Annual Halloween Party

These are some pictures from Gens & Betty's annual Halloween Party.  Thanks to Betty & Monica for taking these.  My camera is broken but will be replaced soon I hope.

Gene & Betty the host & hostess of the party,

Daniel & Dylan as Monkeys

Ron I guess came as a Dover fan lol

Monica and Haley stopped by after Haley's dance at school the rest of the them were home sick.

A hippie, Donald Duck, and a monkey walk into a room......

Mom & Melinda (The hippie & the hairdresser)

Mom's full costume. This was a good one.

Mom, Gene, and Melanie

Mom & Betty (Olive Oil)

Me in a body bag (NCIS I'm ready to be an extra lol)

Me & Emilie on our way into the party

Melinda & Melanie in the background

Melanie the cat

Logan (great makeup)

Logan & Corrine

Haley aka Donald Duck

Gene (Popeye) & Ron

Gene & his boys

Emilie

Dylan: Welcome to the party!

Dylan the Monkey

Justin & Alexis

Danielle & Daniel

Daniel the Monkey

Corrine

Betty & Melanie

April the Good Witch

Alexis as Emo Girl



Emilie's 17th Birthday Party

These are pictures from Emilie's 17th Birthday Party a few months back.  She knew we were throwing her a party but what she didn't know was that while she was at school the day before I went a state over to pick up her older sister Elizabeth so that she could be here for her sister.  They don't get to see each other very often so it was great that we could do this for her.  Surprising her with her sister was hard to do and I think she had an idea of what was going on because of the questions she keep asking the closer we got to the party. We all had a great time. The picture on the cake Emilie drew herself.

All the kids who came to the party.

The Cake

Emilie, Her sister Elizabeth behind her, and all her friends

Blake "More icing Uncle Gene"

Not sure what's going on here but Gene seems very amused lol

Tyler skating

Tyler Cheesing it

How low can you go?

The 3 Amigo's Haley, Miranda, & Emily

Emilie, April, & Miranda skating

Haley & Miranda (Oh and Emily in the back) lol

What grandma Pineapple yum

I love my grandma she feeds me fruit!

I love having the private parties because no one else is there but our party. Awesome!

Chloe, Corrine, and Jacob

Go Chloe Go!

Getting Started

Hello Everyone! This is a new blog for our family so below are some pics over the last few years for an update of what it is we have all been doing. More current pictures are to come in the near future. Hope you all enjoy our blog.

This is David & I when he graduated from Cincinatti University in 2008. He actually graduated on the weekend of our first anniversary.  We got to take the kids with us so they all got to see him.

This is April & I on David & I's wedding day 12/13/2007.  Some people find it hard to believe that we got married in jeans & t-shirts.  We wanted the wedding to be simple. We wanted to get married the way we feel comfortable, and we are just jeans & t-shirts people. So that's the way we went. Notice that April & David both have their eyes shut in these pictures.  For David that's typical....lol

This is the 3 kids when we all went to the Outer Banks in 2008.

April in the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island in the OBX 2008.

Tyler at the beach house we rented at the OBX 2008.  The pineapple has something to do with the show Psych that we watch on USA.

Emilie on the beach for the first time ever in the OBX 2008. We met Emilie in 2007.  Her & April met in the 7th grade they have been best friends since the beginning.  From the first time she spent the night with us she was an unoffical member of the family. This past March 2010 her mother signed papers giving us full custody of her making her an offical family member. We love her as if she was one of our own from the beginning.

David, Tyler, & I went to an Indians game.  The boys right before the fireworks started.

These are our 2 cats: Angel (on the left) and Louie (on the right).

April before her winter homecoming dance last year (2009).

Emilie before her winter homecoming dance last year (2009). 

Emilie in her JROTC uniform (2009)

April after her first choir concert last year (2009).

These are just a few of our pictures since we became a family in 2007.  I will be uploading more current photos soon.  The kids school pictures just came in & we will be getting family pictures soon as well.