Some wonderful folks

This year IU and the public schools had all of Thanksgiving week off for the holiday. What a nice, extended break. (We always like to draw out holidays and celebrations for longer than a day anyway, so this worked nicely for us...) So one afternoon we got together for afternoon tea with Ryan and Melanie and their three boys. 

They have been some truly wonderful friends these past 3 years, and now they are preparing to move in January to Germany, where Ryan has a fellowship at a university to finish writing his dissertation. It is bittersweet to begin to say good-bye - joyful, because that means that graduation (and finishing dissertations) is getting closer! And sad too, because this chapter of our lives here at IU is coming to an end; we will both be moving on from this place to new homes and occupations (though specifics are still uncertain for both our families).

Gemma and her pals, Elijah and Thomas

zucchini bread

 

Melanie pouring tea; we also had maple pumpkin cheesecake bars

Happy 7-week old Jesse (JRR)

and Timo is 4 weeks old

Ha! We've done this before, haven't we?! This photo below was from 2 years ago at Thanksgiving time when we had tea & pumpkin cheesecake together. Gemma (on left) was almost 3 months old, and Elijah (on right) was 2 months old. And now two years later, we both have newborns again! And only 3 weeks apart! Again!