Miranda January 31, 2012

Happy Birthday to my mom - sadly, we are sick (mostly me) so we couldn't spend the day with her... : ( So, this is a picture from Christmas instead

Andrea January 31, 2012

Bryce @ the Spelling Bee. He had a lot of fun doing being involved in this & plans on doing it again next year. Big thanks to Maureen (& her helpers) for organizing this event.

Maureen January 31, 2012

My view from behind the judges

Marla January 31, 2012

Entered some online contests today...I won a $25 American Express card.

Miranda January 30, 2012

Goofy cat

Andrea January 30, 2012

TJ ”helping” with the Jewel tickets for the contest they are having that ends tomorrow. We had a TON & then Maureeen donated hers to the pile. If we win anything they get half.

Maureen January 30, 2012

Painting her pinewood derby car that she's making in her church youth group meetings. She missed last week & will miss tomorrow, because of the spelling bee.

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I got Cole a new pair of shoes. They came with 2 different color laces...he wanted one of each. As I was unlacing and relacing the one shoe that needed to be changed I was thinking...When they make shoes is there a machine that laces them or is that someones job to lace shoes all day?

Miranda January 29, 2012

Gabriele continues to work on feeding himself with a fork. He tries SO hard!

Andrea January 29, 2012

Busy Sunday. #1-Homemade Mac n Cheese & not so homemade blueberry muffins (i just love Jiffy brand). #2-Maureeen took Annie, Shelby, Bryce & TJ to Kline Creek... this little girl passed out hardcore when she got home.

Maureen January 29, 2012

Kline Creek Farm posted on it's Facebook page that they had a bunch of new lambs born yesterday. We went out to see them today & were so excited to bring Tabitha out with us. The kids had a great time teaching her to say 'bawk' and 'baaa' and 'moo'.

Andrea January 28, 2012

She desperately wanted to hold her ”little” brother. She is 20.5 # 30 inches. He is 17.5 # 27 inches.

Marla January 28, 2012

Eric and I went to see "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" at a movie theater in Glen Ellyn. Cole was at a birthday party and this was the closest theater that had a showing that would work within that time frame.

Maureen January 28, 2012

We went to watch the dog-sled demonstrations at Morton Arboretum, today. There were so many huskies there to meet & wish that we could adopt.

Miranda January 28, 2012

Does anyone understand Craigs List? I've put stuff for sale, but all I keep getting are spam emails?

Andrea January 27, 2012

Is that sign necessary?? The two in the middle top are fish heads!!!!

Marla January 27, 2012

Picking Cole up from school. They had Jivin' Geneva after school today (it is a party for all 6th graders, they can play volleyball, dodgeball, basketball or there is dancing in the cafeteria)

Maureen January 27, 2012

Adding up her cookie order totals before turning her order form in. If you ordered cookies, we should be delivering them in about 2 weeks!

Miranda January 27, 2012

Our family, plus one, at the Hideaway

Andrea January 26, 2012

I just love seeing daddys carry their kids on their shoulders. Makes me grin from ear to ear. (no I do not know these people)

Maureen January 26, 2012

After the last semi-final spelling bee, tonight, I took Annie out to eat to thank her for all of her help this week. We had a great adventure trying different foods at 'Taste of the Himalayas'.

Miranda January 26, 2012

I was looking through my pictures today and while looking at my Christmas pics, I remembered that we (mostly Colleen) thought about getting pictures together for Santa and making a book? Want to do that?

Marla January 26, 2012

Our furnace has been acting up for about a month...shutting itself off here and there. Eric finally had enough and called the heating company. The guy cleaned the senors and thinks it should be fine for a while but we will probably need to get a new one soon.

Andrea January 25, 2012

I was leafing through the Red Eye on my way home from work (I do the Sudoku & crossword word on my way in) to discover Secret Colours featured in the top 15 bands (#5) of Chicago. I am such a dork & wanted to show it to people on the train.... They all looked like fuddy duddies & would probably think I am crazy (which I am). So I sent a text to Marla instead.

Maureen January 25, 2012

Annie's in GATE math classes, but this homework seemed like something I remember learning in middle school, at the youngest.

Miranda January 25, 2012

Gianni's chart for brushing his teeth - he's been fighting us lately, so hopefully this helps!

Marla January 25, 2012

Secret Colours at Schuba's

Andrea January 24, 2012

Annie & Bryce hydrating during the spelling bee!

Maureen January 24, 2012

Fourth Grade Semi-Final, down to only 4 spellers.

Miranda January 24, 2012

This is where I do in home therapy on Tuesday nights.

Marla January 24, 2012

a little milk and cookie treat while doing his homework

Andrea January 23, 2012

Our days are littered with these little stinky packages.

Maureen January 23, 2012

Annie helped me get the first semi-final spelling bee set up & ready to go. It always makes my volunteering more fun when Annie comes with to help out.

Marla January 23, 2012

I picked Dylan and Vaughn up from the airport tonight (returning from their trip to Sundance Film Festival) They were supposed to come home last night but their flight was overbooked and they gave up their seats. They were given a hotel room for the night and a $500 travel voucher (each) for their trouble (and missed day of school). Now they can't decide where they should go with those vouchers (they do have lots of ideas though)

Miranda January 23, 2012

My kids went to the children's daycare at the gym today - they have been before, but haven't always done well...today was a different story - they loved it! It was so cute to watch them play and interact with the other children!

Andrea January 22, 2012

Wyatt is turning into quite a big boy already. Slow down mister!!

Miranda January 22, 2012

I'm going to start working with 3 children, so today I got out some of my therapeutic tools. I'm pretty excited to work with them!

Marla January 22, 2012

January Sibling get together. I put them to work on sorting some pictures from Aunt Mary Lou's house. Some to Rachael, some to Jim & Judy and some to Mary Jo. Then we had a lot of photos with people and places that we didn't recognize.

Maureen January 22, 2012

Sorting through Aunt Mary Lou's pictures, at our sibling get together. Thanks, Marla!

Andrea January 21, 2012

Pretty sure it's a conspiracy.

Miranda January 21, 2012

I don't think this is working anymore, but I don't really know. I really dislike trying to figure this stuff out!

Maureen January 21, 2012

Jim took them tubing this morning. When they got home, they worked together to make themselves a complicated breakfast.

Andrea January 20, 2012

This damn thing didn't work all last night & through half of today. Coldest night of the year. Snuggled all night long with the babies & Nathan.

Maureen January 20, 2012

Last day of Spelling Club. We watched 'Akeelah & the Bee' & ate popcorn.

Miranda January 20, 2012

I love taking the kids out in the snow, but it's hard because Gianni never wants to come back in and Gabriele isn't so much a fan of the snow yet...so, I decided the boys could help me bake since we were kinda snowed in. We made healthy 6 week muffins (you make the batter, put it in the fridge and then take it out as needed so you always have warm out of the oven muffins!) and fudge.

Marla January 20, 2012

Eric and Cole went to an overnight sleepover at the Field Museum in Chicago. The snowstorm put quite a new twist on their travels there. And, the next photo shows all of the free "swag" that Dylan and Vaughn got on Day 1 of their trip to the Sundance Film Festival.

Andrea January 19, 2012

I cross this bridge 2x a day & everytime I see this I wonder how many years it has been here.

Maureen January 19, 2012

Leaving the library, where I'd gone to put in an application for a part-time job.