Chicago Pics

Ask and you shall receive, or don't ask and just give me a couple weeks, either way here are pictures from our Chicago trip.

Katie and her big icecream coneTJ having icecream
Katie & TJ hand feeding Muffy

Justin & Jayne

April

Katie playing in the water

TJ & Justin playing in the water

The CO clan

Great Grandma & TJ

Katie being sassy

Katie being sassy take 2

Susie & TJ

Grandma with her kids and their spouses

4th of July

Ok, I am up to this month, I am at least catching up a little! For the 4th we met TJ's god parents at a parking lot at Mines. We BBQed and the watched the fireworks.

Katie and TJ watching fireworks from the back of the truck.

Daddy showing TJ the fireworks

TJ's god parents with their new addition

VBS 2007

Ok, so, it took me almost a month, but here are the VBS pics. We had 145 little kids running around the church. It was a little crazy, but I think this year went rather well.

TJ

Miss Janie
Katie

Katie

TJ in the nusery

Katie & friends

Carla trying to control a bunch of 1st, 2nd, & 3rd graders

Leslie and boys

Aunt Janie & TJ
Katie

Reading up

Home

Well, we made it home. It was great to see his aunts and uncles and cousins. Not to mention the kickin Chicago pizza. Of which I am officially a Pal Joey's fan over an Al's fan, but only by a small margin. The kids did good, of course. I was pretty emotional, but what are you going to do with hormones everywhere and very little sleep? Better hit the coffee, I think it might be another migrane day. Will post pics later.

Chicago or Bust

Well, we leave tomorrow night for Chicago. Let's just hope it goes better than the IA trip in March. Wish me luck!

Bump Update

15 weeks

Happy Birthday Katie

Scott's Party

Here are some pics from Scott's party. Enjoy!
Birthday Boy & Geoff


Doug (sorry it had to be done)

Brian, Cindy, Rhonda, Dad, Gracie, Adam, Nicole

Zak & Shoshanna

Nicole, Adam, Brian, Joel, & Tami

Doug, Cat, Geoff, Scott, Nicole, Adam, Brian

Tami & Shoshanna

Cindy & Brian

Doug, Scott, Gracie, Geoff

Diamond

Grandma Rhonda, Katie, TJ, Grampa

Katie tuckered out on the swing after the festivities

Katie Graduates Preschool

Katie graduated from preschool today. It was really cute. They sang a few songs. Katie was in the center of the front row, acting very silly. Mom says she flashed everyone her Elmo panties, but I missed that. When they received their diplomas they asked each kid to say what their favorite part of school was. Katie's anwser was "um.... carrots!" It was a lot of fun and now she will tell you she is in PreK and very excited about it.

Leslie's last concert

I went to Leslie's last concert of the year. It was also Mr D's last concert as he is retiring this year. It was great to hear a lot of the songs I sang in choir OH SO MANY years ago. I kept elbowing Janie (who I don't really think was listening) and saying "I sang this one too!" She got a kick out of that.

New Car

Well, here is a really bad picture of the new car. We have been driving it for about a week now and we have no complaints. I think it is going to work out well for us. I spent today getting ready for Scott and Katie's birthday parties. Katie is getting so excited! She has been carring around an extra invitation for a couple days now. It is very cute.

Weird Library Story

Ok, right before I went to IA I checked out some books for the kids to read in the car. Some books I took back right before the trip. The others NEVER left the car. Also meaning as you well know that we didn't have them for most of the trip. Once we returned I asked Scott to return the books to the library for me on his way to work. Now usually I double check the books with my list before returning them, but as I was busy unpacking and they all stayed together in the car, I just sent them with him. A week later, right before they were due, I got an email reminding me one was about due. Figuring it just got pushed under a car seat or something I renewed it for the time being noting that it was due back the 1st of this month. Then I searched the car the kids rooms and even moved furniture. I have NEVER lost a library book. But I couldn't find it anywhere. I decided I was just going to have to pay for it the next time I was in. Well, with everyone being sick and all, we haven't been to the library since we got back. Rembering today that the book was now lost AND over due and wondering why I didn't get an email saying it was almost due I got on to the library web site to check the status of my account. I have no fines and nothing checked out?!?!!? I guess Scott did get it there and for some reason it didn't get checked in. WEIRD