Friday, September 5, 2014

Ann and Deb's wedding!

William and Jonas throw down in a pizza-eating contest in Hamilton on Saturday night.  


The next day, ready for the ceremony in their yarmulkes.

Deb's niece and nephew, the Grand Marshals of the wedding, make their entrance.

Deb comes in with her parents.

Blurry but happy Deb!

Blurry but happy Ann comes in with her dad!  

It was about a minute after the last picture that William had to be escorted out (by Donald) for loudly requesting/demanding that Ann's friends who played the guitar and sang during the brides' entrances "Play diff'ent song! Play other song!"  (The musical portion was over.  This request was going nowhere.)


Collecting pine cones during the ceremony.  What fun Daddy must have had!

William wants to show off a little skin during the cocktail hour.

William is ready to party!  Pants got rolled up a little extra after his attempts to ruin them as much as possible during forced-absence-from-the-ceremony time.  

Claiming this land for Spain?

My attempt to get a father-son picture during the cocktail hour.

There was a lot of this sort of maneuver throughout the evening.


Between two worlds, a man chooses his own destiny.  Dance floor?  Or adult conversation?

He went with the dance floor option.  The kids took over the dance floor early and without music.

William was entranced by both the little girl in red and the big girl in pink.  

He also had a moment with the girl in the adorable yellow galoshes.


Ready for his salad.

Roommates' picture (with bonus Esperanza)!

Esperanza showing off her wedding finery.  Too bad we didn't get Mateo (whom William called "Potato") in this shot, as I don't think I got a single picture of him or Mazie from the whole trip!  Oops!


Checking out the ring.

Jessica and Lizzy
(Most of the rest of these pictures are Jessica's now.)


Family picture!  Something I never remember to take, so thanks to Jessica for getting this one!

Mike, Sarah, and Charlie

Me with Ann and Jessica (and Rich!)


William dances with Mama and her friends after dinner.

Rich and Sarah


Ann and Jessica, probably after we had left--William partied himself silly that night!


William says goodbye to the mascot of our White Eagle Conference Center digs the next morning, as we head out for Ft. Drum.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

A Whirlwind Visit to Scranton


Checking into the hotel and engaging in tomfoolery while waiting for Daddy to finish a work call so we could head to dinner with Aunt Anne and Tom (an event I failed to capture on film, of course).

Bookuhs with Daddy.



Probably the part where the rabbit is skating with elephants on raspberry jam.  He likes that part.

Still passed out when a starving Mama headed down for breakfast the next morning. (Not pictured: Daddy looking similarly zonked, though not as much like a bumble bee.)

William's shenanigans during the second breakfast shift with Daddy.  He sat backwards through the chair in the lobby and claimed to be a monkey while eating his breakfast.

This was the face he made when Donald asked him to stop.


Walking up to the "charlie train" for the "charlie ride".  I don't know why the "tr" in trolley is so much harder to pronounce than the "tr" in train, but it is amusing.


Ready to go!

The trolley started moving, and he had this expression on his face for a few solid minutes, I think.




SO HAPPY to be on this trolley ride finally!

The view on our ride.

Checking out the scenery.


Checking out the view inside the mile-long tunnel!


Checkin out the new baseball stadium (and asking to go in and see a game that was not taking place).




A rare picture with Mama!


The tunnel on the way back!

A picture with Daddy smiling and opening his eyes! A rare bird, indeed!


Off the trolley and overwhelmed by all the other trains around!

Watching a train depart.

Playing in the awesome kids' room at the Trolley Museum.

Driving Daddy around in the trolley.


Learning how to make the miniature trolley drive around from Aunt Noreen.

Success!

Building a nontraditional "train".


Ringing in all the passengers on the fare register.

Anthracite Breaker Boys, ca. 1905
(This is the best one of this series, although I'll post the ones with Carl and Nancy at the bottom--I hadn't figured out I needed to turn off the flash yet in those.)


Getting to know Nancy's statues.


Murphy shares his toys, and the boys get reacquainted.

Noreen joins in the fun.

Caroline wants to play!


The little guys pose with Caroline and Matt.

Awwww, William and Murph.


The next morning, he opted for a different position, but the same bumble suit.


Trying out some of cousin Matt's sports gear.


Nancy and Andrea join the Anthracite Breaker Boys

William and Carl.


Another one with William and Daddy for good measure.