Thanksgiving 2011
Jen & Dan hosted Thanksgiving dinner at their beautiful, spacious new home (Em & Michael & Thalia were in Colorado Springs with Michael's family). On Friday we drove to the cabin, and Emmy, Michael, and Thalia joined us on Saturday for food, skiing, sledding, and games, especially UNO.

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1. Before hostessing, Jen worked out and then with Zachy's help decorated Clara's room

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3. On the new deck on a balmy Thanksgiving day

4. The Rothbergs - Brian, Noriko, and children Gen (7) and Sachi (4) - came to dinner. Here Zachy, Sachi, Clara, and Gen play UNO.

5. Dr2B Alex, Brian, Sachi

6. Graciela (Alex's mom) and Katie

7. Maisy

8. Dan and Noriko

9. Mother helping hostess daughter

10. Before...

11. After

12. kids' table

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16. watching Cars 276

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19. clean-up time

20. Cars 824

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23. Bye bye to the Rothbergs, who biked over

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29. Friday, at the cabin - Turkey soup!

31. craft time

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33. Zach's first game of Clue (he won)

34. riding "wagon horse"

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38. Dinner Friday night at the cottage

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40. Saturday morning playtime

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42. Jen and Dan head out for a ski (they saw a moose!)

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44. Clara helps shovel the deck

45. Zach digs proto-snow cave

46. Thalia arrives - about noon Saturday

47. Terese Swartz Quartier, fresh from her home in France, meets Thalia for the first time

48. Sharon, Anna, Ben, Deb

49. Michael, Terri, Zach, Clara, Jen

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51. Anna, Ben, Deb

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53. Ben and Deb

54. Sue and David stopped in for a visit

55. Dan, Sharon, Laurie

56. Terri and her Dad, Bob

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61. Jen, Anna, Sharon, Laurie

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63. Lunch on Saturday

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65. Sledding! Zach knocks over big icicles stuck in the snow

66. oops...

67. Zachy, Dan, and Clara, with Cora annoying them

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69. Dan with Zach behind

70. Clara wouldn't zip her jacket, and carried that icidle around all morning

71. The F150 was brought out of storage

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74. Anna and Terri

75. cousins

76. cousins and 3 moms

77. time to go...

78. bye to Laurie and the Swartzes, who all looked just great

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82. Saturday evening gets underway

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84. Sunday morning dawned cold

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87. hanging up the bellows after restoring the fire

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91. Second day of sledding begins

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101. Dan and Zachy get ready for a sled run...

102. Here they are...

103. There they go! (Cora, as usual, in hot pursuit)

104. Grandpa and Cora crashed into a snowbank

105. Dan and Zach crash

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111. bye bye (blowing kisses)

112. Lunch on the deck after everyone else had left