Christmas 2010

Surprisingly, Walter let us sleep until 7.30!




What Santa had to haul inside.






Something for all of the Burke boys.




How to give me a never fail Xmas present? Give me coffee!


Byron's big present. It took him a bit to get it unwrapped!


Somehow he ended up with a bow on his butt.


Unwrapping his big present.


And unwrapping...


Sheesh, what'd you do, wrap this with rope and duct tape?


I think that we got the right one!




Byron at the Rock 'Em Spock 'Em Robots helm.


It lets him take out a bit of extra aggression!


Walter's big present, a red dragon!






This fight is scheduled for ten rounds with special guest referee, Takanuva!


All aboard Mr. potato Head's cruise ship/aircraft carrier!


The book and DVD haul.
As M said, this has probably been the best Xmas thus far!

Trimming The Tree

I swear that I haven't looked in the closets!






Our little artificial tree that has done its duty for maybe four years now, complete with the first tin foil star that I made with M on our first Xmas together in '03.

Its Beginning To Look A Bit Like Xmas

Thanksgiving 2010!

The now famous Hubbard squash pie. Looks like pumpkin, tastes better than pumpkin!


Alongside it all, of course, there was the chicken wing dip!








Thanksgiving was a good day in the Burke household. One of the best things about it was finally the truce drawn up and honored by the brothers Burke who decided to share Legos and play together peacefully.


Tom Turkey 2010.


M's great abstract portrait of Tom.


Then the fat guy carved the turkey.










Later on in the night, the boys took a canoe ride in the blue laundry basket "boat." The strainer and the tupperware were "fish nets" but somehow they found themselves as masks...










The night ended as we constructed a great monument to Thanksgiving 2010 reaching to the sky. Unfortunately, it didn't last.