Oh Vermont!

We have so many wonderful pictures from our week in Peru VT. For a while it was just too daunting to post them. But now finally here they are. Believe it or not this colection has been whittled down considerably. We'd like to thank Grandma Susan and Grandpa Peter for hosting such a nice family gathering. Ah the memories...



Mommy arrives!


Family ski day at Bromley!


Elsie's third birthday cake! It was pink! Thanks Anna!



The girls weren't too happy about this sled ride:




Cora Jane! At last we meet!














Classic Dave pose!


Classic Arthur pose!







Feeling cousin Huck's bellyful of twins:








Go cousin Thomas!

Washington DC

Here's some pictures sent by Grandkathy from the Washington DC christmasfest. What fun we all had! Thanks for hosting so well Laura, Dave, Thomas and Emmett!



Elsie got a "dancing dress" from Grandkathy:

Song at GrandKathy's Studio

Also check out this post about our recent visit to New Haven!

Dramatic ski video!

Holidays Pt. 1

As we unload our cameras and continue to receive great pics from our east coast travels, here's the first installment: the journey east.

For those who didn't know, our direct nighttime flight into NYC got canceled due to a snow storm and after much fretting we ended up rebooking on an 11 hour route connecting through Long Beach, CA, not ideal for a lone daddy with the two girls, but seemed to be the best option. We got up at 4:30 am and sucked it up for the big trip. I'd have taken more pictures but I was busy trying to keep things together. Here are the girls lounging about during our 3 hour layover in the small Long Beach terminal. Nice people took pity on us:


Theo passed the time by taking snickers bars from the snack bar.


Finally we boarded the plane.


Theo fell asleep.


six long hours later we were in Washington, DC where lovely aunt Laura met us and the girls ran about with glee...

Home soon!

We've had a wonderful and long holiday visit back east, lots of pictures and stories to come, including an account of Daddy, Elsie and Theo's 11 hour coast to coast journey, but for now here's two skiing pictures that were sent our way. The others have to wait until we download them from the overflowing cameras...