Thanksgiving

What is Thanksgiving without a road race to burn off all the yummy food?  We went to the 75th Manchester Road Race, with about 15,000+ other racers, the 2nd largest race in America after the Boston Marathon we heard (true?). It was crazy: the costumes, dodging people the entire 5 miles, the cold... but totallyl FUN!  Merideth - our adopted daughter- came with us and we met up with the Manning/Hudson clan. Then the Wheelers and the Martins came over for backyard football and the FEAST, including turkey cookies of course!

Karinn's baptism

Karinn turned 8 and decided to be baptised into the Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  What a beautiful, sweet, faithful, happy girl. 

For her birthday party, she wanted to go pick apples with the Wheelers and her grandparents.  We got a hayride without hay on a beautiful fall day!  Then, we went on a hike before we went home for dinner, cake and presents.

I'm dreaming of a white... Halloween!

We got about 20 inches of snow in 24 hours on Oct 28th... Because leaves were still on the trees and the snow was so heavy, branches were breaking and snapping every few minutes.  We were without power for 9 days.  Power lines were laying all over the streets.  It looked like a war zone.  Because we are on a well, we also had no water.  We had plenty of food storage, water saved, and water from our stream, but our food started thawing too quickly with the snow.  So we threw the food into our roof rack and headed out to DC to visit Heather/Todd and Diana/Tyson.  They were our salvation, while we fed them well.  We got to see some fun sites too, like Mt. Vernon and downtown DC.  A great, unexpected vacation.  Now its back to the cleanup.  Due to the storm, e are now the proud owners of a generator.

Autumn Time

Autime Time meant no football this year for Trevor. Since he could only play 1 game per season (the ONLY game played on Saturday and not the normal Sunday games), he decided to try cross country.  They have a wonderful coach and about 140 kids.  Trevor loved it...  and took off running fast!  His PR was a 6:13 min mile for 2.3 miles.   

 Adam and Trevor participated together in the Parent vs Suffield meet.  They stayed together most of the time.  I won't tell you who won. :)

Jared is still in Cub scout, and I'm still their leader.  Going on my 4th year now, so sometimes I opt for something other than the blah brown shirt - and was caught in this photo giving some attitude.  We were visiting town hall and the First Selectman.

Jared's still playing travel soccer.  Just to put it into perspective, it started snowing an hour after this game.  See the previous post for the snow report - it was our HUGE storm, which meant the boys were freezing here!

Trevor and Adam got to spend some quality time together this fall:  they played paintball with a bunch of friends again, and then went caving in upstate NY with Trevor's scout troop.  This is cleaning up after the weekend of caving.  Mud was everywhere and only a hose could help.

Only the top 7 runners were in the A state cross country finals.  So Trevor was in the B race, but came in the top 50 runners and medaled.  There was easily 500 runners in the B race. YAY Trev!