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2008 PHOTOS & VIDEO
Jan  Miscellaneous
Feb  Fencing, Las Vegas
Mar  Hawaii
Mar  Australia
Apr  Australia
May  New York, NY
June  Storms
July  Summer fun
Aug  CA, Nags Head
Sep  Fall sports
Oct  More fall sports
Nov  Outdoors
Dec  10K, Christmas

November 2008

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November 1, Saturday, 12:01am

Betsi signed up for the New York City Triathlon.  The site opened for registration at 12:01am, we finished registering at 12:10am, and the slots were sold out by 12:23am.  Wow!

November 2, Sunday

Mary, Barbara, Ellen, Betsi and Sue start their team training by walking 5 miles for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.  It's a two day, 39 mile walk on May 2-3, 2009.

November 6, Thursday

Ryan's team, The Defenders, took second place in the championship game and earned silver medals.  They lost by one run, but were excited they made it this far.

Ryan with his coaches.


Ryan gets on base twice while Nanny poses with Ryan.


Jeff had to work late unexpectedly on yet another version of the 2009 budget and missed the entire game.  Grrr.  Betsi tried her best to use the camera, but didn't realize the ISO was set for daytime instead of nighttime photos.


November 7, Friday



We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows over the coals for dinner Friday night.  It's like camping without leaving home. The kids ate the first marshmallow in a smore and then made flaming marshmallow torches.  We'll probably burn more firewood in the fire pit than the fireplace this year.  It should be fun to light the fire during the first snow.


November 8, Saturday



Ainsley helped Jeff rake the leaves in the front yard and then collapsed into them.  The Sycamore tree dropped table plate sized leaves which provided great shade in the summer, but weren't colorful in the fall.

Our neighbor raked a ton of leaves.  We probably had that much, but I split it into two weekends so far.  A few of our tress still has some leaves that will drop during the week.


I took the left photo with the flash and Ryan made two self portraits without the flash while we waited to be seated for dinner.  Betsi and Ainsley were looking at running shoes a few stores away.


November 14-16, Friday-Sunday

Betsi went to Chicago for the weekend to visit her cousin Chris.  They had fun visiting relatives, eating and shopping in the windy city.

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November 22-23, Saturday-Sunday



Ryan and Jeff joined Boy Scout Troop 160 for their annual Webelos recruiting pig roast.  The food was great, the temps fell below freezing, and it was a lot of fun.  See more photos.


November 26, Wednesday

Grandpa and Ryan play the trumpet together.  My request for Flight of the Bumblebee was lost on Ryan, but he now understands it's hard to play.

November 27, Thursday

Betsi finished her first 10K race and averaged a steady 12 minutes per mile.  She never walked.  It was a big relief to finish and another stepping stone toward the New York City Triathlon in July.

It was nice to share Thanksgiving with family.

Ryan wields an axe for the first time helping Grandpa split some firewood.  We later enjoyed the fire pit on the back deck.

November 28, Black Friday

Some electronics stores distributed vouchers as early as 3:00am to people in line to avoid stampedes when the doors opened at 5:00am.  Insane.  We avoided the crowds to visit the Yorktown Battlefield instead.

Hey Ryan!  BOOM!

We joined a ghost tour of Colonial Williamsburg where the hauntings must be current and verifiable.  Betsi peers into a window of the most haunted house.  She looks ghost-like herself.

November 29, Saturday

Ryan tries on some of the clothes as he poses under Thomas Nelson's portrait in the Nelson House in Yorktown.

See more photos from the Thanksgiving trip.


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