Making Valentines

Emily has been hard at work on her Valentines for her class. She is making "ipods" for each of her classmates. You take a box of sweethearts and cover it with construction paper and then we added Hershey kisses to the end of strings for the ear buds. On Family Fun's website they had a template for the front dial and screen. I thought they turned out cute and Emily's happy with them. We stuck a sticker on the back and Emily did the To:/From: dealio on them and she's ready for Thursday's party!!

Vinnie's Birth Video

There are some advantages to foot surgery ... I finally worked on Vinnie's birth video and finished it. We had video and pictures that we used this time around. It is long, so you might want to watch it when you have some free time.

Songs are: A New Day Has Come by Celine Dione and My Wish by Rascal Flatts

Snow Days!

Just FYI - the snow is cancelling most of the activities this weekend. Emily and Tony's basketball games are cancelled on Saturday. They will not make a decision until later about Kristen's Sunday game.

Also, Tony & Kristen both were scheduled to go to the Sweetheart Dance at their school this weekend. Tony with his sweetheart and Kristen with a friend - but that dance has been postponed until Febuary 27th.

Have a good weekend and stay warm and drive safe!

Cookies!!

I just received word that Emily’s brownie troop is going to start Girl Scout cookie sales on January 4^th.  Be thinking about what you want to order as Emily will be in contact soon!!

 

 

 

Sorry for the lateness

I should have sent something out prior to now, but we aren’t exactly exhibiting our A-game recently.  However, Tony and Vinnie both have Christmas programs tomorrow evening.  Vinnie’s is his daycare center program.  They are doing a holiday program at the local recreation center at 6pm tomorrow (12/16).  Then at 7pm, Tony’s high school band is having their concert.

 

Being Thankful (again)

Emily was talking about a Thanksgiving card she had to give the family on Thanksgiving. I forgot about it and Emily remembered on Thanksgiving day while we were in Zanesville. She was quite upset that she couldn't give her card to the family because she had made it all by herself.

We got home late on Thanksgiving and didn't have a chance to remember the card and Emily finally remembered on Friday evening when we were sitting down to dinner and she ran upstairs and got it. It was cute ... had a hand print on the front that was made to look like a turkey and a lovely poem inside about how much she loves us.

We all gushed about it and told her how much we loved the card and what a great job she did on it. She accepted her praise and we continued dinner. As I was cleaning up, I happened to turn the card over and noticed a date written in my handwriting ... it said 11/2007. It took me a second to figure it out, but it appeared as if she has gone into her keepsake box and grabbed the card she made in kindergarten and re-gave it to us for Thanksgiving this year.

The ultimate in recycling.

Bon Voyage

Here is a cute video of Emily and Jack dancing on stage at the Bon Voyage party on the Disney Cruise. They got right in the middle of things and were having a ball. Emily is in the orange and white stripe shirt and Jack is to the left of her in the pink and navy shirt.

Halloween Fun

I wanted to share some pictures from Halloween. Emily went as Hannah Montana, Vinnie went as Captain Kirk. Kristen even dressed up as a baseball player to pass out candy. And Brian got into the action with is Spock shirt. It was a fun night! We don't have any pictures of Tony, but he was there. He passed out candy and had some friends stop by to help him out.

Here is a link to some photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=156097&id=657663199&l=ca543261b7

Also, here are some photos from a few weeks ago when I took Emily and Vinnie to the pumpkin patch: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=150329&id=657663199&l=a46a08489c

Soccer Season Coming to a Close

Fall soccer season is nearing the end. Emily has a game the 24^th and the 31^st and then her season is complete. Both games are in Dublin at the fields that are walking distance from our house.

Tony and Kristen appear to have a game on Sunday somewhere near Easton at 2pm? That is the information that Tony gave me last night when I spoke to him briefly. He said that is what the coach told them at the end of the game last week. We do not have any more details than that.

They also have a game in Dublin on Sunday, November 1^st. I suspect that this will be their final game. I do not know if their team will play in any tournaments, but we leave for Disney that next weekend so they would probably miss the tournament.

So, if you were looking to get to a game this season, those are your remaining options.

The mind of a 7 year old

Yesterday we were driving down the road and Emily started rambling on about fences. I could not follow what she was talking about at all and asked her to clarify and the conversation went something like this:

Me: Back up … what fences are you talking about? The ones along the road? The ones around a yard? Where are these fences?

Emily: I don’t know. They are everywhere.

Me: But you are talking about a specific fence. Where is it?

Emily: I’m not talking about one fence. I’m talking about all of them. They are in the ground.

Me: Okay, I get that. But that doesn’t narrow it down for me. What do the fences look like?

Emily: (rather frustrated with me at this point) They have lines in them and things like socks can go through them. There is one at my school.

Me: Do the lines look like Xs?
(and socks?!? Seriously, how is this a clue?)

Emily: No, Mom! They look like LINES! STRAIGHT LINES?!?! All beside each other.

Me: I’ve seen fences that are made up of lines and sometimes people put white, Styrofoam cups in them to spell out words. Is that what you mean by putting things through them?

Emily: No, those are Xs. I said these fences have straight lines. Plus these are in the ground.

Me: But aren’t all fences in the ground?

Emily: No, the ones I am talking about lay down on the ground. Like they are flat on the ground.

*long pause*

Me: Emily, do you mean grates that water runs down and the straight lines keep things like big sticks and leaves from getting stuck?

Emily: YES!! Those type of fences.

*MUCH CHEERING ENSUES*

Me: Okay, those aren’t fences, honey. They are called grates. What is it that you wanted to tell me about grates?

Emily: Oh I don’t remember anymore.

And that is when my head exploded.