A couple of months ago, Elaine started working on her brothers. The goal? Gather all of the Haworth side of the family together around Christmas. After much e-mailing and phone calling, we’re here in a rented home near Lake Shasta, California, with Elaine’s parents, brother Noel and family, with brother Loren and family on the way as I type.
The sets of cousins that are here have had a great time. The water level of the lake is way, way down, and today we found an old, pre-Shasta Lake bridge that’s usually underneath 80 feet of water. Took this picture with the cousins on it:
The rest of the time has been spent playing cards:
Using three laptops and the rented house’s desktop to play group webkinz:
Putting together puzzles:
And checkers:
I’m still liking the camera a lot. 
Several of the above shots were taken with some of Noel’s lenses, which are amazing and shockingly outside of my price range. 
But this last one was with the eBay telephoto zoom, and I love it:
So close, and yet still so far…
Nice pictures. Chris bought us a camera with his birthday money from my family. It’s so fun to have the digital to shoot until you get the right shot!
Happy New Year!