Christmas Eve we decorated Gingerbread Houses!

The Haywards at Christmas.........

We spent Christmas Day afternoon at the Allens...

Avery got a Fisher Price digital camera that can download its pictures to a computer!

Here are the "grown-ups".........

Final tally after Sunday's storm... 12 inches?

7:30 p.m. photo report......

I was able to leave work early , and I made it home before the snow started!

Photos of the storm around 4:00 p.m.

It was a winter wonderland up here today!

Do you remember how straight and tall these birch trees used to be?

Sunday in Newport....

We toured some VERY large summer mansions which were decorated for the Christmas season.

This is a Christmas tree made out of white Poinsettias...

This is the front hallway of the Vanderbilt estate....

Santa was real, but Peter declined to sit on his lap.

Turkey Day 2008

My camera was finally repaired and returned to me this week!! We had our annual Thanksgiving Day blast of a gathering of friends and family! We missed Evan this year, so I made sure that he was remembered in all our pictures!

Trying to go "green" on laundry day....

This was our Sunday for visitors!!

Tim's college roommate Ed and his wife Kim came from Boston.

John and Bethany came and brought.....

Eric and Asuka.

And even Peter stood still long enough to take a picture.

Everybody grabbed a picking bag and went to work.

The Allens came for the afternoon.

They got to have a tractor ride.

...and saw all the apples in the lower cooler.

Mike tried his hand at picking....

Kris and Jen just celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary.

Rory was checking out the apples that John picked.