Monthly Archives: November 2008

Handmade Knit Hat

It was cool enough here yesterday that we had to bundle up a bit. Violet got to wear her hat made for her by our friend, Emily.

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Thanksgiving Recap

Mason is coming back to life. After several days of this: We have this back: We decorated the tree in the morning, made some sweet potato puree (and the pies the night before!), then went to the Nieto’s for Thanksgiving dinner. What a nice time we had, good conversation, good wine, good food, great TURKEY! [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends and family! It should be a good one this year. We’ll at a friend’s house helping them eat their 27 pound turkey. We’re bringing a couple pies, a side dish, and whatever else we have time to make today. We have tons for which we are thankful, mostly [...]

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Thanksgiving

We’re heading over to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving. Should be a good day. They have a daughter about Violet’s age.

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Snow

It snowed in Raleigh. Really. No lie. Colleen and the kids went outside and made a snowman. It was an eight inch tall snowman, but a snowman nonetheless. Preparations for our exciting Thanksgiving weekend are in full swing. We are spending the Holiday alone, just the four of us, but we intend to make the [...]

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Where’s your nose, Mason?

What a nice weekend. We played all day yesterday, then we went to Jumpin’ Beans today. What a fun little weekend. Beyonce was on Saturday Night Live last night… Here’s a picture of Violet dancing like her: We played a little bit in the yard, driving around in the “tractor”, it’s actually a battery-powered John [...]

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Yes We Can

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Halloween

We had a nice visit with Grandma and Grandpa over this Halloween week. We only talked politics a little bit. We went out to eat at a Mexican joint. They played during the days while I worked. Colleen made Mason a Fireman’s uniform and Violet wore her princess dress. We had a nice Halloween day. [...]

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