Sous-chef Bryce

Today we're making some potato chowder.. and Bryce helped me cut up all the potatoes

Happy Thanksgiving!

Helping Grampa make some pancakes...

Trip to Notre Dame

Dad and I went up to Notre Dame to see the Irish take on Syracuse.. should be an easy win, right? haha.



Well anyway, we had a lot of fun driving up to South Bend, despite the big snow storm that struck northen Indiana the day before the game. So it was COLD when we got there... and we had to bundle up for the game, of course. But it was nice to be back on campus after being away for so long. We hadn't been back there since the 2000 Nebraska game.. another close loss. On second thought, maybe *I'm* the bad luck for the Irish..

Famous (embarrassing) Irish Football Losses I've been present for:
1995 Northwestern
1996 Air Force
1996 Ohio State
2000 Nebraska
2006 USC
2008 Syracuse

I should just stop now..

okay, here are some more pictures from the trip..






"Welcome back to Notre Dame, Baby!" The ushers at ND are the best in the world..

Lucy gets into everything...

She makes a good bookmark...


...and she does a pretty good parrot impression..

Go Irish! Beat Eagles!

Good friends, the Durands came over to watch the ND vs BC game with us..





The Irish lost, 17-0. I don't think we'll be watching any more games with the Durands.

What?

Homework Helper

Finnegan wants to help Aidan with his homework...

Oh, this could become costly...

Turns out, my sister's boyfriend, Eric, has an interesting (and time-consuming and expensive) hobby-- remote control model airplanes! And it really caught the boys' attention this afternoon when we went up to Clarksville for a visit and to watch Eric's flying club's Fly-in.. it was a beautiful day and the boys really got a kick out of seeing all the different kinds of miniaturized planes (though make no mistake, these model planes are not *small*).

here are some pictures and some video..

More of the kittens

We're happy to see that the kittens are getting along...

Go Titans!

Go Titans!
Originally uploaded by sleepydad

Bryce has decided he wants to be a football player.. so today he strapped the (bike knee) pads onto his shoulders, grabbed his helmet (Bryce says thanks again, Jimmy!), and even put on cleats, and we ran out into the back yard for some (tackle!) football..