Home for the Holidays

This year we hosted a very intimate Thanksgiving with my BIL and his new wife.

As an occupational default we had a late dinner, and then stayed up till 2am playing Risk. Yours truly won- again!

The table was very simple this year- decorated with things E has picked up on our 'hikes'. Next year we are looking forward to having an entire afternoon of celebration with a filled house again!

Holiday Pictures... have been nothing short of a beast this year, between a tot with too much energy and a camera battery that won't stay charged any longer. Here are some hysterical outtakes from our numerous attempts to get some decent holiday pictures of my boys:

This one obviously did not make the cut.

The lighting didn't work for one; and, is E trying to send me a message?? Ha.
Half the way there.

Ok, pics sooo weren't happening on Take 47!!!
Flustered, yet determined to get some kind of resemblance of normal family pictures, we bought a new camera (our Christmas present to each other), and scheduled yet another picture-taking time.