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making toffee with the help of our Christmas-gift candy thermometer (thanks, Cam!) - IMG 6545
final result - IMG 6548
Leslie and Bryan got a little creative with their outfits. - IMG 6550
Laurel also cooked us a table full of excellent snacks. - IMG 6551
Laurel pours herself a well-earned drink after whipping up a fabulous New Year's Eve party two days before she moved out. - IMG 6552
festive! ish. - IMG 6553
Heather and Clare - IMG 6554
Inexplicably, a rousing game of Pass the Pigs got started. - IMG 6562
Clare...examining a pig? - IMG 6566
Jesse and Heather...and, well, it's just not a Laurel-NYE-Party unless someone's making out. - IMG 6570
Bryan appreciates his Texas coozie, another holiday gift--and a word spell check is unfamiliar with. - IMG 6571
Bryan murders the last of the bush to clear a space for our future dream vegetable garden. - IMG 6572
Leslie digs up a pile of interesting crap from the previous owner in the tool shed. - IMG 6574
pin from the 1956 Olympics - IMG 6575
OMG he was a Red! - cthulhu_close.jpg
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Sous and Leslie lounge after the meal. - IMG_1010.JPG
Carolyn and her faithful companion and treat-taker Sous. - IMG_1015.JPG
The west Texas dream: fields of windmills over fields of cotton. - IMG_1019.JPG
What Sous does for 15 out of the 16 hours we drive on Saturday. - IMG_1024.JPG
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A desert storm in New Mexico. - IMG_1034.JPG
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We make it from Dallas to Blythe, CA in one day. This theoretically leaves only 600 of 1800 miles total left to drive. - IMG_1041.JPG
So, we decide to make a quick side trip through Joshua Tree. - IMG_1042.JPG
National Park #4, Joshua Tree. - IMG_1045.JPG