Christmas With Memere & Papa King

 What a wonderful trip up on Saturday evening into Monday.

King of the rock

Time to slide

Launching the Smart Bird feeder.

Shoot some hoops

Look at all these snowmen!

Dave's Wood Splitting Photo. :) 

Gingerbread men

 My eleves made some gingerbread cookies today. 😋

Time for frosting.

First Freshman Game

 It was quite a loss, but Jeremiah did SO great! Made 2 3's, 2 regular buckets, drove to the hoop, even with behind the back dribble, good passing.  It was so great to watch. ♥️ Go #30!!

Rebound

Out of bounds pass in

That's a 3!!! 

And Point Guard.

Go Vikings!

MIT tour

 Wow, what a surprisingly large campus....and buildings. Go Boston.

Jeremiah grades

 First trimester of freshman year of high school.

Wahoo!

AND our Tree is UP

Tuesday - first snow

Adley and Jeremiah made the first snowmen of the season. ♥️

Adley made the short one first.  Jeremiah was inspired by Adley's and went out to make his own.

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving EVE

My sweet turkeys made some pilgrim hats for tomorrow. Yum yum.

Thanksgiving!

Football and PIE! 

Decorate the Church for Christmas

 These guys were excited to skip school (Jeremiah), enjoy pizza lunch, and decorate the church for Christmas. It's was so great to have them for the tall bits. :)

Happy 90th Birthday Party Grammy!

 More Pics to follow. 

At the Cow Palace

Nathanael's Doctor Appointment

 This guy is still growing. :)

Nathanael is 6' 2 1/4" (just so I can say he grew 1/4" from last year._) Adley and Nathanael were both the same height at their 17 year appointment.

Nathanael is 181 lbs. (he grew 20lbs.)  Adley was 173 lbs. at his 17 year appointment.

Advanced Manufacturing

 Jeremiah is having a great week in Advance Manufacturing.  Now we have 3 hammers in the house.

Carpentry

 Jeremiah enjoyed his week in carpentry, and has a nice little chair.

Jeremiah Doctor Time

 This guy had a very healthy physical. He's growing and growing.

Jeremiah is 5' 11" in the 97th percentile - and grew 3 inches this year. (Adley & Nathanael were 5' 10" at their 14 year old checkup.)

Jeremiah is 140lbs in the 60th percentile and grew 6 lbs this year. (Adley was 135 lbs - BUT Nathanael was 154 lbs - first time a brother has beaten Jeremiah in a 'measure'.)

Pumpkin time!

 

Carving time!

Adley is the big smile, Nathanael is the spooky middle, and Jeremiah the fun ghost.

Fun weekend!

 Adley is running media at the camp Monadnock women's retreat this weekend.  He's getting everyone mic'ed up and running the sound booth.  Liz Parsons is the key note speaker, and Ethan and Isaac came to see their buddies too.  Adley is having a good weekend.

Nathanael toured UMass Lowell - North campus for engineering!! (WPI is his favorite, with Ulowell 2nd place.)

Jeremiah had a big finals cross country meet.  He got 24:23....beat his PR by 2 minutes.  He has one more special meet this Tuesday.

All the fun. 

Homecoming Dance: a Night Under the Stars.

 First high school dance for this guy.  Everyone was going fancy tonight.

Wentworth Institute of Technology - Boston

 

Here's Nathanael near the mascot - a Leopard. Nathanael LOVED being in Boston - but WPI is still his favorite choice.

Jeremiah 1st Home Cross Country Meet

 Let's Go Vikings!

Here's the Team - with their team chant!

Look at all those Kids. 2 teams!

Jeremiah for the finish #26 27:05...wahoo!

Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race

 WOW - what an event this is.  People build crazy contraptions - powered by peddling. they close down the streets of downtown Lowell.  The race is through the streets - a mud pit - and part of the Merrimack river. We went to watch the water portion - but next year maybe Nathanael will get some engineering buddies together to have some fun. or they will bike with the race (just behind the entries).  https://www.lowellkinetic.com

Just a few snaps.

This bottom photo 'stampede' were in first place - but the water portion did a number on their vehicle. They do get some time to 'repair'.

:)

Fun day Canobie Lake Park

 We got tickets to the amusement park with some church friends on Saturday.  Had a wonderful time!

2 of our guys

2 of our guys back row

WPI 1st college tour

 

What a great tour 

So fun to be back at our school! 2001! 

First day of senior year!

Enjoy Nathanael!

First Day of High School

 Here we go!  This Freshman is ready for his day.

(It's very serious. :) )

Jeremiah is the same height as Dave.