Miranda November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

Marla November 24, 2011

Getting in some football before dinner.

Maureen November 24, 2011

Annie had so much fun playing with Madi & Natalia today. She wants me to invite them down for a sleepover sometime, but I told her that it would probably have to wait until January, after everyone's done working their seasonal jobs.

Miranda November 23, 2011

Gianni has toes/feet like me! : )

Maureen November 23, 2011

Annie rode with me to pick Allison up from the dorms, today. She's done with school until January, now!

Marla November 23, 2011

We are road tripping to Colorado for Thanksgiving. We are going to miss the Farrell clan...we hope you have an awesome day.

Miranda November 22, 2011

Race track fun!

Maureen November 22, 2011

Delivering the spelling bee participation packets to all of the students who signed up, at all of the different district schools. So far, 70 students are registered to participate, but there are still two schools that I haven't collected registrations from, yet. And, of course, I'm sure there will be latecomers, too.

Marla November 22, 2011

Cole getting ready to deposit a few checks that he got for his birthday.

Maureen November 21, 2011

After the orchestra concert tonight. This was Annie's first orchestra concert!

Miranda November 21, 2011

Happy boy at dinner

Jen November 20, 2011

Today is Emily's bday! She missed her daddy but her best friends were there and a big surprise came! GRANDPA!! She was so happy!

Miranda November 20, 2011

We had a visitor! : )

Marla November 20, 2011

Cole was bored for a little while today...until he got out the Philosophy for Kids book that his brothers got him for his birthday.

Maureen November 20, 2011

Worked my first shift at Carson's today.

Miranda November 19, 2011

Happy breakfast

Marla November 19, 2011

Secret Colours at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago.

Maureen November 19, 2011

We didn't have birthday candles, so we used these tapers that we found, when it came time to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Jim.

Miranda November 18, 2011

Scrap yard fun

Marla November 18, 2011

Did you see that "Secret Colours" was featured on one of MTV's websites today?

Maureen November 18, 2011

Annie & I helped organize the Girl Scout singalong event for her Service Unit. It was lots of fun leading the songs & seeing the girls have a good time singing them all.

Marla November 17, 2011

Dylan's new winter jacket arrived today. What I don't understand are these sticky notes. Now, if I were a thief and I were going to steal the package that is sitting outside of our door, I would also take the sticky note. Then the owner of the house would not even know that the package had been delivered.

Maureen November 17, 2011

Annie helped me out at the dineout night that we had at McDonald's, to raise money for Shelby's school PTO.

Miranda November 17, 2011

Since the rest of our week consisted of laundry and getting life back in order, I don't really have any pictures to share (unless you wanted to see the stack of mail we had or the laundry machine - I will spare you!) Instead, I thought I would share some other pictures from our vacation

Marla November 17, 2011

A new bulletin board that I made earlier this week and put up today. It's supposed to say "Don't be afraid to read" but, I didn't have time to put the words up. If you haven't read a Scaredy Squirrel book yet...you should.

Marla November 16, 2011

All of the Merra-Lee shops downtown Geneva are closing after 82 years in business. I went down today to check out the sales. I kinda like the bracelet on the left and thought that maybe I would send the photo to Eric, incase he is looking for a gift idea for me.

Maureen November 16, 2011

Shelby was helping me get some things from the PTO closet after school today, to get ready for tomorrow's dineout night. After we carried the stuff out to the car, he went exploring for a while in the wooded area by his school's parking lot.

Marla November 16, 2011

I drove Cole to school this morning. On days that they have tests in math they have a before school study session. I think that he's gone to every one.

Jen November 15, 2011

James and Emily played with their friends again at the park today James rode in this jeep with his girlfriends.

Maureen November 15, 2011

One of the local cheerleading teams had a dineout fundraiser at Dominick's Pizza tonight. The cook there went out of his way to make Shelby some delicious chicken that was safe for him to eat. Thanks!

Marla November 15, 2011

My gym added a Spa about a month ago. Today they had a Facebook contest to win a free manicure or pedicure...I chose the pedicure.

Jen November 14, 2011

Today was beautiful out. The kids played with all their friends outside in the leaves they had so much fun!

Miranda November 14, 2011

We stopped at Fort Campbell on our way home to see the memorial for Ben

Maureen November 14, 2011

Driving home from the gym, tonight, I realized that the road in front of our house was open going in both directions! We've had one lane or the other closed for construction since early last spring.

Miranda November 13, 2011

Gianni pretending to be Daddy in the hotel in Tennessee

Marla November 13, 2011

Cole's 4th grade class reunion. His teacher really liked this class and wants to get them together once a year. This is probably about half of the class.

Maureen November 13, 2011

We got out to work on the fort for a while tonight. The roof in one of the rooms had fallen down, so we had to clear it out & re-think the structure.

Miranda November 12, 2011

Internation Peanut Festival in Alabama! These are boiled Peanuts and a fried twinkie

Marla November 12, 2011

We went out for Cole's birthday to play a few rounds of lazer tag. He had 2 friends, 2 cousins, 2 brothers and 2 parents play with him.

Maureen November 12, 2011

Girl Scout field trip to Museum of Science & Industry today