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Our apartment is starting to look rather normal again, and we're still hanging up Christmas cards. It's time to blog about our two-week jaunt in the northeast.

Please forgive the bullets--it just seemed the easiest way to include everything. Also, the links included below will take you to pictures, but the pictures are NOT from this trip. They're just to remind you/let you know what everyone looks like.

Here we go!

• We left Frakes the morning of Saturday, December 22, and we drove to Baltimore to spend the night with Christie and Tim. We had a delicious dinner with them and Brian--it was great to see my sister for the first time since she got married!
• Sunday, we drove back to NEPA and experienced some very horrendous fog, which made Eric's eyes want to fall out of his head.
• We stopped at the Reid parents' home for the afternoon, and then we headed up to the Kazinskis' in Binghamton to hang out with a few of our YAR friends.
• Monday was Christmas Eve. We had lunch with Abby and braved the mall...yeah, we're crazies. We joined Doug and Linda for a delicious dinner at Doug's place and went to the Christmas Eve service in Cortland.
• Christmas Day we battled treacherous roads (more on that in another blog) to get to the Yetter Christmas breakfast and to enjoy some time with family and received a cow (!!!) as a Christmas present from Dad Yetter.
• We travelled then back to NEPA, where we spent the rest of Christmas and the next couple of days. We saw family (both Reids and Nanstiels, ahem) and friends (Sky Lakers and Liz and Matthew) and relaxed, all of which was wonderful. Oh yeah--and Eric and Tim cooked deer legs.
• Friday we travelled back to Lisle for dinner and visiting at Mom Yetter's.
• Saturday we picked up Doug and headed to Oxford to spend time with friends at the Martins' house.
• Sunday we went to the New Milford UMC and got to see some of our youth group....we miss them a lot!
• Monday was New Year's Eve. Eric spent time with Ike and Tim, working at the Stoughton Farm, and Sarah hung out with Kristen and Ben. Then we headed to the Shelps' for a rowdy New Year's Eve party, complete with about 13 separate countdowns to the New Year.
• New Year's Day was Stoughton Christmas at the Smiths'. We had good food and good company, as usual! We spent the evening hanging out with Kevin and Ryan, who were our gracious hosts for several days.
• Wednesday Eric went with his dad to work, and Sarah....well, she went shopping. Then Grandma Yetter cooked us an amazing dinner so that we'd get another chance to hang out with the Yetter Clan.
• Thursday we stopped in at Achieve to visit Eric's co-workers and other friends he made there--we had fun saying hi to everyone! Then we headed south, stopping in Lenox so that Eric could meet with the General Conference delegation and then heading to Mom and Dad Reid's.
• Friday was Scranton day. We headed to the Albright and the Children's Libraries, having the obligatory lunch at Pappas. It was great to see everyone there...it almost made me want to come back to SPL...
• Saturday we took a few moments to breathe and do laundry and pack, and Sunday we drove back.

It was a whirlwind tour, but it was wonderful. Thank you to everyone who housed us and fed us. We missed seeing a few people, but we were so grateful to see the ones we did. It was so wonderful to spend time with y'all! We love you!