Crafty Ladies!

Every year on the day after Thanksgiving the girls in my family spend the day at the Maryland Christmas Show in Frederick, Maryland.  We spend the day looking at the crafts, then have dinner and shop some more!!  

Fun times!!

Another Teenager in the House!!

Last week Charlie celebrated his 13th Birthday!!!  I can't believe it!!  Now we've got 2 teenagers in the house.....lookout!!

The pix isn't the best, because I forgot my camera....this is from my phone!

I love you so much buddy, and am proud of the person you are.

Hope you LOVE being 13!!

A Day in DC!!!

Last weekend, we spent a day with some good friends in DC.  We've been friends FOREVER...literally.  Now they live in NC, so we only see each other a couple of times a year. It was a fun time!

Love these two people!!!

The Capitol.

The Washington Monument.

The Air & Space Museum.

These two have known each other their ENTIRE lives...how cool is that?

Love this pix!

How much fun can you have with a statue??

Little Buddy & the Moon Landing!

"I'm just a Bill on Capitol Hill!"

(Dont you just love School House Rock??)

The Supreme Court Building.

The Library of Congress.

Hershey Park Happy!

I'm backtracking just a bit here...on Labor Day we spent the day at Hershey Park with some old friends of ours.  We had tons of fun...if you've never been to HP...you must go...it's our favorite amusement park!!

Feeding the ducks!???

(We came all this way and they wanted to stop and feed the ducks!  It kind of reminded me of when we've gone to Disney World and they want to wait in line to get autographs!!)

Duck butt!!  (The kids all thought this was hysterical!)

Tree Huggers!

The Champ & his buddy had to ride in front!

The Storm Runner....Charlie with his hands up...crazy kid!!

Cool boys!!

Sweet girls.....

The thrill of victory!!! 

(He won this on his first try!!!! Can you believe it??)

The agony of defeat!  :(  

(I don't know what was worse....the fact that he didn't win, or the fact that his brother did.)

Don't worry, we hugged him up and made him feel better.

There's always the next time...right??

Happy Birthday Honey!!!!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Brian. It's from our Outer Banks vacation last year and he's holding baby Evan.

Thanks for being my best friend.

Happy Birthday!!!!

I love you.

For the Fam -- Howe Pool Party 2008

Hello Everyone~

This post is for the family. I am finally posting pictures from the Howe Pool Party from a couple of weekends ago. My Uncle and Aunt from Pennsylvania, have a pool in their backyard. This side of my family is the "Penn State Crew" About 10 years ago, they started having an annual pool party. This year all of my Aunts, Uncles, cousins, parents, siblings, and their children were there. In fact we had everyone there except for my one sister and her husband. I think that is the closest we've come to having 100% attendance!! My Uncle even invited all of his (and my Mom's) cousins....so I guess that'd make them my second cousins....(I never understood what the right terminology is.) It was a lot of fun. For years my kids were the only little ones there...but now, most of my cousins are having babies. It is so neat to see how the family continues to grow. Thanks for a great time, Harry & Yo!

We'll see you all again next Summer!