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Monday

 A visit with the McKees in Louisville.  On to the optometrist in Longmont to pick up Judy’s new glasses.  A stop at the grocery store.  A quick look in a pond north of Longmont for a Barrow’s Goldeneye.  Drive back to Chatfield.  Unhook the motorhome, hook up the Jeep, and we were on the road by 3:30.  Stopped for the night south of Colorado Springs at 5:00. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205131835882428706345.0004eac8c9eefa867949b&msa=0&ll=36.421282,-102.392578&spn=13.070765,26.784668 Forecast low for us tonight, 33 degrees.  We’re ahead of the arctic front.  We’re set up for a good day south into New Mexico tomorrow. 
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A strategic withdrawl

 We hung out with our kids.  We were here for the baby’s birth.  We stayed for two Thanksgiving Dinners.  We were going to stay for another week and go to the Taylor, Roth and Company Christmas Dinner, but there are sub-zero temperatures in the forecast.  Sorry to miss the dinner, but we’re going to beat a hasty retreat south ahead of the front.  With any luck we’ll get wrapped up here and get started south by Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.  
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Thanksgiving at Becky and Brian’s

 Yesterday (Saturday). Our entire branch of the Taylor Clan. The guys.  The gals. Carving the turkey. The dinner.(All that champagne is actually sparkling cider for the kids.) The hosts. Brian and Arie. Taylor and Arie. Tony and Arie. Arie. Arie awake!We think she’s losing that newborn look already. Rags the Cat.  It was a delight visiting with everyone, especially the two older kids who have been away.  Taylor was so excited about her human osteology class, she could barely even tell us about it.  She has an almost complete skeleton from a turn of the century unauthorized cemetery at a Colorado Insane Asylum.  It’s a really interesting set of bones because they’re so distinctive.  She has a very large man with lots of broken bones and signs of wear to provide clues about how old he was, how tall he was, whether he was right or left handed, if he walked normally or with a limp, and all the things that happened to him in his life. The quote of the day however, goes to Tony.  Home from college, at one point (apparently) wandering aimlessly around the house, he was asked to help with something.  He responded that he was busy. “Busy?  Busy with what?” “I’m practicing thinking in Swedish.” You just never know what to expect… 
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Breaking out the bassinette

   …the bassinet given to my parents by my Dad’s parents in 1937 in celebration of my oldest brother’s birth.  It gets passed from family to family and generation to generation.  We keep a list of all the kids since then and have now added Arie’s name to it; number 31. 

1 William Henry Taylor III Son of William, Jr. and Margaret Elizabeth (Waldron) Taylor September 3, 1937
2 Thomas Richard Taylor Son of William, Jr. and Margaret Elizabeth (Waldron) Taylor February 27, 1941
3 David Alan Taylor Son of William, Jr. and Margaret Elizabeth (Waldron) Taylor September 2, 1943
4 Stephen Paul Taylor Son of William, Jr. and Margaret Elizabeth (Waldron) Taylor December 19, 1945
5 William Henry Taylor IV Son of William III and Diann Clar (Mitchell) Taylor April 20, 1959
6 Jon Mitchell Taylor Son of William III and Diann Clar (Mitchell) April 3, 1961
7 Christie Lee Taylor Daughter of Thomas and Marian Ruth (Ament) Taylor September 19, 1966
8 Rebecca Lynn Taylor Daughter of Stephen and Judith Lynn (Shockley) Taylor June 13, 1969
9 Matthew Alexander Taylor Son of Stephen and Judith Lynn (Shockley) Taylor August 14, 1972
10 Michael David Taylor Son of David and Paula Sue (Waldo) Taylor December 11, 1972
11 Suzanne Alane Taylor Daughter of Thomas and Kathryn Alane (Free) Taylor September 12, 1974
12 Jacob Andrew Taylor Son of David and Paula Sue (Waldo) Taylor November 4, 1974
13 Elisa Margaret Taylor Daughter of William III and Patricia Carol (Caesar) Taylor September 21, 1981
14 Kyndal Justine Taylor Daughter of Jon and Amy Beth (DeLay) Taylor September 21, 1986
15 Jake Terrance Taylor Son of Jon and Amy Beth (DeLay) Taylor June 5, 1989
16 Cody Mitchell Taylor Son of Jon and Amy Beth (DeLay) Taylor July 26, 1991
       
17 Ivy Jackson Taylor Daughter of William IV and Joan Sally (Jackson) Taylor October 1, 1992
18 Taylor Marie Alexander Daughter of Brian James and Rebecca Lynn (Taylor) Alexander (Taylor) Alexander August 2, 1993
19 Kyle Bradley Aitken Son of Kenneth James and Christie Lee (Taylor) Aitken April 25, 1997
20 Anthony James Alexander Son of Brian James and Rebecca Lynn (Taylor) Alexander May 6, 1997
21 Cameron Christopher Aitken Son of Kenneth James and Christie Lee (Taylor) Aitken January 18, 1999
22 Jack Michael Taylor Son of Michael and Katie Elizabeth (Ostrander) Taylor August 24, 2000
23 Teigan Reanne Alexander Daughter of Brian James and Rebecca Lynn (Taylor) Alexander July 22, 2001
24 Allison Elizabeth Taylor Daughter of Michael and Katie Elizabeth (Ostrander) Taylor November 4, 2002
25 Alexander Paul Taylor Son of Matthew and Kari Lynn (Taylor) Taylor July 9, 2003
26 Conner Thomas Alexander Son of Brian James and Rebecca Lynn (Taylor) Alexander July 6, 2004
27 Aeryn Nahri Taylor Daughter of Jacob Andrew and Yousun (Kim) Taylor September 2, 2004
28 Natalie Bernice Taylor Daughter of Michael and Katie Elizabeth (Ostrander) Taylor July 27, 2005
29 Austin Lynn Taylor Son of Matthew and Kari Lynn (Taylor) Taylor March 26, 2007
30 Austin Jacob Taylor Son of Jacob Andrew and Yousun (Kim) Taylor September 12, 2008
31 Arie Paige Taylor Son of Matthew and Lindsay Paige (Seim) Taylor November 18, 2013

 It still works just fine.  

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Thanksgiving

 …at Matt and Lindsay’s house. Even though we’re going to do Thanksgiving again up at Brian and Becky’s house on Saturday, we didn’t pace ourselves. We ate it all.