Luke's first visit with Father Christmas

Luke met Father Christmas for the first time tonight... we werent sure what to expect but he had a smile on his face and whispered to Jen Santa.. when he entered the room.

Not that the photo shows it with that who the heck are you look on his face..

Local Christmas Pageant

We wandered down to the local Xmas Pageant as Josh's Boy Scout unit was in the Parade this year. Thought it was a great little Parade put on by the local community and had that good old country feel about it.

The local Volunteer Fire Depts from various Towns, the local Police Dept, High Schools, Boy Scouts, Girls Guides, Football team, ROTC, Special Olympic athletes and various floats made their way around the local shopping centre here.

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What's in store for Winter this year ?

Day time temps are starting to drop out there and we're experiencing a cold snap at the moment. Temperature here didnt get above zero all day and the current temp at the moment is -1C.

Was talking to a fella the other week who mentioned the Farmers Almanac predicted a colder than normal winter this year and sure does feel like it's come early at the moment.

Here's a video of our local weather guy and what he reckons is in store for us this year.

Thanksgiving - '08

This year we went over to Jen's sister Rondi's home to celebrate Thanksgiving. We spent the day with her partner Anthony, daughter Alleigh and her brother Chad.

It was a great afternoon with good company, relaxed with plenty of good food so much so we were back there the next day to help eat what was left over.

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Halloween 2008

Our Second Halloween here in the U.S. and it was a great night. Luke's second and although not really sure what was going on other than he knew there was a lot of 'candy' coming his way.


First visit was to 'Nan & Pop's place' and had a great time over there.

Luke in his Superman costume.

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Chelsea's Birthday

Chelsea turned Eighteen today and we attended her 'surprise' birthday party.

It was a hot & humid day, great day for a pool party and BBQ.

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Patuxent Naval Air Museum

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Wizards versus Memphis

Arlington War Memorial

Baltimore

Snow fight....

Whilst visiting, we experienced a small snow fall enough to get out there and enjoy a snow fight.

James loading up !

Uh oh !

Two can play at this !

Run !

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The Big Gulp - Seven Eleven

Lachlan & James first visit to the U.S.

Lachlan & James arrived just after New Years Eve in January. It was their first time on a aeroplane and out of Australia.

They made their way across via Sydney, Honolulu, Los Angeles then across to Dulles International Airport.

All in all about a 32 hour trip taking into account lay-overs along the way.

It was great to see them after having left Adelaide back in June and was amazed how tall they were during that short period of time.

They left Adelaide in the high 30's and arrived to a brisk 4C which wasnt to bad for this time of year.

They left Adelaide in the high 30's and on arrival was about 4C that morning and was a taste of how cold it can get here