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Well, we don’t typically do anything all that big on New Years Eve, but the church was invited over to a church families’ house so we decided to go. First, we’d have to drive home from Portland.  Jess had a Dr. appt. down there this morning and then it started snowing.  We decided to take… Continue reading »

We saw this when we were in Portland early this month.  We knew we were going to be back in the area again around Christmas, so was hoping it would still be set up for Nathan to try it.  I almost went.. but I just ate.

Or is that chowder? From what I learned, chowder has potato in it.. so even though I didn’t puree the lobster for a bisque, I guess it was closer to bisque than a chowder. I was hankering for some lobster “soup” and decided since we were having all these cold, windy days, there was no… Continue reading »

Nick and I had wanted to get out and get some snowshoeing in this Christmas break.  We were both off, we were just waiting for some snow.  We finally got some.  Just not much.  Not enough to snowshoe.  So we decided to just “boot” through the woods.  We took the shotguns along in the off… Continue reading »

Let’s just say this game makes Monopoly look like a short game of UNO. Nathan received “Allies & Axis“ “Axis & Allies” from us for Christmas and we started this game yesterday!  That’s right.  We played for two hours before going over to the Harris Rd for a Christmas tree and meal.  Then we resumed… Continue reading »

The final tree picking. We took our time at the house this morning and eventually worked our way over to the Harris Rd for our final Christmas.  The setting was a bit different this year. The garage was revamped for Thanksgiving this year and that worked so well, Jess’ folks decided to decorate it for… Continue reading »

Nathan was just as excited as he always is on Christmas.  It’ll be a few more years before he’s not the first one up on Christmas morning.  We were up before seven and all the gifts unwrapped in less than twenty minutes.  Which is a good thing, it makes you feel like you didn’t over… Continue reading »

Ever since I was a kid, we had stockings on Christmas Eve.  It seems to work out well.  It helps curb the excitement to get a little something simple to entertain us for a few more hours.  We’ve kept the tradition going at the house now even for Mama and Dada.

It warmed up today.  That helped melt the driveway off and also to make the snow a bit sticky.  Just enough to make snowballs and bricks.  I encouraged Nathan to go out and build a snow fort.  He jumped at it.  And dragged me with him. We slapped up a small one with the limited… Continue reading »