so this past weekend we made our third trip to Ohio in as many months - (we keep vowing to end our travel habits as Maggie has been on 5 big trips in her first 4 months) this time primarily for my cousin's wedding - it was also the only weekend in the near future that my sibs were going to be in one place so we went ahead and held the "Wenger family Christmas", sandwiched in a few hours on Sunday morning, between a busy wedding weekend where our quartet sang (after not singing for months and months) and Dawn leaving for Canada. hurray for the little family time that we have now . . . but at least we have it, and our family is as good as the next. a few pics from the weekend and this week:



on the way home Olivia made me stop and photograph this post-election sign specifically for Jen & Darren

Mom and Maggie happily reunited.

Lyric gets to eat pop tarts for breakfast for the first time since we left Ohio (Mom needs to adjust the toaster)

as per Marty tradition, he immediately wears as many of his Christmas gifts as possible - this time his sweater, shirt and pants strikingly remind us of L. L. Bean and he grabs a piece of wood to complete the image.

Olivia reads her two daughters a bed-time story while Dad exercises Dylan - eventually we'll get 'em all tucked in.