asleep sitting on the couch during snl and then crashed in bed until we got up with the roosters to go to l's home church. though were in the knoxville area, it still took us almost an hour to get there so we had to get a move on. we went to applebee's afterwards and even though we had called to make sure there wouldn't be much of a wait, we still had to wait an hour for our table for 11. later that evening, we finally arrived back at the cabin - just our meager family of three - and tried to gather our stuff and partially pack the car. afterwards, we watched the oscars, but being wiped out, lindsay fell asleep during chris rock's monologue. i watched the whole thing and finished up some hw. we got up the next morning, had breakfast with l's mom and bro, and we hit the road. interestingly, it was snowing when we left town and when we drove back into town so the last hour of the drive was pretty slow, but we got home, unloaded the car and tried to recuperate before we started the week.