Adam, Justin, and Luke Growing Up: 2010

Saturday, December 11, 2010

At The Grandparents and Aunt Laura's Pool

I haven't been able to put pictures on my computer for a while. My card reader was broken so I've had many pictures that I've want to put on here - here are a few.

Remember, click on the picture to make it bigger

At Aunt Laura's pool

Everyone sleeping on Grandma Mary's pull out couch- Amy LOVED hearing about this!

Holloween Pictures

After Trick-or-Treat

Getting ready for some candy

Thankgiving Pictures

That was a darn good turkey!

The set table

Mom and Luke getting ready to eat

First day of school

Our traditional First Day Of School picture in front of our house

Click on the picture to get a GREAT view of it

Saturday, December 4, 2010

The Christmas tree 2010

It's been almost 1 full year (on the 17th) that I started this blog-- right after Christmas last year. Here is Amy, Justin, and Luke putting up the Christmas tree. Adam was at a birthday party.

Just some different decoration shots

Grandparents over for Thanksgiving 2010

The Thanksgiving feast in Canonsburg

Luke's Preschool Thanksgiving Celebration

Luke had a very nice preschool Thanksgiving celebration. Here he's playing the "warm/cold" game-- this is the start of it:

Here he finds his prize:

Here he's having his feast!

Driving with Luke in his sun glasses

Luke just got these sun glasses and he loved them

Luke is talking to his grandma in this video

Halloween 2010

Luke getting dressed in his Iron Man costume- we just saw Iron Man ll and he was so excited to put it on

Halloween Part 2

Luke as Iron Man

Here is their haul-- the seemed to get much more last year, Luke got tired earlier this year then last. I wish we would have got more!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Pomagranate

The grandparents were over, and Luke saw a pomegranate--Ooooo

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Luke at Breakfast

Luke and I went for pancakes this morning at McDonalds-- spend a very nice day together-- from there, to the pet store then WallMart- we're people of WallMart!

The next post after this one is our trip to the pet store visiting our favorite birds directly after our nice Mcd's breakfast. This is the first time Luke actually ate all 3 pancakes! I wanted his last one, darn it.

Luke at the pet store

After our breakfast...

There is a nice baby bird at Petco that Luke loves- the bird is Jingles, next to Jingles is another bird, not as friendly, but Luke still likes to play with. Here are some videos of us at the pet store, with the birds, and with fish

Pickles:

short one of Pickles

Now just a short one with Jingles-- our favorite bird

with fish!

and 1 more with fish

Adam's School Hween Party

Adam had his first Halloween party at his intermediate school--- Here's Adam Conor and Austin eating at the beginning of the party....

There was a costume party at Adam's school- and Adam and Austin are showing their school spirit here before the announcement of the 1st place winner. I love Adam's school.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Hay Ride

Adam's school sponsored a hay ride at Spring Hill Farms. Lots of people went- we got to pick pumpkins, run around a corn maze, the kids pet some animals, we had a good dinner there, then ice cream.

Hay ride cont.

More hay ride

Hay ride cont.

More Hay ride

Hay Ride cont.

Even more of the hay ride

Friday, September 3, 2010

Trax Farms

Playing on the boat at Trax Farms

Luke being bad

Luke was being ornery, but when he knew he was being videoed he morphed into being badcute

Luke PreSchool Orientation

Coming out of the van

Just in

Luke PreSchool Orientation

Dance in the stairway

Luke with Mrs. B

Luke Dancing and Cooking at PreSchool during orientation

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Letterman

I can't stand Letterman- he's a liberal imbecile-- I can't believe he said this. Although I do LOVE that he said it, and I HOPE he's right!!!!!

The guy doesn't have a very accurate political prediction rate, though. He made some snide comment about Bush during his first time and old Davie was wrong.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Noodle Fight

Noodle fight in the back yard

Raccoon Creek

45 minutes north of us is a state park called Raccoon Creek- it's a campground, lake, hiking spot, and it's very nice. We all went to the "lake" (which is the "creek" that looks more like a river) ---nice time, great day, perfect temperatures...

It's the end of summer- damn- so Adam, Justin, and Luke were taken out for a good time, they had a lot of fun.

This is Raccoon Creek, really very pleasant and very nice-- I'm not much for spending hours at the beach, but we were there for hours and it was very enjoyable.

Raccoon Creek

Scenes from Raccoon Creek

Kids on the swing

Luke swimming in Raccoon Creek. He used to HATE going underwater, now it looks like he loves it

I told Luke to do something cute-- here he is trying to THINK of something to do cute, which (of course) IS cute

I took the camera in the lake to video all of us, nifty shot

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Big Boy Adam goes to Intermediate School Orientation!

Adam is going into the 5th grade-that's unbelievable. 5th grade is "intermediate school'" and it's a brand new building. We've been SO pleased with the public school in out neighborhood- K-4 has been an excellent experience and 5th grade looks fantastic. It's a new building, it has great resources, looks like it has great teachers and I'm sure Adam will love it. We all went to his orientation.

This video starts with his best friend Connor- he's a very good kid and lives in our neighborhood

Adam at his locker-- He's never had a locker, and- get this- they are not allowed to put locks on their locker-- very cool school

Leaving the school and heading off to lunch at Kings restaurant

After the Orientation

We had lunch after Adam's Intermediary School Orientation- some clips

Adam BEGGED for mozzarella sticks and he REALLY wanted and loves cheese casadeas , but he didn't want the cheese hanging out the casadea-- here he's "crying" about food again

The Pupa Project

I found a big ugly thing buried in the garden-- a squirming ugly fat worm thing. I showed the kids and we decided to keep it and see what it was, in the meantime I looked up what it was- and what it turned into, at the end is the link of the "Manduca Project," Manduca being the moth that comes out of the pupa- the kids loved the whole thing

Luke in particular LOVES all things bugs, he wanted to touch the ugly thing- without hesitation, I really didn't even want to touch it at first, but Luke wanted to from the get go

Holding the pupa

Views of our Pupa

A better contrasting view of the pupa

The pupa squirming in it''s new temporary home

Another view of pupa

The Final Stages of the Pupa

The unveiling of the Moth!!! We were so excited and the moth was awesome. Luke wanted to keep him, but it flew away as you'll see. Fly, be free....

Some school does a project with these Caterpillars/pupa called the "Manduca Project" Click on that word to see the life cycle-- I found this site when I found the pupa and correctly identified the moth that was going to come out.

Finding a nice shady spot to hide in, then "SHUT THE DOOR, SHUT THE DOOR..."

Remnants of the pupa

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A Surprise Weekend at the Grandparents

The Weekend of August 14. 2010 Amy had to take some medicine and needed to be home alone- so we surprised Grandma and Grandpa. Here are some scenes...

The Kids watching TV

Luke was awake, then all of a sudden he was out

Millhollow During the Surprise Weekend

Looking for crayfish and fossils at Millhollow during the weekend surprise- the boys loved this,

Feeding the geese at Millhollow, someone was nice enough to leave bread in the grass for us to feed the geese

More geese feeding

At The Beach In Vermilion

After Millhollow and after looking for fossils and crayfish, on a whim we went to a cute little beach in Vermilion and they got to go in the lake-- the water was very warm and they had a blast. This is still part of the Grandparent surprise weekend.

Luke was LOVING going under water and doing his swim thing

Luke enjoying the waves

The Kids At Lake View

It was a very windy day at the Lake. This is Lake View- we saw a huge Buzzard, and Luke loved chasing the sea gulls. Still the Grandparent Surprise weekend.

At Laura's Pool

We spent much of the day on Saturday on our trip to the Grandparents at Laura's pool. The kids loved it

After time in the pool, the kids watched Night At The Museum 2--Luke fell asleep

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

What, No Krispy Kreme??

A quickie

and again

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Blast From The Past 2002

DON'T FORGET YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PICTURE AND GET A BIGGER VIEW OF IT, THEN CLICK ON THAT PICTURE AND IT'S EVEN BIGGER.

Adam- That shrubbery is long gone

The GREAT Jake

Beautiful Justin

At the pool

Blast From The Past 2002

Adam in 2002.

Justin in 2002

See the tree Justin is crawling under? That tree is taller then our house now. Justin has to be about 18 months old and Adam is about 2 1/2 years old. It doesn't feel like we've been here this long.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Body Slam!!!

Title says it all...

All Three in the pool

Adam, Justin, and Luke in the kiddie pool. After this there are a lot of videos of Luke- I had to put in a video of all there just to be fair.

Luke In The Pool-- The first time in the summer of 2010

Luke had been in the pool earlier- last year- but this is the first time he really had an recollection of what being in the pool really is. He obviously loves it.