memories of 2007

To let you all know, I keep adding pictures to this, the pictures appear all shuffled, there is a good chance you have not seen the most updated version (updated 816pm, 12/20/2007)

Update to Sarah

Here is a pic the night of the accident, sorry it took so long to get it up here.. .

















And here is a pic of her On Dec 10






And here is a picture of her and I as of December 14th...

Sarah found out the sidewalk was icy... The Hard way

SO this morning, the bus had just pulled up to our house, and Sarah went running out the door.... Her feet went left, and her upper body had already started to go right... I had warned the kids that it would be icy outside, but she forgot, and now, my beautiful angel has been bitten by the ice...


When we got to school (as I ended up driving her) the teacher had me sit in class with her, while she held a ice pack to her face to control the swelling, Mrs. Bajis (the teacher) asked all of the kids if they had slipped this morning on the ice as they were coming to school, and they all raised there hands... And Sarah made sure to say that she fell too..


I feel so bad for her, it looks like half her face is swollen, I hope she does alright in school today, I felt so guilty leaving her there, but I know Mrs Bajis will take care of her..

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Christmas Time is Coming... OH BOY!!

So the weekend of Thanksgiving the kids started setting up our tree... Through the course of the next week, I slowly got the lights on and we all put up the bulbs... How does our Christmas Room look... :)

Alysha's first Jazz Band Concert

Alysha had her first Jazz Band Concert on December 4, she is sitting in the front row, 2nd from the Right...

Alysha say's Adam (The guy to her right, our left) has been playing sax for a while, and gives her pointers all the time.. .looks like he was checking out her technique... oh boy ;)

At this point they were between songs... waiting patiently...

Sarah's Hair Cut

I must say, Sarah does look nice with her new do...

Walking through Kmart on Sunday

So we were walking through Kmart on Sunday, and who should we come across but good ole St Nick... He gave the kids some candy and posed for a impromtu pic with the kids...

Guess it truely is the season now... LOL

A visit with the Halifax family,

In addition to the other stops I made, I also visited my family at my parents current residence...

This is me with My mom & dad

This is my bother Aaron

This is Aaron & my daughter Alysha

This is My brother John & his girlfriend Jenny

And my sister in Law - Reagan....

Reagan & Aaron's Baby Shower

While in Ohio, we attended Aaron & Reagan's Baby shower. They were very relaxed cosidering the impending birth of Aubrey Lyn....

Reagan had her belly rubbed by many, here is Shauna rubbing the expectant mom's tummy... perhaps Reagan has gas, or perhaps little Aubrey actually kicked for her aunt....

And of course there was lots of present opening, as the expectant couple live in Washington, they received mostly gift cards, however, there was a lot of creativity in the delivery of those gift cards..

It was alot of fun Aaron & Reagan, I wish you both well, and it was wonderful getting to see you again...

A visit with my sister....

This week, I got to go to Ohio and visit with my sister and her family... I didnt take many pictures, but we did have a good time... here is a picture of Libbey being a total ham, and then one of me and my sister....

Cub Scout Camping Trip

As a few of you know, all those Popcorn sales were to earn Tom & his pack access to some exciting activities this year. Well, in addition to the Halloween Party, Tom & Joe got to go on the fall camping trip. They went to the D-Bar-A Cubscout Campground in Dryden Michigan. Here are some pics of their trip.
This is a picture of Pack 1916 and the Pack leaders. Tom is in the front with the yellow coat on. There are 85 boys within Pack 1916, not all of them attended the camping trip.

This is wear Tom & Joe slept.. Tom had top bunk and his dad had the bottom bunk... According to Joe, all the dad's took the bottom bunks... lucky boys.

This is a picture of Tom at the shooting range, dont panic, they were only shooting BB Guns, but they did have a great time...

And this is a picture of Tom's Den, of the six boys that are in the Den, these were the four that attended the camping trip.

Cub Scout Halloween Party

Sarah was Aurora, a beautiful princess, and Tom was Captain Jack Sparrow... I was exceptional proud of his makeup job, took me an hour to do

















Joe was the Devil, though we ran out of time and forgot to put on his horns...





Alysha was the Wicked Witch of the West












Now, here is my honesty, there were pics of me at the time of this party, however due to my surprise for my family, I was unable to show you it at the time...

Thank you to everyone who ordered popcorn

Tom managed to earn a special gift certificate for his total sale's in Popcorn. With what he sold for "show & Sell's" that is where we went to the stores & sold popcorn, his door to door sales, and his actual sales, Tom sold an amazing $1559.00 in product... Good job son, we are proud...

Tom went door to door this weekend selling his popcorn. He sold $334 dollars in product... Not too bad for a couple of hours of walking... To celebrate, I bought the kids pizza. I figured it was the least I could do for them working so hard... Alysha, being a great big sister, walked the route with Tom, as I cruised along in the van. There was no way we were toting all that popcorn in a wagon...