2008 Christmas photos

Christmas News....

Have a Happy Birthday Suzie!!!! That's an ORDER!

Hope you have a good one!!!

2008 Christmas Feast at the Chews

The 2008 Feast is set to start at 5:30pm on Friday December 26th

Appetizers

~CROSTINI~

Choice of Smoked duck or tomato chevre

~CRAB CAKES~

Maryland style jumbo lump crab cakes with dipping sauce

~CHEESE LOVERS PLATE~

Assorted international cheese with raisins and Spanish almonds

Dinner

~SMOKED GOOSE~

Fruit wood smoked goose

served on buttermilk biscuits

with horseradish and cranberries

~GUMBO~

Louisiana style gumbo

Chicken or seafood

~ETOUFFEE~

Fruit smoked chicken with tarragon cream sauce

crayfish optional

~Dessert~

Potluck - bring your favorite to share

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC SCHMERICK!!

happy birthday to you...happy birthday to you...HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ERIC...happy birthday to you!!!


Hope you have a great bday :)

Caleb is now dressing himself in the morning, what a time saver. ( I think)

And since there was a clamor to see more pictures of Jack, here he is. Josh and Anna are stand-ins.

OK, I'm finished now...

Our school celebrates Veterans Day!

I wish I could include pictures of my kids. We sang "God Bless America" for the program and we rocked the house! We had presenters come in and spend the day teaching our kids about military life and sacrifice. Of course we had a Marine officer in dress blues too!! OOOOORAH! Our school of 1000 was covered in patriotic art work...it was beautiful!

Per your request Suzie :)

Some recent photos of Alyssa enjoying the college life....hmmmm...where are the pictures of reading, studying and homework?? This looks like too much fun!!

The new dollar bill

Start looking for the new dollar bills to come out soon.

FYI

I have decided to disconnect our home phone since we rarely use it. SO don't be alarmed if you try calling and it's already been disconnected.

you can reach me on my cell from now on....

Happy 40th Birthday Kristi!!!!

I did have a very nice bday, thanks to all for the cards, flowers and so on...the day really did feel special, even though I'm old.

This is what Stan called the Birthday Alter...ready and waiting for me to come home. He also made the bday card - 5 pages long, including pictures of us, funny captions and a lovely poem on the last page...oh yeah and it was fastened together with ribbons.

Notice the wrapping job...hmmm - is that duck tape?

Carrot cake cupcakes...yummy

EAT A PIECE OF CAKE FOR ME!!!!!

New Job number.......I'v lost count!

Here's my new classroom...Yep, back to teaching at a school right near home. John and Beth did my door!! Thank the Lord cause I certainly didn't have the time or the talent to do it! I'm teaching Pre-K again.

The kids were so perfect for the first week, I felt depressed. I told Steve, "Anyone could teach these kids...what am I supposed to do all day?" Then one of my little darlings had a melt down and kicked me, and spit in my face. I said AMEN!!, I CAN stay here--there's work for me to do. What a relief.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JUDY!!

woo hooo, yipppie - Hope you have a good one!!

The boys turn out.

Alright, so now it is the boys turn. Josh and I went to Virginia on a revolutionary war scouting mission. Above is a picture of the reconstructed siege earth works that were put up by the rebel Americans at Yorktown.

Here is Josh below the freedom monument at Yorktown put up in 1881. It  celebrates the victory where General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington in 1781, although fighting went on for another year.

From there it is to the 301- acre Colonial Williamsburg where Josh took this picture of the craftsmanship of the blacksmith that kept his attention for 30 minutes. Also as part of the admission we went thru the Governors Palace, the Capital, Public-Gaol (jail), gunsmith, and a few other buildings including the church which is still in use today. We also went to Jamestown for a short tour.

And since we are this close, we went to the ocean at Virginia Beach to swim. This was a first for Josh swimming and being thrown about by the ocean waves. Did I also mention I was able to get a speeding ticket? The Camry is faster then you think, I guess.

Introducing Jack

Here is our newly adopted Vizsla. They can be highly sociable when brought up around people, and are good pointing dogs for hunting.

And its a good thing for us that we have 4 kids to tire out one puppy.

So Caleb is feeling a little left out and will stop at nothing to recover his rightful spot as the baby and sole attention winner. 

New job?

I think all of us would like to hear how Judy's new job is going and this is the perfect place for an update....JUDY????

Look Uncle Stan ! ! !

Because some of us want to be more than a Princess.

Sorry, just had to share this one. Training to run at Parris Island in February and I need some good ole Marine Corps motivation.

Here are a few pictures from the girls trip to Monterey California all by themselves without the boys. I heard they had a blast.

                         You'll like it, it's reeeeaalllly                     Gooooooooddd.