Random November Thoughts

The past week in Connecticut has been fair and unseasonably warm.  Today was no exception.  It seemed like the perfect opportunity to rake the leaves and clean up the yard a bit.  We continue to clear tree branches from our yard, putting them out by the street for the city to come get them.  Simsbury says that they're up to the task of gathering all the stuff left by the storm, but I doubt they will actually get everything collected before it snows.

Ah memories.   Here we are gathered around the firepit cooking stew!

Hannah celebrated her 17th birthday with a small party for friends.  She tricked out the downstairs with a strobe light and invited a friend to DJ the event.  They proceeded to crank the volume until his subwoofer just gave up the ghost and quit.  I felt bad for him.

Skylar started walking suddenly a few weeks ago.  This is traditionally the way that it happens but surprising anyways.  Overnight she changed from a crawling baby to a toodling toddler.  Now would probably be a good time to really make sure that the house is really baby proofed.

Skylar also celebrated her first birthday on November, smack in the middle of the power outage.  We had a small candle light celebration for her.  A large one with electricity and heat was held on November.  Susan and I gave her a 4' tall mini mouse.  It was just one of the cool things that she received; the kid made out like a bandit.

My mom, who also celebrated her birthday on 11/15, and Dad are coming up for Thanksgiving.  We'll have a good time.  Hopefully we'll have a chance to spend a little time at Simsbury Celebrates, the traditional local kick off to the holiday season.