Josh's first formal

It was actually turnabout. Her name was Abby. We were crammed into their small foyer, and they didn't actually know who to look at what time. So we have one good picture of the both of them.

Sunrise, sunset . . .

Okay so this is not something people usually post, and I'll probably pay for this later, but. . . gosh, do I feel old.

If you look very closely, there are blond hairs up there.
Yup, the thirteen year old needs this too, but has a

harder time with the concept.
Note Steve's lips in this pic, remind you of baby food days?

Halloween

Eliza was a hippee with a bit of generation confusion--not sure if she's disco, or gansta, and Josh was Heath Ledger's Joker. Ben slipped out the door before we could get a pic of him, but he was a "dead" skater punk. (Regular clothes with white face paint.) Oh, and the pumpkins were carved by Josh and Eliza this year, Ben just couldn't get into the "spirit" of things.

Band concert

At Ben's school concert, they played three "haunted" tunes, my favorite being The Phantom of the Opera. Notice how he's leaning into the bass drum. Hehe.

Cross Country Season and Soccer Champs!

Mounds State Park and Ball State U

"Wow, look at those mounds . . . "



Muncie, home to Ball State University, and Mounds State Park are not far from each other, so we thought we'd kill two birds with one stone. And squeeze a little geocaching in along the way. We are trying to expose the kids to area universities to give them a sense of what they are looking for. Ball State is known as a telecom university since David Letterman donated a largess into the program. They did have a pretty awesome art museum that we saw for about 10 minutes prior to their closing. Mounds State park is called Mounds because human created ancient mounds were found here that date back to 160 B.C. Sounds fascinating, right? Not so much. It's basically a nice state park with trails. The mounds are hills with fences around them--you can't even sled on them. We had a great day anyway, stopping off at a Farm and Fleet type store to show the kids just how "citified" they are.

A Day in The Windy City

While Grandpa and Steve were golfing, the kids and Grandma and I walked around Grant and Millennium Park.  Grandma Rosa just didn't get the idea that I wanted nice pictures with her and the grandkids.  That the kids might just want a nice picture with her and them.  We don't have any that I can think of.  We started out with her out of the picture entirely.  Then we moved on to everybody pose as if you are choking the guy next to you.  Then we worked up to a hug. And finally a nice one, but Eliza wasn't into smiling by this point.  

Also, we thought these three girls made for a fun scene.  I don't know who had more fun, them, or us!