Michigan Family Photos

Everyone

Grandkids with Grandparents

Maureen and John with their kids

Kitties on Christmas!

the cats love this Anki Drive track

Christmas Eve 2015

Family viewing of Star Wars, then cookies out and wait for Santa!

RAIN in CA is a GOOD THING!!!

It's been weeks since we've had to run the sprinklers or fill the pool.  YEA!!!!!

Santa Clause is coming to town

The boys reluctantly posed with Santa at our neighborhood party

Had the ladies over for a "cookie tasting" after my cookie exchange the previous night.

Bear helping me make fudge.

Bad kitty on the counter......

Chris' Christmas Choral Concert (an alliteration!)

Bittersweet, but mostly sweet (they're growing into such great young men), photos from Chris' last elementary school Christmas concert

Tbirds Awards Ceremony

Both boys received Platinum Athlete Scholar awards last night.  Good kids, and they clean up well!  That's Stephen's coach Walter Cribb with him in the picture with the trophy.

TURKEY BOWL!

Great football weekend.  Chris' Jr. Pee Wee team didn't pull out the win, but finished a strong league second.  Stephen's Pee Wee team went undefeated for the season and won the Championship game.  Both kids got sweatshirts to commemorate the event!

Concert: The Weeknd

Not too often I do something interesting!  Went to a concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland with my friend Denise Stineman to see The Weeknd.  Fun!

Putting up the tree!

BOTH boys go to the Turkey Bowl

6 years of football, neither boy has ever made it to the Championship game, and this year both kids made it!

Thanksgiving Morning

Flag football game before spending a great day with the Hiltebrand/Bugbee family.  The kids are hard to see in this pic, but they are there.  I was surprised by how many showed up to play!

Antoanela, Brett and Emma

My friend Antoanela is visiting the area from Ohio with her family.  Stephen's friend Brett spent the night and we all met for breakfast in the morning - The Peasant's Courtyard, yum!  That's Zach Worth with us too

Cats!

No blog is complete without the occasional pet picture!  Here are Boots and Bear

1st Philanthropy Event

I'm on the board for a new charity league - Boys Team Charity- Alamo/Danville League.  I took the boys and two of their friends to Shelter Inc, a local food shelter that also provides clothing and sets the homeless up with low income housing as best as they can.  Mixed reviews from the boys (Stephen, Chris, Chase and Tanner) - when this picture was taken, they didn't know what to expect.

Chris won his 1st Playoff Game!!!

Despite 2 touchdowns and a 90 yard run called back (penalties) the Jr. Pee Wee Tbirds are victorious, 6-0.  Seriously tough defense.  Offense was a bit offside and down field :-).  The mom's made posters for their boys to rally them to the championship game.

Turkey Trot

Chris ran 4 miles in the Turkey Trot at school Friday!

Basket Brigade

At school, Stephen and I helped put together some food baskets for the less fortune today.  All week the PTA collected food donations and each basket includes a homemade pumpkin bread. Tomorrow I help drive them to some shelters.

Halloween Pics

And just for fun, here were their Halloween pictures.  Poor Chris didn't get to trick or treat.... He got pretty sick after his football game that morning.  Stellar mom that I am, I let him play with a sore throat......

Starting a new blog for the kids

So... I enjoyed looking at the blog posts I did for the kids when they were younger (http://boyadventures.blogspot.com/).  I moved to posting things on Facebook in 2010-2011, but now I'm thinking I like the blog better.  I have more control over who sees it, and it's like a diary of the kids growing up.  For some reason, I don't have edit control over that blog anymore, so I'm starting a new one.  Here it is, and here are my first pictures

11/2015.  Tbirds football.  Stephen is 12, #74, and plays on the PeeWee squad.  Chris is 10, #64,  and plays for Jr Pee Wee.