Christmas Things

Justin and the Big Man.

Chopped our own tree, here in the bed of the dump truck.

My favorite Reindeer.

The train set at South Station is always cool.

Heavy snow, and very cold just a few days before the big night...

Turkey stuff

Breakfast coffee cake from Grandma!

Interesting skies on the way to Somerset

A Quad ride with Uncle Doug and cousins Josh and Elizabeth after dinner!

Oh boy do I like pancakes!

Book project vest. Drawing by Dad, coloring by Justin.

Good job painting the house Mom and Dad... wait we're moving?

So we're at this party on Friday night... on my way down the hall something caught my eye... then I saw someone looking back at me...

abandoned obsolete technology

.. I don't know... it just struck me funny
... since I feel like I haven't seen one in about 100 years.

Holy Plastic Crabcakes Batman!

Charyou Tree... come Reap.

Halloween Night!

Two Mummies (Justin & Blake) ready to Trick or Treat!

Good buddy Wolverine (Dylan)

The Mummy... and his Mummy.

Our young hip neighbor friends!

Halloween seasoning

Trees burning around campus these days. (10/14)

A meloncoly cowboy

Batgirl?

Jen met the North Blue Eagle at the North/South Soccer game Friday Night.

This witch likes oatmeal.

The Kids at a neighborhood party Saturday night... and Chubby the dog.

Some of the carved pumpkins from the party.

Justin and I did the Grim Reaper. Crystal did the small Dracula with him.

After dark things got spooky.

We even had time on Sunday to help Justin make some gravestones for the front yard.

Not bad... especially with that fresh blue paint in the background...

Happy Shopping

Jen was having a great time moving things around at the Home Despot

Nothing says happy... like exterior lights.

more weekend fun

The house is turning blue...

Fire!

weekend things

A trip to Home Depot

Catch with Heidi

House painting... moving forward like a speeding glacier

Shopping for Pumpkins

Things you see in Cambridge

Gorges... not Georges

Arches on Campus

Ahh the joy of being 6

New Batman Legos!

Racecars from Cousin Scott!

Thanks!

Do not exploit the hand that feeds...

Would this be considered the youtube drive-through rule?

Shelter Island Weekend

Justin and I had a fun short weekend trip to Shelter Island from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Scott and Lee Grey were up staying at Crazy Oaks for a vacation and I really wanted to get down and see them. The forcast was for rain and lots of it thanks to hurricaine Hannah so I decided to go down to hang out for a day or so given that I wouldn't be able to make much progress on my house painting at home.

We arrived late Friday night and did some catching up. Saturday morning Justin and I went for a long walk over on Silver Beach and crossed the creek to walk along the other side. Scott and Lee joined us on the way back. We then took their little raft out and did some fun exploring around Crab Creek, and even invaded a few sandbars and checked for pirates.

The rain didnt come until later in the afternoon giving us a chance to try out Scott and Lee's new Bikeboard. They are selling these niffy rides now and they are true hot item. The one we used is one of only a handfull currently in the US. We had a blast riding around on the bike. Justin could stand up easily in front of me and we zipped along, up and down hills for several miles.

Justin had some fun with the doggies after the rain started then Scott and I had lots of fun getting soaked but still successfully grilling the chicken dinner with corn on the cob and everything worked out great.
We were able to get another nice long run in on the Bikeboard on Sunday before we headed home to catch Mom and Amanda at Missy's Christening party for her new son Christopher.
A lot of fun to see Scott and Lee (even though the whole Colts thing...) and to ride the new Bikeboard. Here are some phonepix from the weekend events.

Justin and Dad saddle up the Bikeboard

Scott and Noodles

We needed some improvisation in order to grill during the monsoon. Of course NOT grilling never occured to us.

This banner greeted me... lousy Colts fans...

Indoor games with Noodles while it rained.

Scott and Justin take the Bikeboard Sunday morning.

Learning new tricks with Noodles and Lilly.

Bootleggers Alley. We stopped to check the view on our Sunday morning ride.

The Ferry home.