New Camera and the Long Weekend...

I got a new camera! It is a Canon Rebel and I love it. It isn't too heavy or too light. I only have one lens right now, but another is on order. I wanted to share some of the shots I took with it this weekend. Maggie was here visiting and it was great to capture that
on film too! We had a great weekend... lots of visiting, shopping, deserts and fun. Ciera & Logan even had a sleepover with us on Friday night --everyone had a good time.

Steven and Logan --playing basketball out back

Logan didn't object to the pictures at all -which is unlike him....














River loved Maggie ... she took him for walks and let him up on the bed with her.. they are lifelong friends now.

Happy, Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful day. I am typing this on my new computer (without Picassa to load my pictures into) so the photo's will have to come later....

Maggie is here visiting and we spent most of the day at my parents house. Kids, great food, shopping ad's and family time... there is nothing that could be better.

Relaxing, relaxing day... now I have to head off to bed as I am shopping with my mom & Cyn at 4 am!!!! I can't really believe stores are opening that early, really I can't. I know they wouldn't if people didn't come, and I am going to go... but still.....

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Finally home. We had a great trip...

Finally home. We had a great trip to New Jersey. Steven, Jack, and I enjoyed going to Coney Island and the acquarium, also Central Park with Grandma and Papa. It was a real neat trip, the boys are so amazingly old in the way they do things now. They played hard with their cousins and visited with lot's of relatives. Travelling with them is actually a lot of fun now. I can't wait until our trip to Ireland in March.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Above is Grandma & the boys....
and below is heading out....

We had a great night. Round Table Pizza, family time and trick or treating... what could top that?

It was us, my parents and my brother Brian and my nephew Logan. Logan dressed as his dog Scamp -totally cute costume!

Steven and Jackson were both Unknown Phantom's ....

Hope you had a safe and happy night.

Trunk or Treat?

We had it all planned! We were going to attend Trunk or Treat at our church (20 minutes away) Sunday night. Then after a busy weekend and a 3 hour birthday party for a friend Sunday afternoon -we were beat. So we decided to skip it. Then our friends (same ones who had the party) called to invite us to Trunk or Treat at their church -which just happens to be held at Steven's school 3 blocks away! So they game over and we went!!


The boys had a great time! There were lots of games and fun things to do.






Here are Jackson and Justin (whose party it was -great fun, by the way!) goofing around as they usually do.



Steven and Josh (Justin's older brother) are back to being the same height... Steven had fallen behind for a bit (they were the same at the end of 2006, but by the end of the school year Josh was ahead by about 1.5 inches) but has caught up for the most part. These two are really best buds, it does my heart good.

Crazy Hair Day at Silverado

This is how my kid looked when he left for school
this morning. Enough said....

Winter Ball

Steven is playing Majors in Winter Ball. He is on the Diamondbacks and having a good time. They play every Friday night at 5:30 p.m. and we have been quite lucky that it hasn't been freezing cold yet. Here a few pictures I snapped at the game last week of him batting. Even on sports mode with continous flash, my camera is too slow to get the whole at bat. But here's what we have. I love watching him Play Ball!

More softball pictures...

Jack took this one of my parents and I watching the game....What a beautiful day to be at a game!
We didn't see much of these two as they were off at the playground, playing football, running up & down the hills.. but they did come back for some cool refreshment.. love this picture!