Alright, it’s been awhile!  This is going to be skimpy on details, but something is better than nothing at all, eh?

 

Let’s start with Thanksgiving…MMMMMMMmmmmmm.  We did the lonely thing this year seeing that traveling with a newborn is not on the list of favorites.   Gary had from Wednesday on…off.  We sure enjoyed having him home for so long.  He made a Herculean effort to not touch work over the holiday which added up to many hours of game playing, moving watching, and Christmas-preparing with the family.  AWESOME!

 

Here’s the spread all spread out and ready to go buffet style.  Good thing there’s so many of us or it would have felt strange to have such a spread for so few folks.

Little Gary Jr. LOVES the fireplace, a gene he inherited from his Mother. 

This year we let the kids do all the decorating in the tree Daddy chopped down for us.  They and he did a splendid job on their respective tasks.  We’ve all decided this is the best tree we’ve ever had.

 

The job’s not complete until Jacob gets his train going around the bottom and Georgie gets all her Polly Pockets loaded on the engine, caboose and track.  Fun stuff! 

This is the way little G, Gary Jr. or Little-Lo spends most of his time…hanging out on someones hip.  This time it was Dads turn.

Speaking of the little man, dontcha all wanna see how he’s grown?  He’s so dang cute and chubby.  At 6 weeks old he had gone from 6 lbs 6 oz to 9 lbs 6 oz.  He’s now 9 weeks old and pushing 11 lbs.   Rich milk!

 

I love this next shot, it reminds me of baby pictures of Gary the bigger for some reason.  Must be the jowls cause it sure ain’t the skinniness!

This past week we did candy houses.  Can’t neglect to record that annual event now can we?

   

    

     

And as a parting shot, here’s one more of the little man with a glimpse of what he’ll one day become IF and only IF he works really hard to follow in his older siblings footsteps

 

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA  Go Joseph!!