FIVE!

seal wrestling at the Seattle Aquarium

A great big Happy Birthday to our favorite little dude!
Christopher turns the big 5 today!
We hope you have a day filled with fun.
xoxo
love, Uncle Nathan & Callie

Happy (day after) Thanksgiving

I hope you were all well fed and in good company for Thanksgiving. We had a couple friends over to spend the day preparing and eating the big meal. We got started early; shopping over the week, preparing dessert on Tuesday, making snacks and mushroom gravy Wednesday. We cooked all Thursday, got in a few card games, and settled our full bellies with a little dessert and a showing of Tron. All in all, a very good holiday.

In the past I've given Thanksgiving the backseat to Halloween and Christmas, but it may easily become my favorite holiday. It may be the most relaxed and genuinely holiday of holidays. A feast to celebrate union and gratitude. A day of delicious eats leading into a 4-day weekend.

Nathan and I have been blessed this year. We are very much living the lives we together hoped for, though here and there the vision has changed. It can be easy to take these blessings for granted, yet I still look around with amazement on a near daily basis and wonder how I got here.

I am recently thankful:
-for Nathan's job that brought us to Boston.
-that Nathan likes this job and does it so well.
-that my job secured me work in this new city, a built in support system, and fast new friends.
-for the love and support of family and friends, new and old.
-that we live in an age where moving away doesn't mean leaving people behind.
-for the delicious meal we shared and the reasonable metabolism to enjoy it.
-for puppies, and the hope we'll have one soon.
-for you!

Have a wonderful long weekend.

The feast laid out in our dining room:

turkey, tofurkey, herbed corn, mushroom gravy, rolls, green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes

Nathan's Birthday Weekend

Nathan turned 24 this past Thursday! His mama flew in late Wednesday evening to celebrate with us. Thursday was a beautiful, sunny New England day, so we headed down to the waterfront and finally checked the Aquarium off our to-see list. We took Nathan out to birthday tepanyaki for dinner, and they even surprised him with a birthday gong! I worked through the weekend, but I hear they had a good time traipsing through the city and checking out Boston together. Of course, I only remembered to take photos at the aquarium.

Thanks for celebrating with us, Melinda! Happy 24 years, and a good 25th year, Nathan!