Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year! The celebrations have been delightfully merged this year as we enjoyed a very special Thanksgiving in Virginia this year that included a wonderful feast as always, and also a visit to a Christmas Tree farm that happened to be located providentially close to a winery. After decorating a beautiful tree we opened presents early, since we are in England this year for Christmas.



Mary Alice skipped right past these Charlie Brown trees and explored this gorgeous mountain side very thoroughly and after finding the perfect tree, she single-handedly dragged it back to base camp with astonishing ease.



Meanwhile Nate and Emma engaged in an intense competition to see who could roll the furthest down the mountain without their parents intervening.

While in Virginia, we also enjoyed a walk along Burke Lake ... here are a few photos that I liked.







One day before flying to England, I dropped Emma off to school and then prepared to do the same with Harrison. I soon realized that a few of his classmates were potentially contagious with a variety of nasty sicknesses and since I had the day off, I quickly decided that we would have a day playing together. We started off by building a train track in his bedroom, and then we headed out to look at the new Baish landholding in Tidal Walk (we are very excited about this new development).

Here is a view of Tidal Walks' access to the Intracoastal waterway


Here is the Baish lot, with the water just visible in the background



Here is a better view of the water, which Harrison managed to sit down in when his boots got stuck in the sand.