Backtrack c. Guy Fawkes Night

Last year we never got around to celebrating Guy Fawkes (or Bonfire) night, but we were determined to do so this year. Dylan built a beautiful effigy and even planted some firecrackers in so that when we lit him on fire there were quite a lot of pops, screams and bangs. I don't know all the details, but Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament. He obviously didn't succeed, and I don't know when it was they started celebrating Guy Fawkes night in England, but it's been a long time.

Backtrack b. Election night.

This was a very exciting night for all of us, especially Dylan, as it was his first Presidential vote. We all went to the Smithville Flats town hall, which is a beautiful old building - they still have old-fashioned voting booths too. Katie was very excited about what was going on as well, and she was allowed to go into the booth with Dylan. Then we all bought some snacks and went to the library to watch everything on the computers (as we don't have TV channels at home). We had a wonderful time and were all very happy at the election results.

Backtrack a. Jack-O-Lanterns

These are the jack-o-lanterns that Dylan, Katie & I carved for Halloween. The bottom picture shows a pumpkin painted by Dylan (the other side of which is in the 2nd picture - the black skull with halo and wings).

A New Post: Katie's Birthday & the Play

These pictures are shown out of order, but oh well. Katie was in the play "Alice in Wonderland" and opening night was on her birthday. So in the later pictures she still has her stage makeup on. She got some very nice gifts: a rasp (?) to trim her horses hooves, and a lovely troxel helmet, among other things. In Alice in Wonderland she played a flower.

Decemberists Concert!

I just remembered that we ALL went to this amazing, smashing Decemberists concert in Ithaca. They are big Obama fans, and they made great comments about the current pres., and about Obama. The crowd got into an excited frenzy when he instructed us that when anyone says "Yes we can" we can say "Yes we did!" and he'd shout "Yes we can" and we'd shout back "Yes we did!" Dylan put one of the videos on youtube. See if this link works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDMfZzug1pI

A new post: no pics

Hello everyone. I'm still alive, and I thought I had new pictures with me today at the library, but alas, I do not. I will hopefully be able to update soon - since I am WAY behind - and get everything up to date before Christmas! (at least I can use school as an excuse now, eh?)

I hope everyone had a jolly Thanksgiving.