Chili's - Atlanta airport

Family hike

Being in the Appalachian mountains was like br'er rabbit in the briar patch for me (despite being so many states from PA), but the kids had never seen such sights and so many trees. They felt too "closed in".

I didn't get pictures of it, but the kids collected acorns, aka "Squirrel nuts" per Joacob, a novelty they'd only read about. The boys pants were sagging with pockets full and Nectaria's shirt was pregnant with them.

Three generations of Joneses

Georgia is in a "drought" or so they say. They're rain deficit is more than twice what we get annually.

Grandma & Katya

Jacob

Nectaria

Gonzales family reunion, GA

Greatgrandma Dot celebrated her 80th birthday and the Jones/Hanning clan (6 adults, 4 children, 2 lap babies) took two flights and a three hour drive to join her in the southern edges of the Appalachian mountains.

The kids had never been on a escalator, let alone a plane (yes, there are no escalators in western CO), but they were so well behaved, there was not one flight attendant who didn't comment on it.

view from great grandma's

We were walking out the door when I requested this picture, everyone had the squirmies, but at least I go them all

Ben, Joachim, Elena

Katerina waits while we collect three car seats and get rental cars.

Elephant's Halloween

We received this costume in a hand me down bag and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We went trick or treating with the cousins, but since houses are so far apart here we visited only four houses before he was done. Oh well, maybe there will be other kids for the costume in future years.Jacob, Joachim, Katya, Nectaria, Justin

And... here is our new house, it has what the realtor called "sweat equity". When we first looked at it the grass was completely brown, a little rain did wonders. We hope to make it habitable in the next 4 month or so. It's a very cute house with hard wood floors and a huge backyard. I can't wait for all of my friends to come pouring to Delta and visit us in the spring.