Very creative

After I figured out what Cassie was making I thought how creative. She has been asking for a puppet stage for christmas a while now. We'll see christmas morning if she gets one or not, don't tell her.

Better be good...

You never know when you will get a card from santa saying he is watching you.

Snow

Here is the first snow of the winter the kids got to play in. Have you seen anyone mowing the snow before?

Cassie making snow angels.

Cassie little miss cheerleader

For the past 8 weeks Cassie has been going to a mini cheerleader camp every Monday and she has a good time. Last night was their last night so it was Parent's night and both Grandma's,mommy,daddy and Darren went to cheer her on. She did really well.

Christmas pictures

To keep up with tradition here is a sneek peak of our christmas pictures of my kids and my sister's too.

Lights at the Zoo

Cassie and some of her Daisy scout troop.

Darren on Santa's lap at the zoo.

Some of the lights at the zoo.

Cassie and her Daisy scout troop.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN--TRICK OR TREAT!!

The kids did really well this year and kept wanting more!!

Welcome our new niece TESSA!!

Here is our new niece Tessa Louise Shelley. She was born Monday October 27th (uncle Brian's bday also). She weighed 8lb and 14oz and was 20 1/2" long. All is doing well and Brian's parents are traveling this week to NY to visit her, pray for safe travels.

Preview of Halloween costumes

Ballerina witch

Skeleton pirate

Don't forget to look at there cool pumpkins too!

Do you believe in Ghosts?

So out of curiosity my friends and I went ghost hunting to a nearby bridge not far from work Saturday night. After reading stories about this bridge being haunted we thought why not see for ourselves. After arriving Saturday right at dusk it didn't seem scary as we thought. After while a few teenagers showed up too but we never did hear anything or really see anything except in our cameras. What a fun adventure and eerie at the same time. You can see some of the orbs I caught on my pictures but my one friend got some really cool pictures. Do you believe in ghosts?

Pumpkins

You can tell it is Fall when mom is making these beautiful pumpkin decorations.

Cassie's Kindergarten class

Fun with cousin Devin

We got to go down home and visit with family again and we got some cute pictures.

This one is the kids dancing and being goofy.

Cousins

Darren,Devin and Cassie enjoying their wagon ride @ Poppy Hiler's

Harvest Time!!

Both kids got to enjoy their first combine ride this past weekend. Both of them were asking for more.

9th wedding anniversary getaway!!

Brian and I got away this past weekend to a fun and relaxing weekend in Holmes County,Oh aka Amish Country.

Here is a picture of our beautiful cottage that I would highly recommend to people. The name is Premier Carriage House Cottages www.berlincabins.com

Here is a view of the jacuzzi tub,fireplace and living area.

Here is a view of the brand new custom built king sleigh bed with the dining area, the kitchen was behind when I took the picture. The cottage was fulling equipped even with a grill of the back. There was even a nice pool area and hot tub outside.

These are various pictures of some of the animals we saw @ Rolling Ridge Ranch just outside of Berlin.





All in all Brian and I loved our trip and are already talking about going back again. Next time the kids will go and enjoy all the sights we seen. We even did an Amish home tour which was cool cause you even learned some history of the Amish.

Cassie's picture day

Cassie had her school pictures taken this past Friday and here she is in her pretty new outfit with Mommy's anniversary flowers from Daddy. Yep we celebrated 9 years!!

Fun at the park!!

Today we went to Wildwood park for their pack the parks day. They had entertainment and fun activites for the kids. Obviously from the pictures you can tell they had a great time and were very easy to put to bed tonight. Actually Darren fell asleep on the floor it was the cutest thing.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hits TOLEDO,OH!!

Well me and the kids did it. We waited only 30 mins in line for the bus and then made our way down the street to see the new house being built for the Frisch family here in Toledo,OH. Here is the kids on the bus excited to see the house.

The house just framed in a couple hours and the second floor was being framed as we were leaving. There were so many workers around and the house is suppose to ready to furnish by 4pm Saturday. The project manager said they are about 3 hours behind at this point, so we will have to wait and see the final result in November when it is to air on TV.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hits TOLEDO,OH!!

How exciting to have them in town. The kids and I are going to make it down to the taping this week. The kids have been talking about it all week: MOVE THAT BUS!! The town has been buzzing ever since talk about this. The family must be very excited. They are truely blessed. Check out more footage and pictures @ http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=resources/traffic&id=6370425

Cassie's 1st day of Kindergarten

Bowling Green,OH Aug 16,2008