so. obviously, last thursday was thanksgiving. also known as the arbitrary point in time in which christmas grumps give us christmas lovers the go ahead for our public displays of holiday cheer. (before thanksgiving, all holiday cheer much be in hiding). this years thanksgiving festivities took place at derek’s sister’s new house. and here in […]
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november miscellany.
here’s my month installment of random happenings. i still have to go back and write a thanksgiving-ish post. and a post about the latest development in our lives. in due time. in due time. for now. a quick run through my favorite month of the year. 🙂 lego lab at the library with josiah. isaac’s […]
39.
on november 16th, i entered into my fortieth year on earth. that is to say, i turned thirty nine. it was a monday, but i started the celebration on the preceding thursday. firstly, i went out with some friends to the porch. so fun. i had a foothills frostbite black ipa to start things off. […]
veteran’s day at the zoo
the kids were off school on wednesday for veteran’s day, so we joined up with a few pals and had a zoo day adventure. isaac was super psyched to hang with his buddy josiah. anna wasn’t super excited about going to the zoo in the first place, but she came around. seals and sea lions. […]
anna’s kindergarten halloween party.
anna’s class had a fun halloween party last friday. i didn’t take many pics, but there were other mom photographers in the class, so i stole a bunch of pics of theannababy from the class website. and i just made an executive decision not to caption them. so. here you go: the. end. (i’m all […]
busy october. apparently.
excluding pics of our trip to NY, two field trips, anna’s class halloween party and actual halloween, i still managed to find 45 pictures of october happenings. and i totally could have had more. it was a fun month, i guess. of course like seven of them are hazel eating a donut. oops. here we […]
tricks or treats. 2015.
yesterday was halloween. obviously. and it was a saturday. so we had all day to get worked up about it. all along, the plan was for isaac to be harry potter. hazel would be olaf. and anna wanted to be a mix of darth vader and a princess. we just weren’t sure if it would […]
anna’s first field trip.
last week. i had the opportunity to go with annababy’s kindergarten to lazy 5 ranch. the kids rode the bus and the parents met at the ranch. upon arrival, anna determined that she was hungry and was quite grumpy and not interested in walking around and looking at cool animals. we did manage to trick […]
autumn in batavia. part 2.
when we returned from “the most sincere pumpkin patch” — we wandered over to the beach, where the lake folk were having a clam bake. Â the kiddos played in the sand, while we ate some sea creatures. later, there was a bit of excitement, when we managed to capture a frog from the “pond” of […]
the most sincere pumpkin patch.
it’s no secret that i miss western new york autumns. so, when i learned that my reunion was scheduled for the fall, i was so excited to partake in some our typical fall activities up there. it was tough to squeeze in, because of weather and reunion stuff, but on saturday, we headed off to […]