Making Valentines

Emily has been hard at work on her Valentines for her class. She is making "ipods" for each of her classmates. You take a box of sweethearts and cover it with construction paper and then we added Hershey kisses to the end of strings for the ear buds. On Family Fun's website they had a template for the front dial and screen. I thought they turned out cute and Emily's happy with them. We stuck a sticker on the back and Emily did the To:/From: dealio on them and she's ready for Thursday's party!!

Being Thankful (again)

Emily was talking about a Thanksgiving card she had to give the family on Thanksgiving. I forgot about it and Emily remembered on Thanksgiving day while we were in Zanesville. She was quite upset that she couldn't give her card to the family because she had made it all by herself.

We got home late on Thanksgiving and didn't have a chance to remember the card and Emily finally remembered on Friday evening when we were sitting down to dinner and she ran upstairs and got it. It was cute ... had a hand print on the front that was made to look like a turkey and a lovely poem inside about how much she loves us.

We all gushed about it and told her how much we loved the card and what a great job she did on it. She accepted her praise and we continued dinner. As I was cleaning up, I happened to turn the card over and noticed a date written in my handwriting ... it said 11/2007. It took me a second to figure it out, but it appeared as if she has gone into her keepsake box and grabbed the card she made in kindergarten and re-gave it to us for Thanksgiving this year.

The ultimate in recycling.

Happy Father's Day

We hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day. We had a rather low-key day, but I hope that Brian enjoyed it. We tried to get a picture of Brian with the kids and I think we got a couple of good ones. We have some good outtakes too.

Thanks for the Great Christmas

We want to thank everyone for helping to make our holiday season merry and bright. I finally uploaded the pictures to share. I was hoping to comb through them and clean them up, but that isn't happening so I am just sharing them as is.

12-25-2008
12-27-2008
12-28-2008

ENJOY!

More Thanksgiving Pictures

Similar to our earlier pictures of Vinnie and Miley, here are some pictures from Thanksgiving Day.

We can take pictures but only in 5 minute segments, it appears.

Thanksgiving Tree

I thought we would share our Thanksgiving tree as many of you helped create it. Emily's been having fun reading them and counting the leaves over and over.

Thanks for helping to create our Thanksgiving decoration!

Vinnie & Miley Show

It is the Vinnie and Miley show. Unfortunately, we didn't get any other pictures on Saturday. Oh well - the babies are pretty cute!
http://picasaweb.google.com/jcdonato/Thanksgiving#slideshow