Claire waves bye-bye to the visiting Santa Claus making the rounds of the local neighborhoods passing out fire dept. trinkets and candy. All the neighborhood kids came out!

This'll make a good Christmas card photo

Thanksgiving 2008

Here's the "Grown Ups Table"!

Robby plays with his food more than he eats its!

Claire creatively consuming Thanksgiving dinner from the comfort of the "Kids table" while the adults ate in the OTHER ROOM! :)
Robby slinking up the back stairs to see what's going on with the adults! (BUSTED!)

Pumpkin picking at Thompson farm! (Pre-Halloween)
(Sorry for being out of chronology!)

Daddy puts a 'rastafarian hat with included dreads' on Robby.
(The hat was actually Fuzzy Grandpa's costume for work at the library.)

Hannah as "ATHENA" with her dog, ARTEMIS
No, really, Claire DOES eat.
Kathleen, and our neighbor, Brian.
All school Mass at St. Patrick Church/School

Halloween

the crew
Tiki
Conor
Robby

assorted October pics

Claire goin' out to dinner!

Kathleen turns 11. (Rainforest Cafe)
Trick or treating in the 'hood.
Claire as a bunny!

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Here's Hannah smirking about me getting off a photo before she could block me!
Ha HA! Victory is Mine.

Hannah at Bball tourney

Hannah grabs pass
Hannah "picks"
Hannah rebounds, then passes
Hannah sprints

Derry NH Basketball Tourney

Hannah plays a killer POST
Go Hannah!
She SHOOTS!
She SCORES!

Hannah's concert 5-29-08

Here is Hannah playing a solo (okay..she and the guy next to her, but just them) for the intro to this song. There was a chord pattern that the rest of the kids couldn't play.
Anyway, some of you will like this......listen closely!

Claire's 1st pigtails! We all think they're pretty cute!

April in Middlesex

As seen from South Bear Swamp rd (facing northward)
Spring is shaping up to be beautiful. We've had well over a week of 70 degree weather, and there's still snow on the ground. If you zoom in on these pictures, (just click on it--when you're done looking, don't forget to hit the browser back button to return here) you'll see that it's still a foot or more deep in places. In our yard there are a couple of patches of 4-6 inches. Arie runs outside and rolls in them. She wishes she could keep them all year.




Same general spot, facing southward
More of the southward side of the rd
Well, they're not chickens, but they're much cuter.
Speaking of chickens: we caught a weasel. (A mink to be specific.) We had two traps set (Hav-a-hart) with the chickens they killed as bait. One of the traps was empty, but the chicken was taken out. (the trap didn't trip) The other trap was pretty well frozen into the coop, and we couldn't check it. When the thaw finally came, we (Kathleen, really) opened the coop and found the weasel, sans chicken, dead in the trap. I might post the photo of the mink on the other side of this blog. Go to 'my profile', then to other blogs, chicken massacre, I'll put it over there.)