27 days until Christmas

So we’ve started some holiday adventures. We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Day weekend – very quiet and simple – a much needed theme for our family right now. We missed our New Jersey, Utah, and Washington peeps very much, but enjoyed spending time with new friends and neighbors.

We shared our meal with a new faculty member in the dance department and her husband (who is from Burkina Faso in West Africa) and their adorable 15 month old daughter. eaw didn’t eat much, but he discovered fudge (he’s gonna love Aunt Carolyn this year). The following morning brought the first (very light) snowfall of the year so eaw and I set up a few holiday villages, decorations and stockings to get the holiday season started. On Saturday evening, we took Hathaway and eaw to the zoo to see the lights and even take a gander at Santa Claus himself. There were real live reindeer – and eaw got to touch an antler. Later Hathaway’s mom joined us at home and we were greatly entertained by the antics of two adorable friends.

A side note – eaw is wearing big boy pants and has stayed dry/clean for three days in a row! Granted he chose to celebrate by wearing his big boy pants on his head, but still – we are very proud of him.

Oh, and besides the quiet weekend, we painted our bedroom – “Lunar Eclipse” and mtw updated the electrical in the basement, filled in a cement floor, and made short work of cleaning the house. It’s coming along, for any potential visitors!

Boys and their toys

A sweet moment between my boys, bonding over technology…

Samantha...

…just because we haven’t posted about her in a while. She is doing well – still adjusting to being an only dog. She had her teeth cleaned last week at the vet and recovered without incident. Now we just have to create a new habit to brush her teeth daily. She is as spirited and spunky as ever, although a romp at the park goes a lot further these days.

Performance Weekend

mdw performed this weekend in the OSU Department of Dance’s Resident and Visiting Artist concert. She performed an original solo that she choreographed with original music by mtw, entitled “George Lassos the Moon” for which Frank Capra’s use of shifting symbolism in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” served as a frame, although the true content/muse of the piece was her brother ghd3. The piece was very successful and received much positive and strong feedback. A review was published in the Columbus Dispatch calling it “one of the strongest works on the program is a solo choreographed and performed by Meghan Durham. Love surely is a time-tested theme, but Durham finds a fresh, imaginative approach in George Lassos the Moon.”

Flying Trees and a Mountain of Mulch

We had to remove a beautiful old silver maple from our property. It was rotting from the inside out due to long term suffocation from ivy and was just too large and ominous for our property. It was an amazing tree and I miss its presence – as does eaw. We are planning to plant something new in the spring to honor the tree. It was quite a process to take it down, limb by limb, with a crane. Then, the grinding of the stump left a labyrinth of fresh fantastic mulch. It’s amazing how different our house looks without the tree, and it’s still disorienting to enter the backyard and see it gone. I fear several birds have been permanently displaced.

Beautiful Fall Weather

Thumbs up on the incredible fall weather we've been enjoying– warmer temperatures, sunny days, and lush colors. We took advantage of the weather today and headed to the zoo (a favorite destination chez Wall) with our neighbor and friend, Colby and his mom. Here’s some shots of our cool boys. They are growing up so fast.

monkeys at the zoo


too cool for school

And...we're back!

Like Bob, we've been busy around here - so pull up a chair, and scroll down to catch up on the latest and greatest in the adventures of the Wall family.