November

November of course was Thanksgiving, and I have a lot to be thankful for.  My kids are healthy and usually happy, Jer works really hard and is a great dad and husband, we live in a beautiful place, and the list goes on.  We spent Thanksgiving in Preston this year followed by a little shopping early the next morning with my mom.  The month was cold and a little snowy and went by fast!  

After Addison's baptism at the beginning of the month we got to go to Great-Grandma Burbank's house and pick some treasures to keep.  She is now permanently in a nursing home.  Among other things Seth chose this sweet tape player and a case of tapes.  He has been jamming to Kenny Rogers and John Denver.  Since my kids are packrats and are probably hoarders in the making they came home with everything from bowling balls to Christmas ornaments, to knives, to bolo ties.  

 
It was actually cold and snowy for a bit in November before winter went away!

This kid is a little adventurer and naturalist at heart!

 
Indians and pilgrims?

 

 
We also went over to my dad's old stomping grounds here in Wellsville.  He was literally raised in this barn milking his dad's cows, and we went to take a few pictures before it falls down!  A little barn cat became Seth's BFF and joined us for many of the pictures.  It was a very gray, cold day with the worst possible light for taking pictures, but we got a few semi-decent ones.

   

 

 

We also started basketball and wrapped it up this past Saturday.  Hallelujah!  It's ski season.  The boys were not up for posing for pics, but they had fun.