Christmas #2: Hagerstown

Christmas #1: Home

December Snowstorm

The boys and Coco thoroughly enjoyed the early season opportunity to play in the snow...

Firebird Festival

We celebrated pre-Firebird Fest by lifting our mugs of Grogg (mulled wine) and eating ginger cookies, traditional Krampus party fare. Then we walked downtown to watch the 30' tall Phoenix burn. Is that Krampus's vissage in the flames?

1982 Chevy Tioga Arrow

We made our dream of a major US roadtrip a reality with the purchase of a 1982 RV. It needs quite a bit of work on the inside but it runs strong. Luckily we have 6 months to prepare it for our trip next summer...

Coco's Ears

Coco continues to learn how to control her big, crazy-looking ears. They really allow her to express herself...

She took her first swim in French Creek at St. Peters Village. She can swim but she didn't particularly like it...

Hiking at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site

We took Coco for her first hike at Hopewell Furnace. She did really well off of her leash...

Kade's Birthday Weekend

We took Kade bowling for his birthday...
Kade celebrates a spare...

and then watches for the spare to show up on the scoreboard...

We had brownies when we got back to our house...

Kade blew out the candles...

and opened presents...

Then we went for a walk at Valley Forge....

Luckily it was nice and warm for November since Kade ended up with no shirt...

Coco's Ears

Is Coco a German Shepherd? Her ears are starting to look quite German Shepherdish.

Wink!!!

A Growing Puppy

Coco is growing rapidly. We are wondering if she is going to end up getting bigger than we originally expected...

Halloween

Kade dressed up as his favorite Nintendo character, Luigi, and I was his "brother", Mario...
Logan and Leif went trick-or-treating in a group of their friends. Each kid was a different horror movie icon. Leif was Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Steven King's It. Logan was Jason from Friday the 13th...