Thanksgiving and Christmas Tree

Lindsey and I spent this years Thanksgiving out in Pike River...or Lindsey's parents place. It was a rather quiet affair, with only Lindsey's parents, her sister, and nephew Joey, but it was really nice. Becky cooked some great food for dinner and later in the weekend Paul cooked up some of the venison he nabbed this year. I also had a good time driving the Gator around (helping Paul haul wood into the house). Lets let the pictures speak for themselves...

A week ago, Amanda, of former Peace Corps Volunteer from our city in China fame, drove all the way from Chicago to come visit for the weekend. Lindsey forced us to go stand in the freezing cold to watch the Christmas City of the North Parade in Duluth, but it was fun. There was even a camel in the parade (picture didn't turn out)!

The chef and turkey cutter at work.

Its Lindsey and Joey. Joey's been a lot of fun lately, he's finally old enough to sit up, stick his tongue out, and eat blended peas, he's almost ready for college.

Here's the tree that Lindsey and I decided on for Christmas. It may only be November 25th...but we have a tree in our house!

Paul was quite excited about the prospect of having a picture of the Gator up on the website.

Lastly, here's the fully lighted tree. We only have about 20 ball ornaments on it so far, were still waiting on the box of goodies from NY to finish it off. We had a great weekend for Thanksgiving (great food Becky, thanks!) and we both can't wait to get to NY for Christmas, only one month away!

Halloween and Hunting Season

Halloween just passed us by and Lindsey and I didn't do too much. Yet, we still managed to carve pumpkins and watch The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. We did have one trick-or-treater at the door but Lindsey got scared and ran to hide under the covers. "People don't just come and knock on your door when you live in the country". But, it was a pretty good Halloween.

This weekend is also the start of what I recently discovered is this states biggest holiday, Hunting Season. The three other guys at my office are all taking multiple days off to go stay at their "shacks" in the woods for extended weekends. They were also dumbfounded when I looked at them quizzically about the song, The Thirty Point Buck. A song about shack and hunting life. No, I had never heard the song, nor is it played multiple times on radio stations in Syracuse, NY I sadly informed them. Sometimes they think I'm from another planet, but it's pretty funny.

Joey wishing he had a sweet sexy beard...someday little guy, someday.

The famous Duluth lift bridge.

They looked sweeter with our headlamps in them...really (we forgot to buy candles).