November 2017

Photo dump! I haven't been taking many, but here's a glimpse of the end of the year:

He's finally getting interested in art

First attempts at dumplings was a hit

Got to meet my nephew, less than 24 hours old!

Super sweet and squishy

Hudson wanted to name him "Hudson's cousin". That was nicely negated, haha

Their heads are so tiny when they're first born!!!

Our dose of culture for the week. Super slow and the kids loved it

Made it to NY for Thanksgiving and lots of cousin time

But first the kids and I went to VT for a few days and they got their first snow

which Hudson was determined to eat all of

Big windstorm had come through the previous week and all the edge firs had been blown down

Giant root balls

Very fun to clamber on

And then we stopped to see Aunt Anna and tour Troy

Lunch at Famous 

It's amazing to me how well they all get along. Ava especially does a great job of keeping Hudson entertained and out of mischief

My inheritance, lol. Love the pattern of this china and we got to use it for our Thanksgiving meal

Sue making her famous apple crisp, the first of 4 batches we ate.

Miiiiight have been my idea initially but I didn't really mean it, but then we went ahead and had our first annual 1 mile "fun" run. 

Steve made us race bibs, our number was our age. Since Paul and I are the same, mine was "34.5".

We all made it! Actually, there was some cutting across of the track by a certain member...but the rest of us did it! 

Kids table

The chefs and their spread. Melanie won the mashed potato showdown by impartial and blind judging.

Late nights and early mornings starting to show

Henri and her great gram who she was named after

Went for a hike

Henri and Ava on the playhouse roof