So Long 2012 - Hello 2013

Who the heck moves on CHRISTMAS EVE???

Anyway, we took a break from this......

to celebrate Christmas after three days of packing, moving, cleaning, painting, arranging, rearranging,  unpacking, etc....

***************************************************************

Christmas Eve

BEFORE

Christmas Day

AFTER

 

Time to replenish the gift card stash!

 

 

Our Family Christmas Day 2012

 

 

Bill and I Christmas Day 2012

 

 

Although, we worked hard at my parent's new home - there was NO WAY to get a Christmas Tree up and try to cook a turkey in the new kitchen......

We ended up having Christmas dinner and gift exchange on my brother and sister-in-law's house.

Our Family

Me, Mom, Bill, Dad, Kim

(Thumper), David, Jacob, Ryan, Dan

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS

 

Winter Break......Finally!

TWO DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! Here's what has been happening in the Sadler household!

 

Ryan received his Varsity Letter at the Football Awards Night.  The team also gave me a

gift for taking photos over the past four years.

I received a gift certificate to a local photographer.....to take OUR pictures!

 

 

My friend, Carolyn's daughter turned SIX!  She was having a Taylor Swift birthday party and Carolyn asked if I could make a special shirt to match the party theme.

This is what I came up with.  It started as just a plain white t-shirt.

 

Reilly LOVED it! Soooo Cute!!

 

I've been making some "fun" cookies for the holidays

Here are my "Nutter Butter" Reindeer cookies:

 

 

A white fudge dipped Oreo Snowman Cookies:

 

For the student gifts this year - I made these snowman Hershey bar wrappers:

(the larger snowman are pencils for the children with allergies)

 

 

I also made each student a pictures bookmark/ruler:

 

 

This year Ryan's ornament is a "drivers license".  He received his driver's license back in March.  Keeping with tradition, he receives an ornament that memorializes an accomplishment or

interest he had during the previous year.

 

Also, keeping with tradition, I wrapped and stored gifts at my brother's house.  These gifts are only gifts for school, friends, Mom, Dad, Brothers and their families.

THESE GIFTS DO NOT INCLUDE RYAN'S, BILL'S OR MY GIFTS

(those gifts are located in a separate location!)

BIG NEWS - My parents FINALLY closed on their new house two days ago! Movers come TOMORROW - YES CHRISTMAS EVE!  We've been there all weekend moving the smaller items and organizing the kitchen, hooking up the computer, cleaning. etc....... Bill's been painting..... Here's a sneak peek.....more pictures to follow!

 

 

November??!!??!!

WOW - It's been quite a while! Time keeps slipping away! Going faster and faster.....We've just finished the first quarter of school....

 

  Here's what we've been up to in pictures!

 

Mother Appreciation Night - We walked our boys onto the football field and then posed for a pictures! It was a fun evening!  I took pictures of each player with their mom during the dinner and then stayed on the field to take pictures of the game. 

 

 

We celebrated my Dad's 70th Birthday.  We ate at the Crystal Restaurant in Westmont and went back to my parent's house to open gifts and eat cake!

 

 

 

My parents sold their home and are moving...at least that's the plan! They were supposed to close back in September, but there has been numerous delays..... I made a sketch of their current home - so when they FINALLY move into their new home, they can hang this photo that shows where they have lived and raised their family for the past FORTY years!

 

Ryan went to homecoming with a group of friends

 His date was with a girl named Tori

 

Senior Night was in mid October - It was a bittersweet night! We are sure going to miss our Fall Friday Night Games next year! Love this Kid!

I bought a TON MORE necklaces! And YES, I'm starting to run out of space in my Armories!

 

We celebrated Jacob becoming a TEENAGER!

 We had a very tragic event happen in our community this past week.  A little kindergartner who lives in the townhouse/condos connected to our street was murdered by her babysitter.  She attended Brookdale School and was in my very good friend's class this year.  I created the Tagxedo Word Cloud.  The school then framed it and had her classmates sign the mat around the picture.  It was then given to the mother of the victim at her memorial service.  (This happened a week after a football player from Ryan's school was killed in a car accident when "joyriding" with 3 other 15 year olds in the middle of the night). 

 

Monday is the Football Awards Night.  I created an hour long picture slideshow with video for the team.  They will be playing it at the event!  If you'd like to check it out, I have uploaded it to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5TIJIC8HXQ

 

Until Next Time.............

 

 

New School Year

I wish we could roll back time to my last post - it was mid-summer! 

 

Ryan started his senior year of high school! Hard to believe this is the last year of high school - time is going by way too quickly!

I landed in my friend's second grade classroom this year. (She's in red below):

I have three supported ed students - I am enjoying working with them.....so far! 

I was asked to create a couple displays/signs - This is a classroom sign for a teacher in second grade:

 

 

This is the bulletin board in the faculty lounge.  We have many new staff members this year - so to welcome them and for the staff to get to know them, I created a movie themed bulletin board.  Each new "cast member" answered questions about themselves and I wrote the information on a movie clapper - their photo and name (in lights!) appears next to the movie clapper.  The board had the black polka dotted material already  -  it sort of resembles theatre lights!  Along the edges of the bulletin board is each staff members yearbook picture with a sticker showing their name and position in the building.  This way the new teachers can get to know the "older" staff!

 

I've been doing quiet a bit of shopping!  I purchased over 50 necklaces at Kohls last weekend!  They were having a great sale......couldn't pass up those deals!

  Football season is under way. The varsity games are on Friday night and then Saturday mornings are the Jr. Varsity games.  I am the team photographer, so I'm on the field until late Friday night - come home, edit, upload, share links and get up and do the same thing the following morning!

This Friday's game is Mother Appreciation - can't wait to see what the boys have in store for us! 

 

My brother, David, decided to upgrade his Smartphone - so I "inherited" his Droid 3.

 We figured since we were upgrading to a data package - Ryan would also get a Smartphone - He got the Droid Charge:

 

Until next time.........