Guitar Heros

12.26.2008

We have some budding rock stars in the family...

So serious, Mac!

Look at the face, Lu!Concentration...

And Daddy can't stand it... he HAS to join in!

Christmas in Toledo

12.25.08

Christmas at Grammy's house...Lu, cousin TJ, MacBrady is the Very Hungry Caterpillar eating your shoulder?
Lucas lounges in his new robe from Grammy!

Grammy gets her new calendar from the boys!

Grammy and Andie BethCousins: Brady (2), Andie Beth(13), TJ(15), Lucas(6), and Mac(10)

12.25.08

Christmas 2008

12.25.08
Christmas morning... all the Santa gifts just waiting...Pure excitement waiting for mom and dad to let them come downstairsto see what Santa has brought!!What's in this big box for both of us???

It'sGuitar Hero!!!! WooHoo!!!

Both boys also got their own "real" tool sets!!!!

And lots of Lego Indiana Jones sets!! Risk! Cool!!

Lucas got a new Eric Carle book!!

Finally... Lined Crocs!!!!!!

Who is that masked man with wings????

One of Lu's favorite new books... Bad Dog, Marley.

Mac playing Madden 09- one of the items on the top of his list!

A new St. Brigid fleece jacket.

Christmas Eve 2008

12.08.24

So, Greg took the boys to get their hair cut this morning. Christmas Eve. I was so impressed that this is how I decided to take their Christmas pictures...

And this is how their hair really looked...

After the Children's Mass at St. Brigid.

I was finally convinced that the hair would grow back. Some day. And most people will know my kids are not part of the arian nation or prisoners of war. The rest will just have to wonder.

The First Gift of Christmas...

The boys always beg to open one gift on Christmas Eve... Little do they know how unexciting it will be becuase I always wrap up their new Christmas jammies and make them open that box!! Teeheehee.So excited!!! And there are they are!!! Darn, Mom.

Christmas Cookie Baking: a Tradition

12.22.08

I have been baking Christmas cookies ever since I can remember. My grandmother was a nutritionist and home economics teacher and she taught me everything she knew about cooking, sewing, nutrition etc... I haven't retained everything she knew, or even a quarter of it, but she sure taught it to me! The one thing that interested me and therefore stuck was baking cookies. Of course Grandma used to make about 10 different kinds at Christmas, but I have carried on the tradition with just 2 kinds! The photos below are the boys in the third phase of our cut out cookies- painting them. We paint with egg whites and food paint.

A Visit with Santa

12.13.08

Our annual visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus did not fail to please. The boys had a great time hanging out with our family friends the Franks while we waited and afterward while we decorated cookies and ate many too!!

St. Brigid 5th Grade Basketball Season Begins

12.13.08

Sorry, some of the pictures are dark. I hate taking pictures in a gym! They never come out well.

Today the Wolfhounds played St. Andrews and won on a BUZZER SHOT!! What an exciting game!!!

Coach Dad... coaching son, Mac.

Taking a break with teammate Andrew.

Baronscourt Neighbors Christmas Progressive Dinner

12.9.08

I was a terrible photographer at our Christmas Progressive Dinner... I forgot to take pictures all together at the first house... excpet for this one of our great host and hostess Mike and Amy Gonidakis. Then I still took very few shots and even less good ones. I'm really slacking.

This was at the "dinner" house, the Travis home. Fiona is in the center of the above pic and Alan is at the head of the table in the lower pic.

At our dessert house, Martha and Dan Pugh, I managed to get a few more shots, but completely missed the host and hostes!!
This is my friend and almost nextdoor neighbor, Mickie and her husband Scott.

And this is Kevin and Nikki Petry, who joined our Christmas partyfor the first time this year!

I will try to be better as the photographer next year! And maybe I'll even be in one!

12.7.08