As we have already celebrated Christmas with our Fiala family in Cincinnati during Oktoberfest and also already celebrated Christmas with our Allen family in Seattle over Thanksgiving – we had a little Boston Christmas together here in cold Boston. We enjoyed our day together very much, making overnight coffee cake in the morning before going to church, making a stuffed pork loin for dinner, and baking a few pumpkin pies. It was a lovely day.
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Oct 11
Winterizing Our Basil
We winterized our potted plants. In some cases this meant planting bulbs and wrapping our boxwoods in burlap – in the case of our basil – we made pesto! We used fancy olive oil from France (thanks Shannon!) and our new itty bitty food processor (thanks Grandma Allen!).
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Sep 11
Zinzinnati Oktoberfest
We celebrated Christmas with the Fiala’s a bit early this year. We had Christmas at Oktoberfest in Cincinnati. It was a great time with family and German beers and food and music. We made great memories and loved seeing Thadd‘s place in the city. We got to go to the Great American Ballpark and see the Red‘s play twice. We went on a steamboat ride too! We loved the weiner dog races, as well as the barrel and beer stein races. Jeannette also got to meet up with an old friend from MIT at the festival – it was the place to be! There was fun polka music and we would be remiss to not mention the great festival food again. We had LOTS of strudel, brats with sauerkraut, and cream puffs.
We have video of every wiener dog race heat – they were super cute and funny – but here is just one and also some of the barrel and stein races too.
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Dec 10
Christmas-ing on the Oregon Coast
We missed photographing some of the fun memories of making cookies and putting together puzzles with Grandpa (we were too busy making cookies and putting together puzzles) but here are some of our pictures. You can check out more photos of the fun on Thadd’s blog, or on Shannon and John’s, or on Mr. Allen’s.
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- 1st Seaside Exploration
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- 1st Seaside Exploration
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- Between Seaside & Gearhart
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- Josh
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- Gearhart House
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- Jeannette
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- End of the Oregon Trail
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- 2nd Seaside Exploration
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- Shan & John’s Ritual
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- Shan
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- Seaside Aquarium
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- Wind Sculpted Tree
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- Stacks at Cannon Beach?
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- Stacks at Cannon Beach?
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- Shan & John’s Ritual
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- A bit windy
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- A tad windy
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- A nice lunch spot
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- Brew list
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- Beach Venture
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- Beach Venture
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- Beach Venture
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- Josh on the Beach
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- Josh on the Beach
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- John on the Beach
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- Warming up
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- Astoria
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- View from Astoria Column
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- View from Astoria Column
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- View from Astoria Column
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- View from Astoria Column
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- Astoria Column
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- Astoria Column
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- Goonie’s House
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- Astoria
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- Astoria
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- Astoria
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- Astoria
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Josh headed to the beach
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- Mitzi headed to the beach
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- Josh & the beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- John & the Vuvuzela
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- Mitzi on the beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Baxter on the beach
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- Mitzi on the beach
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- Horn Blowing
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- Baxter Exploring
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- Baxter Exploring
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- Baxter & Beck
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- Gifts
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- Gifts
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- Gifts
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- Organizing the Yankee Swap
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- Gifts
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- Allens
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- Fialas
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- Woohoo!
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- Grandparents Allen & Allen Girls
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Aug 10
Lis & Philip Celebration!
We went to San Francisco to celebrate the marriage of our great friends Philip and Alisa! We had an amazing weekend, saw good friends, did a super fun Anchor Steam brewery tour, and got to spend our last day with Shannu and John! And the wedding itself was gorgeous with a party that was an absolute blast afterward!
