Jake's birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
We celebrated Jake's birthday going to Hibachi steak house and he ate shrimp, scallops and lobster tail! We all had a good time and he got to open his gifts and sing over his aquarium cake, fishes included.

Adult night out

Friday night Bill and I were able to go out for the night and have a nice dinner with 5 other couples. Bill's friends wanted to get together and celebrate the holiday's. We had a great dinner and a wonderful time with friends.

Reindeer need food too!

Chloe and I made sure to put out the reindeer food so they can keep up thier energy!

Some more christmas pics

We had an early morning the kids were up at 5:00 BUT they were not allowed to wake us up till 7:00. So at 6:53 they walked in the room ready to tear down the steps. They all teared thru thier gifts till they got the the little red one. Which was the WII they all were very excited. one they relized they recevied it.

Christmas EVE

On the night before Christmas the Family all gets together and have a great time. Here are some of the pics!

Visit from Gram

Sunday , We had a nice little lunch with Gram and Frank. And no water since a pipe burst around the corner. But we were able to enjoy ourselves. I learned how to make deviled eggs and we exchanged gifts. Tiffany loved her new webkins! and Bill loved his new wine. And i got a great new griddle. It was great

Some Pictures

Winter concert

Tiffany had her winter concert and did great! Gram, uncle Chris, and Aunt Jenna and Nate were able to enjoy the show.

The Holiday season

SO we are getting ready for the holiday season, making sure that everyone has there stocking hung for Santa to leave them a treat. The tree looks great with each of our ornament's coming together to from a tree that has a Little of the old from everyone and some of the new ones that we all have contributes to our tree. Now as long as the kids, dog, and cat do not knock it over again we should be good to go for Santa. Merry Christmas

A call to everyone who can cook better then I

This is a call for everyone who can cook better then I to please make a meal that is able to be frozen dinners. I am thinking mostly after i have the surgery since i will be out of commison for a bit. Thanks!

the new kitchen well Part of it........

We have slowly be re-doing the kitchen and we are almost. The floor is done and the painting, we have also added a pantry to the kitchen which helps alot. The big appliances are coming soon. We already brought home the dishwasher. Here are some pictures.

The allure of the leaves.......

The kids and the allure of the leaves. The kids love it jumping in it, throwing it, and rolling in it as my floors through out my house show the proff!!

Our little get together

We got together and a turkey dinner. Everyone brought a dish to our dinner and it went great! The kids did a good job helping to clean up. We set the tables and put our home made turkeys all around so everyone could admire them. Then Tiffany did a great job with the younger ones with thier home made pine cone decorations. We even had the fire pit going out side for some warmth on this fall day, as the kids had fun rolling around in the leaves! I just want to say I am thankful for my Family they really do me the world to me and it is great when I can spend time with my two brothers!

Turkey Day 2007

Happy Turkey day !

We had a very nice dinner at Bill's Parent's house. The kids got to watch a movie and the adults had a few moments to talk. We eve had our pine cone turkeys which the kids had a great time making.

Tiffany's Report card

The first report card came in and it is meritorious all A's and B's. Also she received Personal best award for the month of November. She is doing great so far. The rest of the kids will be getting thiers soon!

The Special Talent!

Just to show Off Tiffany's Special Talent! She is able to move her one eye independently of the other. And able to curl her tounge we will have to save that for later date.

Holly's Wedding

So, the wedding went off with no really problems. we were fasinably late to the church but hey it can not start till the bride gets there! Tiffany did a wonderful job on her reading it took alot for such a young girl but she did great. Holly looked amazing in her dress and also Kenny looked great in his suit. Congrats to Holly and Ken!

Poppie and the TWINS?

pop and the grandkids.

Is poppie feeling the

twins kicking?

Before the baby came we visited

It was good to see chris and jenna were practicing before the new baby arrived! The bouncing baby boy that he is gave mom and dad a run for the money that is for sure!

Some pictures of the new one

He is doing good he is home now. Just working on getting all better but overall doing good. He has a very nice head of hair and some very long fingers! The darker version of Milo!

the new addiation

We have the new family member "Nate dog" 9 lbs and 13oz 21 inchs long November 6,2007

The real owners of our house

Maria claims anything she lands on
freddie ready for any battle!

Just a few pictures Tiff and I have been taken of the animals that you can really see thier personalities!

Halloween Night

Tiffany had a good Halloween night. A little over 200 peices of candy! Got to love this holiday. Now all i need to do is find some one to unload most of it off too.

20 days till the wedding

Holly getting ready to get married enjoyed one last night of saturday night fun.

Our pumpkins

Friday we picked our pumpkins in the pouring rain and picked put patterns. With the dinning room table covered in plastic the fun began. Four pumpkins degutted. And patterns carved in to them. All of them worked really hard on thier pumpkins. With alittle help from Bill and I we finished them in about 3 hours. And ended up with 4 great pumpkins and about a pound of cooked pumpkins seeds! {The best part} And had alittle fun making Jiffy pop popcorn on the stove.