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For your Christmas pleasure....

SNOW!!

It snowed!! We woke up this morning to a very fine dusting of snow! Very unusual for these parts. It lasted for most of the day, and then it was gone....There's a chance for more tonight, but I doubt it will be much. Anything more than this and town shuts down, we just aren't equipped to deal with the white stuff....

Where's the snow??

One of the really nice perks of having Nana & Papa back home in the states is beautiful forest that surrounds their house is perfect for Christmas tree cutting....well, that and the fact that they let us visit often is nice too!! This year's adventure led us to a new spot where there were many to choose from. It took awhile to pick the best one, but I suppose that's half the fun. The only thing missing this year was the snow. Maybe next year!

New Pictures

We just got these back from Meagan's 2 year photo shoot. Enjoy!

Catching up....

Wow, its been more than a month...I'll spare you the "where has the time gone..." Here's a quick recap:

Thanksgiving was at our house this year. 17 of us this year, including the kids. We have newcomers- Uncle Gary, Auntie Carolyn and Ben have all relocated from Templeton, so it was nice to have them with us this year. Tom, Papa and Uncle Mike worked on the new porch cover for the garage all morning. I'll post pics when I get them back from my mom. We had lots of yummy new recipes and food this year, and I think we must have had enough for the Chinese army, as the saying here goes. Afterwards, we walked on the Sundial Bridge before Round 2 of the feasting commenced- Pies!

Soccer season has come to an end. Tony had lots of fun. While he enjoyed chasing the ball and running up and down the field with all the other kids, I'm thinking all those lessons of learning to share and not taking things from others has really sunk in with him (and several others, we noticed) When someone else had the ball, he couldn't quite bring himself to take it away.... One of the kids actually yelled back to their parent who was, um shall we say encouraging their child to 'steal the ball', "But Dad, you told me not to take other kid's toys!!" I guess they really do pay attention to what we are saying...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEAGAN!!Meagan is 2, such the big girl now!!

I'd love to post more pictures of her party, but due to camera error (or is it operator error??) most of the pics didn't turn out. Oh well. Lots of family and friends to help celebrate, open gifts, and eat cake!! Its good to be 2!!

Happy Halloween! We had a Wall-E and a Tigger this year. Tigger was a bit camera shy, so no pictures but here is one of Wall-E and his class right before the big parade, which was rained out this year so we wandered in circles thru the cafeteria instead of the track. We trick-or-treated in the rain with friends, had pizza and hot chocolate, and ate lots of candy!