Broke Down

My laptop inexplicably died over the weekend. It had tens of thousands of pictures on it (someday I will get around to printing some of them) that had mostly been backed up. Tom was able to save me, but it involved completely recovering it, back to the original factory settings. Fortunately he was able to get all the pictures off before he did it (safe mode? I have no idea what that is). So I am back in business with pictures to share.

We had a nice Thanksgiving, Tom took a few days off so we had grand plans for something fun. Instead we shuffled around the house and mostly stayed in. We did get the Christmas boxes down from the attic and went to the Festival of Lights parade. And we'll will get a tree this weekend. Patrick is very excited. I am very nervous. I have a nice collection of Christopher Radko ornaments that I love. I had vivid visions of my lovely but fearless Molly crashing right into the tree and glass flying everywhere. I picture things like this often. Tom tells me it is not normal. I'm not so convinced.

A few pics from Thanksgiving and the parade...











And just for fun, a few outtakes of our Christmas card pictures.






(She's trying to bite him here!)

My Thanksgiving

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone! We did the usual two house Thanksgiving day tour, Tom was a little ill at the end of it all. Every years he says he needs to pace himself better and every year he overeats. Oops! :)

Tom's parents live on a street lined in beautiful ginkgo trees. At Thanksgiving they are always shedding their bright yellow leaves and it makes a perfect fall scene (well, as perfect as fall in California can get). I wanted to take some pictures of Patrick int he leaves but there weren't many on the ground. Somehow I convinced Tom to climb up into the tree to shake some leaves down (amazingly, he remembered exactly how to get up into the tree, he climbed it a lot as a kid). That didn't work so well but I did get some cute pictures of him holding the kids in the trees.

Here I Am

Yoo hoo (waving my hand), I'm still here! Life has been busy this week. On Tuesday I had oral surgery under full-on anesthesia (a wonderful thing), we finally got around to having the backyard landscaped, we're getting ready for Thanksgiving and Molly's baptism next weekend, and I've been doing some Christmas shopping. The Christmas tree in Union Square was lit this weekend which struck me as a little early, but I've been hearing friends talk about already getting their trees up this week! Halloween was only 2.5 weeks ago! I need to get through November before I even begin to think about setting up decorations. And here I thought I was pretty slick for having half my shopping done.

Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving! Patrick has a VERY rough day yesterday so we were a little worried about today but he did very well. We had two dinners, one with Tom's parents at about 3, and a second one with my Mom & Michael at about 6:30. Patrick didn't really get into turkey and stuffing but he did enjoy the pumpkin pie!