Christmas Parade

Sage danced in the Christmas Parade tonight. Their costumes were beautiful and the girls all looked like Santa's helpers. Unfortunately, a fuse blew in the speakers so they didn't have music and when it came time for the dance to introduce Santa, beside there being no music, the crowd wouldn't move for them to dance. Because most of their dance included kicks, it was a challenge for them to dance and not take out a kid or two... Oh well, it would have been okay if we hadn't given up our trip to Vermont for Val's cookie party. I guess there's always next year!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Had brunch at Nanny and Bampy's and this is a photo of all the cousins (sans Travis and Chad, so Adam and Chase are holding their pics). Stuffed ourselves silly on popovers, ham, eggs, biscotti, etc, etc, etc,. Then we went to Michelle and Deb's for dinner and ate all over again, turkey, stuffing, rolls, veggies, gravy, etc, etc, etc,.... But, boy was everything yummy!!! Michelle introduced us to letter boxing (kind of a lesser version of geo-caching) and had set up a hunt for the box and gave us clues and stamps. It was a blast and we looked up other sights in the area to try to find on another day. We thought it might be fun to try this when we're visiting a new place to see what that area may have set up. Missed Mom and Dad and Lis and Matt, who are all together at Lissa's today - wished we all lived closer so we could celebrate more holidays together... Oh well, at least we get great places to go on vacation when we go visit them.

Hope everyone had as a great a Thanksgiving as we did!

Ski Season Has Arrived!

Sugarloaf is open!!!!

Football Season

Chase's football season ended last week with a banquet where the teams and players were recognized and got t-shirts with their names on the back! This was Chase's first year playing football, switching from years of soccer and he had a fabulous season! He had the most tackles and according to him, the most sacks (and I think he's right).

Because of his soccer experience he became their kicker/punter as well and this is a pic I got has he kicked for an extra point, successfully!

We were told at the beginning of the season that our local team never wins in football, but luckily Chase didn't hear that and his team won all their games except for one. He loved football, but misses soccer so we'll see what he chooses next season. Though he's now focused on the upcoming ski season that actually starts Friday! Whohoo!

Field Hockey

Sage finished her field hockey season a few weeks ago on a successful note. Last year they struggled to win even one game and this year started a little shaky, but the score board was much closer than last year on each game. Her coach (our good friend Deb) decided to dangle a carrot in front of them (or more like a worm). She promised to eat a worm for every goal scored. It worked, they won the next game 3-0, tied one of the top teams 1-1, and then won their last game 3-1 (I think that was the score). Well Deb never dreamt it'd mean that many worms!!! But, boy were the girls psyched to end on a winning note! Next year it means pre-season as Sage will be starting high school, yikes!

Columbus Day Weekend

Okay, my sister says I'm lame and don't update my blogs enough, she's right. Here are a couple of photos from Columbus Day weekend. We went up to Sugarloaf for the weekend. They were running the SuperQuad and we got to ride up the mountain and then hike down. We packed a lunch and had a great day. As you can see, it was beautiful out! Now we can't wait for the snow to fly. It was too much work on foot when we know how fast we can get down on skis!