almost did it......

busy Thanksgiving week and weekend..here to Maine, a foot of snow, van got stuck twice up there, had a great dinner Amy made, ran the 5K with her group, made it to Boston to pick up Katy and Jennie, had a fun girls' time going to NY for a bridal shower....then literally BAM it ended when a huge buck came right out in front of us as we started our return trip. Jennie was in the van and said "I don't like that! The deer should have a sign to cross!" We weren't hurt and the van is staying in CT for repairs as I try to wrangle hard-to-find parts from CA and Canada. Better than parts for us. Thankful for the van for taking one for the team. Grateful Jennie is fine and that Katy and Pep who were in the front did not have antlers come through the windshield. I was just happy to find the license plate the next day. Thankful to my sister and her husband for helping us, lending their car, and letting us overstay at their house. Grateful to my sister-in-law who was driving behind us... she didn't get hurt and amazed that she could fit the entire contents of the van into her car plus us and return us to my sister's house. That buck was flat out in the road...we thought it was a goner...but then he sat up and after a few minutes got up and walked away without limping. Just glad to be home.

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quick trip for the kids...saw the large barge:) as we went over the bridge

made it to the other side to watch it go through the canal

Ty DOES wear his sunglasses at night!

a little Lion King

all cozy on a chilly night:)

not that little now!

This time last year when Coach 1st came on the scene!!!

sweet big brother

James came home with a $10.00 gift card he won in a raffle. He said he wanted to go check out the dollar store. I said sure or he could get one bigger thing at Target. But the dollar store won out because he said "5 plus 5 equals 10 and then I could choose 5 things and Maggie can choose 5 things." They are such buddies.....and I love seeing that:)))

table topper!

hey Maggie!! see you soon! tell Mom! xo

a closer look.....

being the true princess fan, Jennie is studying the decorations on the pumpkin princess dress.... then said "I think she is Rapunzel!"

no show

I haven't been here because of many reasons and although we were lucky with the freak October snowstorm that we only had the high winds and rain and lost power for 20 hours my heart goes out to my old hometown and surrounding areas in CT which are still without power or have just had it restored and so many trees came down due to the weight of the leaves which freakishly have hung on so late this year and they had live wires all over the place and to hear terms like "war zone" and to see the photos and postings of friends has been very sad and while I know someone who has been out there on the poles helping to restore power to homes he has had to endure being yelled at and sworn at by people because the workers are doing the best they can but they are caught inside of a scandal/"situation" happening with the power company over nonpayment of services to out-of state utility companies so crews went to other parts of the state to make matters worse and I hope everyone has their power back soon because people should not be dying when firetrucks cannot make it to the scene of a fire:(((( and other people have died because of carbon dioxide poisoning while my sister-in-law from CT was here for 4 days we kept checking on the updates to see what was going on at home who would ever imagine such an awful situation would take place or that kids would have their Halloween canceled just like the Grinch stealing Christmas and school has been out of session going on 6 days and if someone told you all that would happen in late October you would tell them to get their head examined so anything I have going on is the "small stuff" annoyances right now have a nice day:)