Barneston tavern

Paul reacts to a bad play by Nebraska.

Stragglers

As with every fellowship, this one, too, must disperse.

Birthday girl

Mamas

Paul's birthday

A triumphant return to Big Indian

Friedrichses

Exploring

Paul and Liz have fun furniture.

Christmas Eve

Siblings dinner. Bernadette and Isaiah subsisted mostly on sweets.

Paul and Liz are fun

Fun with Paul and Liz

Conversations

Paul: "Can I sleep in your room?"

Isaiah: "Um, there's not very much room." Pause. Then, helpfully: "The couch is very nice." 

Bee: I want glasses! 

Liz: No, these are my glasses.

Isaiah: Bernadette, you can have glasses when you're an old woman yourself.

Art!

The kids sure enjoy an opening, especially when there are appetizers.

Essex Steam Train

 Aunt Liz with movie star Bernadette

 Magda and Peter

 Mama

 Isaiah

Isaiah, Uncle Paul and the engine.

Christmas video

The group shots

A very Tascio Christmas

 The big tease: That box from Grandma and Grandpa Friedrichs, which looked so promising, was full of canned goods.

 Bernadette gets a hand opening from Aunt Liz.

 A truck! That's more like what Isaiah was expecting.

Tascio siblings on Christmas morning 2011.

Christmas Eve

 Isaiah plays with Paul, Magda and Peter.

 Tree trimming.

 Making Polish cake.

 Hanging with Uncle Jim.

The Grinch!

Christmas prep

 Christmas music ...

 And trains ...

 And stockings hung with great care about the candy Isaiah helped put in them for all the aunts and uncles.

 Uncle Paul makes creative use of the kielbasa.

 Aunt Liz reads a story.

The cheesecake cools.

Turning 60

 A little Italian lunch at Gino's in Mahopac.

And the cake (we didn't light 60 candles because we didn't want to burn down the house).