Thanksgiving weekend, 2006

Our second annual Thanksgiving dinner at the Shillings… we can’t believe it’s been a year already! As usual, Cheryl and Molly delivered quite a feast. The next day, we headed to Fairyland in Oakland with some friends to let the kids run off some steam among the crooked houses, slides, and Seven Dwarves.

Mostly, we were too busy eating, drinking, and playing with the kids to record Thursday and Friday in photographs, but a small set can be found here.




Diaz, Jack, and Owen at the Thanksgiving kid’s table



Diaz and Snow White at Fairyland

Family in Phoenix

For a year we’ve talked with Kelly’s family about meeting in the “middle” of the country to facilitate more frequent visits. As it turns out, Phoenix is a lot closer to San Francisco than Pittsburgh, but there’s a lot of Sanders family there, so Arizona is was. We’re thankful that Diaz was on the shorter flight.

Sunsets and scenery in the desert are out-of-control beautiful. I don’t think I’m ready to give up urban living, but the pebble front yards in Arizona could teach something to the white limestone front “yards” of Brooklyn and Queens.

Here’s the whole set.