Saturday

Saturday was a busy day for our family. Keith had a job, and the kids had a full schedule. We started the morning with a band concert. Then we raced home (within the speed limit) and Kiley changed so she could go to her friends sweet 16 party, then I went home for a few hours and tried to stay awake and then went and picked Kiley up and took her over to the church so she could go to super saturday. I lucked out and Keith was able to pick her up so I didn't have to drive anymore. Except the drive home from the concert each way was at least a 35 minute drive or more. Sometimes driving makes me really sleepy. Danny had a great day playing on the computer and the wii. I put a video of one of the songs that they played at the concert, it is called Sing, Sing Sing. This song always makes me want to dance. I apologize ahead of time for the shakey camera, I have to press pretty hard on the shutter button to record and if I even lift my finger a little the video stops. Maybe someday we can get a real video camera, but for now this works. Enjoy!

labor day

We spent Labor day over at my mom and dad's house. They had tickets through Newburgh ward for a Renegades game. We were able to eat dinner and watch the game. During the game a guy came around and asked if anyone wanted to throw tennis balls into a hula hoop. Danny wanted to so grandpa gave him the money to buy the balls. The Renegades played the Staten Island Yankees. The Yankees were winning by a lot, 6-1. The Renegades scored 2 more runs in the 9th inning when I took a bathroom break, someone said they should of had me leave sooner. Anyway my family are not big baseball fans and we were thinking of going home early but, I wanted to see the fireworks and I didn't want to waste dad's $5. The fireworks were much better than we expected. They told all the people with Tennis balls to go to either dug out, They showed them were the hula hoops were and then told them to throw the balls. Whoever had a ball in a hoop would get a prize. Sounds easy, right? Well there were balls bouncing all over the place, and then they called out all of the names and Danny had gotten 2 in. So he wona $25 gift card to the Renegades shop were he picked out a nice long sleeve t-shirt. Thanks dad, I guess it wasn't a waste of money this time. All in all we had a good day, because we went swimming earlier and spent itme with our family!

labor day

labor day

labor day

Swimming in Grandma's pool

first day of school 9/3/08

Today was the kids first day back to school. They got up and packed their lunches and were ready to go. J.D. even waited with them at the bus stop, which is just at the end of our driveway. Kiley is so organized that when she came home she had her list of school supplies that we needed ready to go and she even high-lighted the dates of her tests. I hope that I can be like her when I grow up!

Danny had his first day of cross country track today. I am not sure if they ended up running or not but he sure fell asleep real fast when he came home today. He takes after his dad.

I think that they had fun today seeing their friends again and my kids are usually excited to go back to school.

raft racing

I am very new to making a video on this camera. I accidently let go of the button so it stopped and that is why there are 2 videos of the kids in the pool. This summer we spent a lot of time over at my parents home in Newburgh because a few of my sisters and my brother came in. For my family it was definetly a vacation. We played a lot of ping pong, darts and swam in the pool a whole lot. The kids and I went on a couple of bike rides down my parents road. So thank you mom and dad for letting us stay and play at your house! I have a whole bunch of pictures of the kids jumping in the pool that I will try and put together as a slide show.

raft race

raft races

Kendra and the Beechop

The stomach

Ok I have a very wacky husband who loves to show off his stomach. He really loves it if he is in a restaraunt with my mom and dad. Unfortunately he has rubbed off on my brothers but nobody can beat his stomach so I thought the whole world should see this!

Adam and Keith

Adam and Keith

There is really no explanation needed for these pictures! Keith and Adam are having a great time being themselves.

goofing off

goofing off

More goofing off. If you look at the picture of Adam, Maranda and Kendra jumping you will notice far off in the background Keith and Danny sitting on a boulder. I just want to say that sometimes I complain about my camera but I shouldn't. I really don't have anything to complain about. I just need to learn how to work my camera so it's me not the camera. Anyway in the next pictures of Adam and Keith or in the picture of Danny and Keith I am really far away from them but my camera is small and has a 10 optic zoom so I can get some pretty fun shots. So thank you Keith for giving me this wonderful camera that is capturing beautiful memories of our family! Ok so I will stop the mush.

goofing off

So we hike up to the lake and of course there is a big sign that says no rock climbing and other stuff. they basically don't want you to sue them if you get hurt or fall. Well I see Danny and Keith hanging off the side of the cliff and saying "look mom" I about have a heart attack not realizing that they are standing on a ledge. Marand is really happy because we were able to take a picture of her were she looks tall.

goofing off at Minnawaska

sitting on the ege of a waterfall

So Adam and Maranda came to NY for a visit. We all took a walk in Minnawaska. We wanted to show Maranda and her parents the waterfall but it has been dry so there is not much water. Keith and the kids loved sitting on the edge, it was pretty high up there!

Minewaska (not sure if it is speeled right)