Thanksgiving at UT

Where else would anyone want to be?

The kids were great on the plane to Dallas, see?


...but we didn't stay long. The day after arriving, we drove to Austin for the majority of Thanksgiving.

We ran into several old friends in Austin. Including these beautiful girls:


To the kids, UT was one giant playground. The marble "slides" on the steps leading up to the Tower were great fun (and it didn't matter that it had just rained and everything was filthy):

Today in gymnastics class, Max was afraid to walk on the balance beam, but he showed absolutely no fear on the walls around campus, even if they were taller than Mom and Dad. Here's Max and Lilli on a small one:


We tried to calm them down long enough to eat, but that proved challenging:


We also had a chance to meet an old friend from Dobie (Willie) at an old favorite restaurant (Chuy's), who bonded quickly with Max. Max thought his muscles were bigger than Willie's though:


And even though the kids were up WAY past their bedtimes, they still had a good time.



More to come...

Happy New Year!

Here's this year's holiday pic. Sorry if we didn't get one out to you personally. I try to remind myself of this pic when the begin screaming at each other.

My Extended Absence

Well, we've had a very busy time since I last posted in October. I had my criminology conference in November in Toronto, and we spent Thanksgiving in Texas with Stephen's family. We were also lucky enough to visit some old friends (OK, many old friends) in Texas, both Dallas and Austin.

In December, we drove to New Jersey to see Chris's family, then back home again the day after Christmas to celebrate Chanukah with Stephen's family. Whew! It was a busy time, but wonderful. Shortly after Chanukah, we had some friends over for the best-college-football-championship-game EVER, and watched TX show USC a thing or two about college ball. Yeeeeeee haaaaaaa!!!

Pics from the past few months will be showing up here soon!