January

Herein lies the majority of events in January. Please forgive me if I bore you with all of the pictures! One afternoon, the Morton Maidens ran errands together. This is not an altogether uncommon occurance, however, we decided to take the camera with us.

Shopping for a card.

While shopping, we found some hats! As some of you know, hats are just the sort of things that the Morton Maidens love.

My sophisticated sister.

We visited the Library to pick up some things which we had ordered in.

Our local Library is one of the historical buildings in our town. It is situated on the old fort grounds of where our town started, during the war of 1812.

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Mumsie and I taking a stroll down to Grandma's house

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Getting ready to say farewell to our much-loved cousins. As you can tell, this was fairly early in the morning, so we are all rather sleepy-eyed!

Later that morning, our cousin helped us cut up vegtables for dinner. She was a blessing as we also had food to make for the next day!

Cleaning up after a scrumptious dinner which Meg and Kate made (along with the help which is mentioned above). Vegetable soup with panini sandwiches...yummy!

Our Uncle being, well, our uncle.

Meanwhile, we played a game where someone says a word and the person next to them says what they immediatly think of, and the next person says what they immediatly think of, etc. It is very fun and can become very interesting!

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An evening in which we visit our Aunt and Uncles' house for dinner.

Kate, the puppy dog, and Auntie with the funny eyes!

Our cousin loves to "fly".

Flying

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Celebrating our Uncle's birthday at his favorite downtown restaurant.

The birthday boy and his wife.

The group of celebraters.

Grandpa, Grandson, Son.

Meg-"Eww! What is in my water?"

Uncle-"Oh, sorry, I forgot to tell you, I swapped cups with you."

(not really)

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This month we also had the joy of giving a surpirse birthday party for our Grandma!

Anxiously waiting in the basement to go upstairs and surprise Grandma!

"Happy birthday dear Grandma..."

"...Happy birthday to you!"

*Note: our little cousin was attempting to help Grandma blow out the candles but in the meantime almost took a bite of the cake:)!!

After the candles were blown out and pictures were taken...

Balloons went flying everywhere!

Static!

Never a dull moment around here!!!!

Uncle being cool in his hat...............

While this little guy is being silly in his "hat", which was a bucket!

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Kate and I had the pleasure of babysitting for our cousins and friends one night.

Cutie pies!

Two sweet helpers to Kate and I. They were such a blessing!

More sweeties.

Kate making dinner.

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We also had the joy of hosting a friend for a weekend.

In which W. entertains our cousin

More mirrror pictures!

Meanwhile Kate and "the boys" play a bowling game.

Again, flying!

Enjoying the instantaneous viewing capablities of digital cameras!

Breakfast before our guest had to leave :(

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A few miscellaneous pictures.

Daddy's bib.

Sweet Meg.

Someone is tired!

And here she is... The Flying Baby!

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Family portraits

Kate and I with a cousin

Grandma with some of her cousins.

Daddy with his Mom and siblings

Having a good laugh!

Grandma with her children and their spouses (one Uncle missing).

The Grandchildren.

I leave you with this picture of the Morton family.

~S~