Poconos is in upstate New York right?!

So I will not be winning a geography contest anytime soon and in case I told you otherwise, the Poconos are in Pennsylvania and they are gorgeous! We went with some 25 of our closest Harlem friends to a "chalet" in Blakeslee, PA this past weekend and had the greatest time! Cody took Friday off so we were the first to arrive. We got settled in, did some exploring...yes the first item of business was finding the nearest Wal-Mart, roamed around the big house and went for a walk. We saw tons of deer and wild turkey in the neighborhood and Morgan enjoyed the stairs and all the open space. It rained on and off the whole weekend but that didn't dampen our spirits in the least!

Nothing like a fish hook to the eye!

Yep, that's right we stuck Morgan as far into the closet as possible and we all slept pretty well.

Some dinner and quiet time before the rest of our roomies arrived on Friday night.

Morgan's new Halloween pj's say Hair-Wolf. We felt this was appropriate since our little man's hair is getting very curly and out of control. I love it and his big belly! He refused to let us take a picture without his sippy cup. I think he's catching on to the fact that he has an opinion.

Just hanging around on a lazy Poconos Saturday with friends. This cute little lady was the only girl with four other little boys...all under 2!
After Cody and Morgan's naps on Saturday, we decided to go for a drive and see what we could see. We found a pretty dead end road with a nice trail at the end of it. Turned out to be the Thomas Darling Nature Preserve and it was beautiful and we had it all to ourselves. Morgan however just wanted to play in the car; his absolute favorite thing in the world!
He got over it and he had a great time jumping in puddles.

Our good friend Ashley had everyone jumping in pictures during our trip so we decided to try it out as a family on our little walk. Morgan thought this was the funniest thing ever and started trying to jump with us. Even though he's too little to jump, he tried his hardest. He would squat down real low then pop up and do this little skip hop dance with the biggest grin. Man I love this little guy!

After our little walk we went back to the housing area where we were staying. They had a lake with a beach area and a small playground. It had finally stopped raining and it was a beautiful evening. We called some friends from the house to come join us and we had a great time playing around.

Beautiful Margy with Morgan who insisted on sitting next to her.Eliot was not happy and gave the cutest pouty face while laying in the sand. I just love these little guys!Minde supervising a little lake exploration.On Sunday morning we lazed about slowly getting ready to leave. The kids did a great job entertaining themselves with the help of various adults and many books. We hated to leave and can't wait to make this an annual event next year.

Here is a slide show of all the pictures we took this weekend. Many of our friends have fantastic cameras and took many other pictures for us. As soon as I get some I will add them to the mix. A great big hearty THANK YOU to the Gardners for concocting this weekend idea and for everyone else for making it a beautiful weekend!