December 2015

Christmas 2015

Christmas eve traditional first gift:  candy

 Kate made a 'Burgess family' Christmas stocking for Rachael

 

 Lizzie reads The Night Before Christmas to us all.

Christmas full moon

 Santa came!

no snow

 It's not Christmas without sweet 'zip zip' bread.

 Maeve's new fingernails

 Martin's new toys

 nice weather

  Taking down Santa's gifts

 new chairs!

 the Grands really enjoyed their new chairs!

 Christmas cardinal

 Christmas popovers

 Christmas bacon and cinnamon rolls and sweet bread

 Enjoying Gramp's popcorn balls and his reading glasses

 boxes continue to be fun 

 Lizzie thinks these are excellent gifts!

New Yankee Swap thistle feeder; 

Sunny kitty and I watching/enjoying the gold finches, who found the feeder minutes after putting it out there.

Grands playing on the see saw in the snow

Wine tasting dinner with Dina, Joe, Trudy and Royce in Pittsfield

Bon fire for Winter solstice party

We are in the Bangor airport getting ready to head to DC for TC and Elise's wedding, Dec 13th

excited to fly!

hotel pool fun

rehearsal dinner

hotel room relaxation

Metro

Natural History Museum visit

'Aunt Laurie's' elephant

dressing for the wedding

Elise and her mother and step father

 
Aunt Char, mother of the groom

fixing a belt

Tom and Char

TC and groomsmen

Cousins Molly and Debbie; Char in front of them

Maeve fell asleep

Bob Worthley serving drinks at the table outside our hotel

Took the Metro to the zoo

baby panda camera

lunch at the zoo

planning

quite a stroller full!

evening in DC at Christmastime

breakfast at the hotel

Big tree in the airport

 

Tyler Norris' horses giving wagon rides back home

Beautiful winter sunrise; warmish/foggy; put ice frosting on the trees

New 'beamer' from Chris and Paul Faria (large pink glass)

New 'beamer' from Alison and Mike Rush (filled with milkweed seeds)

Rehearsal dinner with Laurie and TC

Ryan made us a sign on the slate

'Dickens' family Christmas party

Kate's rollups

Rachael's delicious cranberry banana bread

crab dip

 Tom makes the special drink (white sangria)

 The littles helped Aunt char make the fruit tree.

 Uncle John R got the golf cart going for the kids... Michael M is working hard to be a good/safe driver.

 lego fun 

 Aunt / Grammy Laurie gets a ride!

Series of family pictures