Monday, November 30, 2009

Day 97 Perfect Profiles

I love these pics of the kids...Jennifer had such a hard time just smiling in the profile shot...she loved getting her pic taken and wanted to do the standard huge smile.  This marks the end of 1980.   For the next week or two, I will be posting Christmas 2008.   After those are all done, I'll get back to 1981.


Sunday, November 29, 2009

Day 96 - Photos with Great Grandma

This was a photo shoot before we all went to dinner together.



Saturday, November 28, 2009

Day 95 Christmas Eve - a.k.a. When the saints come marching in

A little out of order...check out Great Grandma doing the conga line from her chair...


Friday, November 27, 2009

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Day 92 Trimming the tree

This is the first set of tree trimming pics I have of the kids.   We also started a long tradition of making ornaments for aunts and uncles and grandparents.   This year we made beautiful sun catchers.


day 91 Christmas

This is the kids' last Santa Visit...hated that they were growing up too fast for Santa.


Sunday, November 22, 2009

Day 90 - Halloween

My kids hate these pics, but I love them!


Saturday, November 21, 2009

Day 89 - fall favorites

It's so interesting how we pick our "favorite" teams.   In this case the kids' favorites came from the JC Penney Catalog!



Friday, November 20, 2009

day 87 soccer

This was the first year for the kids to play soccer for the Y.


Thursday, November 19, 2009

Day 86 Summer fun

A couple of Misc pics of the kids that I thought were really cute, from this summer.



Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Day 85 Pool Babies

Just about every Sunday, we would head down to Beaver lake to picnic and swim...both kids were definitely water babies!


Day 85 vacation continues

Just about done with this trip.  This should have been posted yesterday.   Another one later today.



Monday, November 16, 2009

Day 84 Vacation

The trip continues around Lake superior


Sunday, November 15, 2009

Day 83 Vacation 2 & 3

This is yesterday's and today's post!   I'm not allowed to scrapbook on Sunday ; )








Saturday, November 14, 2009

Day 82 Vacation

After J&B's wedding, we headed up to Michigan and Ontario for the kids' first real "sightseeing" vacation.   This is the first page of a series of pages covering the trip.  This is yesterday's post!


Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Day 80 Tim's summer portraits

Tim loved green!   If he went shopping with me, he'd always pick out the green outfits.   This one is especially adorable!


Day 79 Gee's recital tap

This a yesterday's post...I could have sworn I posted it! 

The girls did such a good job with their tap number!   They were the hit of the recital.   Like the girls, the costumes were so adorable!   The Mom's made them, so they were all a little different.   The wigs were made by latch-hooking strips of yarn thru the openings of a hair net.   Every Saturday we would take the girls to dance and all the Mom's would sit in the waiting room latch-hooking the wigs.


Monday, November 9, 2009

Day 78 Gee's recital ballet

These costumes were so cute.   Gee's was orange, but the whole class was a rainbow of sherbet colors.  She did so great in her first ballet.


Sunday, November 8, 2009

Day 77 Mike and Donna's wedding

Beautiful wedding...I love the pics of Jennifer dancing with John and Tim passed out on the table!   He missed his nap and it was getting very late...





Saturday, November 7, 2009

Day 76 Tim's Birthday

Tim has dumped spiderman for the dukes of hazzard!


Friday, November 6, 2009

Day 75 Easter at the Zoo

Had a couple of pics of G&G, but they were terrible, so this just has the kids and the animals.  Jennifer's hair was done in what we called her "Bo Dereks".


day 74 Jennifer's 6th Birthday at home and McDonalds

I love the closeup of her blowing out the candles.   Back then, it didn't seem like close ups were very popular, so I was really happy when I found this one.   This is yesterday's post...forgot!  Another one later today.


Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Day 73 Christmas Day

This was our first Christmas with Mike's girlfriend, Donna.   We bought the kids the Hungry Hippo game.  They liked it, but the adults LOVED it!

This is also the last page for 1979...on to 1980!





Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Day 72 Christmas morning

Jennifer got her first two wheeler this Christmas; although, she was far more excited about the doll she discovered in the basket carrier!   Tim got a Spiderman Big Wheel, which looked pretty cool with his spiderman jammies and all the other spiderman stuff he got.


Sunday, November 1, 2009

day 69 and 70 visiting Santa and Tree Trimming

Got busy with flack from my kids yesterday from the Halloween pic I posted.   Here's yesterday's and today's posts.