Wednesday, May 12

Maureen May 12, 2010

This is a sister to Colleen's cat. We have her mother and another sister at our house, too.

Margie May 12, 2010

At the library.

Marla May 12, 2010

Cole and I went on a field trip today after school. We worked at "Feed our starving children" for a few hours. We put together packets of a rice mixture to send to Haiti. I smell a cousins day idea.

Miranda May 12, 2010

G and I were playing with the camera today. He thought it was so funny when I took a picture of him - of course he laughed hysterically after the picture was taken!

Tuesday, May 11

Jen May 11, 2010

Movers came today and today was the kids first day of daycare. The movers blocked my bathroom and some of my drawers in my room and the whole house was filled with boxes.

Miranda May 11, 2010

We got our new light put outside on Saturday. We still have to get the electric hooked up, but I'm excited to have it finally put up since we bought it 3 years ago!

Marla May 11, 2010

Maureen and I met Mrs. Mueller at Panera for coffee and conversation. Mrs. Mueller is our old friend Julie's mom. She filled us in on what has been going on with Julie all these years and why she disappeared out of our lives.

Maureen May 11, 2010

Future strawberries (aka - squirrel food)

Margie May 11, 2010

A playdough snake on his way to eat a playdough mouse. Rainy day fun!

Colleen May 11, 2010

Guess who was sleeping in Ellie's new bed when I woke up today.

Monday, May 10

Marla May 10, 2010

First night that Vaughn played on Eric's softball team. They won.

Colleen May 10, 2010

Nothing exciting today so I took a picture of Ellie's new bed.

Miranda May 10, 2010

Today is our 2nd Anniversary!

Maureen May 10, 2010

We're always remodeling at work, it seems. Today, I was told that the Aurora IT staff (including me) will be moving to new cubicles in a different part of the building later this week. This will be my new cube. How exciting! This will be the second time that I've worked out of this particular office. The time before, though, I had a different job altogether.

Margie May 10, 2010

I received an invitation to Terra's wedding. I feel pretty honored to be invited.

Sunday, May 9

Jen May 9, 2010

Today is mothers day I got a brand new camera! I love taking pictures with it. Had fun today with the kids

Margie May 9, 2010

Madi is trying out the new tire swing that Jesse & I hung up.

Colleen May 9, 2010

Clint and I at the Mother's Day Brunch at Gaslight Manor.

Marla May 9, 2010

Happy Mother's Day!

Maureen May 9, 2010

This game is Bonkers! Hey, guys (mostly Marla, Molly, Colleen & maybe Margie) - remember playing this? We bought it used off e-bay when Allison was little and it's still just as much fun playing it now with Annie!

Miranda May 9, 2010

My Mother's Day gift from Joe and Gianni. We had a nice ride!

Saturday, May 8

Margie May 8, 2010

Here it comes!! My very generous neighbor brought over the first load of items from his garden - rhubarb. I still have some in the freezer from last year.

Colleen May 8, 2010

Clint arriving to Geneva on the train.

Marla May 8, 2010

Dylan and I made breakfast for everyone (waffles, eggs and hashbrowns). Dylan convinced Cole to clean up the pans when we were done eating.

Maureen May 8, 2010

Daisy sleeps everywhere & she does it stubbornly. If you try to move her from where she's sleeping, she'll resist. And, if you don't put her somewhere better, she'll go right back to where she was.

Friday, May 7

Jen May 7, 2010

Getting James closet organized

Marla May 7, 2010

Destiny showed me her brand new shoes at school today. They are called "Twinkle Toes". I think they are so cute (too bad I never had a girl)

Maureen May 7, 2010

I got some more early Mother's Day gifts, when I picked the kids up from school today! Flowers & candy!

Miranda May 7, 2010

I made popcorn brownies tonight for our block party meeting! Yum!

Colleen May 7, 2010

I spent too much time in front of this today.

Margie May 7, 2010

Where's Madi?
Under the "T" with a blue apron on. Grandparent's Day. It was a tribute to Miss Patty, the school cook for 21 years.

Thursday, May 6

Marla May 6, 2010


We went to Vaughn's last high school orchestra concert tonight.



We saw this boy walk in-Cole said "I hope that he doesn't sit in front of us". His spiked hair stood at least 12 inches tall.



Orchestra number one played and now it's time for Vaughn's orchestra. ("Spike" from my first photo is the girl next to Vaughn's boyfriend.)

Cole typed this message to me on his Ipod.



As much as Cole wanted to we didn't go home. After Vaughn's orchestra there was another one and then Vaughn's orchestra went up to play 2 more songs. The stage was just packed (there were also some band students up there) FYI-I let Cole leave the auditorium and wait for us in the cafeteria.





It was senior night so they had all of the students line up and say what their plans were for next year.

Colleen May 6, 2010

It's probably about time I put away these Easter decorations.

Miranda May 6, 2010

Banging on the pots and pans! : )

Maureen May 6, 2010

Spring Sing

Wednesday, May 5

Jen May 5, 2010

Unpacked more today and took a break by going to the park.

Colleen May 5, 2010

Marla, Eric, Cole and Donna came out to St Peter to help take apart the First Communion Banner from previous pictures. Thank you.

Miranda May 5, 2010

Joe's work in progress!

Marla May 5, 2010

Showing me some chords.

Maureen May 5, 2010

I took a break from census work tonight & we all went to the dog park, instead. Charlie was catching a frisbee again, just like when he was a puppy.

Tuesday, May 4

Janet May 4, 2010

On May 4, Janet sent out an email with many wonderful photos of Brady. Miranda suggested that I post some of them, since some people may not have received the email.

Welcome to the world, little human being!

Miranda May 4, 2010

I'm going to try and grow a mini garden this year. Maybe next year we will do a bigger one?

Maureen May 4, 2010

Annie needed a photo of me for some secret project she's doing at school. So, I took a bunch until I got one that I liked. Yay for digital cameras!

Marla May 4, 2010

I heard that this might be the last day that the ducklings are at our school. So, I had to get a picture of them swimming. We have a set of ducklings every year and one of the teachers always brings a kiddie pool in for them. The momma duck builds her nest and lays the eggs in one of our two courtyards. Then when they think the ducklings are big enough one of the staff members lead the momma and her ducklings through the school (after hours) and down to the river.