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.
112 images 2. 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 13. 14. 15. 16. watching Cars 276 17. 18. 19. clean-up time 20. Cars 824 21. 22. 23. Bye bye to the Rothbergs, who biked over 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Friday, at the cabin - Turkey soup! 31. craft time 32. 33. Zach's first game of Clue (he won) 34. riding "wagon horse" 36. 37. 38. Dinner Friday night at the cottage 39. 40. Saturday morning playtime 41. 42. Jen and Dan head out for a ski (they saw a moose!) 43. 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 50. 51. Anna, Ben, Deb 52. 53. Ben and Deb 54. Sue and David stopped in for a visit 55. Dan, Sharon, Laurie 56. Terri and her Dad, Bob 57. 59. 60. 61. Jen, Anna, Sharon, Laurie 62. 63. Lunch on Saturday 64. 65. Sledding! Zach knocks over big icicles stuck in the snow 66. oops... 67. Zachy, Dan, and Clara, with Cora annoying them 68. 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 72. 73. 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 79. 80. 81. 82. Saturday evening gets underway 83. 84. Sunday morning dawned cold 85. 86. 87. hanging up the bellows after restoring the fire 88. secret 89. 90. 91. Second day of sledding begins 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 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 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. bye bye (blowing kisses) 112. Lunch on the deck after everyone else had left |