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.

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

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

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

What, No Krispy Kreme??

A quickie

and again

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.

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.

Luke's Tickle Torture part II

Here is more of Luke's tickle torture

Luke's Birthday Bike- Part I

Luke got an awesome bike for his birthday----

Luke Birthday Bike Part II

More of Luke with his bike

A video from winter- Yuck, winter sucks

A winter video that was left in the camera- winter SUCKS