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.............

 

 

Fall Fun!

This weekend was "homecoming".  (actually Ryan's school does not have homecoming yet - because there are no alumni due to the fact it is a new school!)  We met up at the Riverwalk to take pictures. 

Look at my handsome boy!

Notice his bootineer!

Ryan and Raymond have been friends for over 8 years! He lives directly across the street from us!  Cassidy is Ryan's "new" girlfriend and Gina is Cassidy's best friend - who went with Raymond as a friend.  After pictures were taken, the four went to Giordano's for dinner, then to school for the dance.

Ryan and Cassidy. We didn't do too bad matching his tie! (We only knew that the dress was green and black!)  Ryan purchased the corsage on his own! There were rhinestones inside the flower arrangement.

This was my weekend project.  These cute little ghost cover a Renuzit Air Freshner! They are so adorabale!  It takes about an hour to make ONE - so it was quite an ordeal making so many!  I will be giving them as a fall gift to friends at school.

CLOSE UP!

Last weekend, we celebrated my Dad's birthday! Happy Birthday Dad!

We are in our last week of Football.  I've been taking over 1000 pictures between the Varsity and Jr. Varsity Teams. It's been fun capturing all the excitement! 

Molly Shannon visted Brookdale last month.  She wrote a book and came to do a presentation for the kids.  She's been in a lot of movies and was on Saturday Night Live for many years! 

Tomorrow we have a field trip in Kindergarten! It's going to be a brisk day at the Pumpkin Farm!

Until Next Time