Party of 8

Just in case I was wondering......my sofa seats 8.

Just a random photo of the kids ...... glad that everyone is getting along.

Trevor, Ben, Amanda, Jake, Hannah, Sarah, Jordan (in front) and Jocelyn.

Snow, Snow and MORE Snow

We have officially had 67 inches of snow this season, as of last Thursday!

School has been cancelled 3 times. Twice for snow and once for the cold.

Did we move to the North Pole ??????

Amanda and Kendall enjoying the snow on one of our "school's closed" days.
snow monkeys
swingin'
Chillin' on our day off! :)

You Bettcha!

Yep, You Bettcha !! We Won.

Score 42-24

Amanda, Jake, and Hannah after the game. I think that we won because Amanda brought her big brother (and his girlfriend) along as a good luck charms...
Yeah, I don't know anything about that....
Hmmmm ....I think that I'll just reach in here and smack that ball right away from you....
No pictures please.......

Two more games to go until the season is over.

TWIRP - Jacob

Jake's group went to Hannah's house for dinner before the TWIRP dance.

(Jake was, of course, asked to the dance by Hannah)

Here are a few photos from his evening...

Photo shoot was at Hannah's house before dinner.
This one is out of place...it was actually taken after the dance and on the way out the door to the "after" party. Jake with Kyle (and a bunch of other friends) stopped home to change.

Another Jake and Hannah photo.
Jake's friends - Jordan and the cat (they stayed home) Hannah, Jake, Sarah, Trevor, Ashley and Dan. How do you like all the color coordination?
the girls...
the guys...

Hannah's Mom did a great job of getting the guys flowers pinned to their shirts- it was almost impossible! The flowers were so heavy and the shirts so thin that they kept flopping over.

TWIRP = History
Another "last" for Jake in his senior year.

TWIRP - Amanda

Last Saturday night was the big TWIRP ... aka Turnabout or Sadie Hawkins dance. I forget what each of the letters stands for.... The Woman Is Responsible for Paying ??? (or something like that).

Here are a few photos from Amanda's evening. She and her friends decided to go without "dates" this time around. They had a blast!

Amanda and Kendall at Louise's restaurant, where they had dinner.
With Jocelyn in the car on the way to the dance.
The group that went together.
Pizza for dinner !
Group photo at the restaurant.
After the dance...

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My daughter told me that it's "dumb" when I post without photos - so here is a photo!

An oldie, but a goodie...

This is Craig - in his catering days. Some years back, he came down for a couple of summers, stayed with Gramma and Grampa, and worked for the Zilli's. I am convinced this inspired him to finish college...

I kept thinking about grilling out last week when the temperature went up to the 40's.

Changed my mind when it dropped below zero again.

Travis and Nick are probably shaking with flashbacks to their catering days right now.

I have to note for all of the former "grill kings" that all grills are now propane and on wheels!

I might just dig my grill out from under all of the snow one of these days and pretend that it is Spring.

A record and a week gone by...

We set some kind of record around here last Tuesday when it went from a "spring like" 46 degrees at 3 in the afternoon to -9 by 1 a.m. In honor of this accomplishment - we got the day off of school on Wednesday due to the cold. The wind chill temperature ran anywhere from -35 to -50 degrees. Little too cold for my liking, thank you very much........but the day off was nice.

Other than that, I have been kept busy by the middle school gym teachers - they keep calling in sick and I keep going in for them. Works for me. Have whistle will travel.

This past Saturday was the big TWIRP dance - photos to follow.

Sunday was Hannah's birthday, Alexa's birthday, Tara's birthday and of course, the Super Bowl.
"Happy Birthday" to all 3 and way to go Giants!

Throw in one night of custodian duty and one night of scoring basketball games and that's all folks! Anothe week gone by.....

Wow.