Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was at Grammy Rose's house this year.  An oh-so-very cozy place to be for such a holiday.  Auntie, Uncle, cousins and their friend were there too.  My family drove to our house, and then we drove on from here together in our big green van, over the river to Grandma's house.

There was football, of course, for those who are deeply interested in that sort of thing (a majority!),

and wonderful food, delightfully fun to prep together.

 

Gathering and singing,

and then eating! 

Then naps...                                                                          and sitting by the fire,

and games in the evening.

Then home again late.  A blessing of a day.

Snowstorm

It was delicious to be out Friday afternoon in the storm.  My favorite people and I were snug as can be in the truck cab.  My man drove, the babies napped, and I slurped the hot tea from my travel mug. 
(Our destination?  The store to pick up my new sewing machine!)

a November treat

We had a visit from dear friends we hadn't seen in far too long!  It was lovely to spend a couple of days with Natalie & Lyndsay. 

Autumn album

Candles & Pumpkins

Thyme dried from the garden

Early mornings with my [delicious] babies



Snow pants...so fun!



Sparkly teacup shirt!



Canning playdough :)

Always dancing

Lemons & Bay

Popcorn with Daddy!



Chalk-pictures
(last of the season)



Crunching leaves for the first time



Best buddies



Experimenting with brown rice pilaf

Sillies at naptime

Wood stacking day at our house
(Many thanks to my man, my daddy and dad-in-law,
brother and brother-in-law)

Iced-in-day beauty by sister Ana



Iced-in-day beauty by sister Leah



Iced-in-day dishwashing :)



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Treasure-boy wants to play with toys now!

 

Taken at Ft. Laramie

kitchen window garden

cozy together

The babies and I spent a night at the farm and had such lovely minutes with the folks.  Among other normalish-home-day things we did, I pulled out Mama's stash of magazines and found all sorts of pictures to cut out to make collage calenders for us for the coming year (a project I am very excited about!)  Olivia worked on her beautiful layered colored paper art and took turns soothing Mister Tired-&-Teething.  We listened to an exciting audiobook and drank hot tea that Mama brought to us on a tray.  Spiced apple candle and a red geranium.  Simply lovely.

~Our happy afternoon craft table in the sunpatch at Mama's yesterday.~

What else did we do?  Ate wonderful food cooked & baked by Mama and Livi, enjoyed watching Greta pretend to cook & can, sang songs, drank lots of hot tea, washed dishes, did a few housekeeping dailies, relaxed (I did!), watched a Nigella Christmas episode on the laptop at bedtime, enjoyed being together.  

Pictures taken by Mama & me