Happy Birthday Tommy!

A swingset!  Built by the fabulous Travis Sorensen and Tom Rose.

Many thanks to Grandma Barbara and Aunt Laura for helping to watch Kaya over the last week.  Kaya and Grandma had a great time!

Laura, however, spent her week getting to know North Carolina intestinal illnesses.  Thank you daycare!

Carry them around in bags!

Travis is the best (pseudo) uncle ever!  Thanks for Kaya’s new airplane – hold on tight!

We had a feast for Thanksgiving with all the usual nosh.  Our first extended family-less Thanksgiving (thanks to the UNC heme/onc department) was actually quite nice.  Travis and Tommy cooked all day and then a bunch of the other first year fellows and their significant others came for dinner.  The fried turkey was to die for.  Overall a great day!

The obligatory leaf pile pre-Thanksgiving picture

Kaya may actually be better than me at playing the guitar.  She’s got a little while until she’s better than daddy though.  And too bad she keeps trying to eat the pick.

Thanksgivakkah is coming!

Never mind the predicted plummeting of temperatures overnight – we went camping!