Pep Band Bassoon!

Friday night was pack the gym night. Here are Kayleigh, Rebecca, and Kelsey playing in the pep band. This coming Friday is Senior night.. :(

Oops!

Missed last week! I was practicing taking pictures in the snow. I have a Senior who wants pictures in the snow, but I'm not sure when that's going to happen!!

Pageant!

Lauren at the Miss Illinois County Fair pageant. Lauren is the daughter of one of my best friends, Joli. Kayleigh and I went to see her compete last night. I realize that I need to learn to use the manual settings on my camera. I got some decent pictures, but they could have been way better if I knew more about using my camera! Hopefully she made it into the top 15. She won't find out until this afternoon and then she can compete again tonight!

Week 2

I almost forgot to take a picture to post this week. It's been a busy one. We took Kayleigh to Augustana College in Rock Island yesterday for their departmental scholarship competition. While we were there, she decided that's where she wants to go to school next year. :) A big decision for her.

Rosemary in January?

So this is what my Rosemary plant looks like today... I don't think that's a good thing... A lot of the plants in my flowerbeds are green. I have a rosebush that is green right now and both of my Butterfly bushes too. My Lilac bush is also getting buds. My first photo post of the year!

Getting back to Blogging!

This morning I decided that even though I keep in touch with a lot of you on Facebook, I should still be keeping up with my blog. Since I have started to get more into my photography, I have decided that I want to try to post at least one photo a week on this blog. I realized earlier in the week that I haven't taken but one picture since Christmas. And it didn't work the way I wanted it to, but I will post it later anyway. I hope I still have blog followers! It would be nice to see some comments to let me know you are still with me!

Happy New Year!!

Random photo

Look at my little baby! He will be 11 on Wednesday! It's hard to believe he is growing up so fast. Friday night he actually played at the basketball game with the high school pep band. So both of my kids played. He plays the french horn.


I know I have been really bad about updating the blog. Kayleigh has so much going on and so do I, that it doesn't give me a lot of time to do much updating. I'll try to be better.

Homecoming

Also the first weekend of October was homecoming. So I went to Michigan alone and Erik and the kids stayed home. Kayleigh played in the band at the game and parade on Friday and then went to the dance with her friends on Saturday night. Marty came over to help her get ready and Erik was in charge of getting her there and home. She said she had a good time.

Alumni Banquet

The first weekend of October I went to my alumni banquet. It was my 25th year. I really enjoyed getting together with my high school "family" and catching up. This picture is from the alumni banquet. The people in the picture are all from my class. Some of whom I hadn't seen in 25 years!

Summer

Well, I haven't been keeping up on the blog. It seems like everyone is on Facebook, so I have been doing more with that. But I thought I should work on the blog a little bit. This picture is from our trip to Florida to see my family. This one was taken somewhere along our trip home when the kids were watching Coraline with the three D glasses on. We had a good trip, but of course it's never long enough. The week after we returned, Kayleigh started Marching band camp, and then had a parade that Saturday. Then another week or two and we were back to school. Harrison is 5th grade, which is Jr High in Havana, and Kayleigh is a sophomore. It's hard to believe.

Happy Birthday Kayleigh

Today is Kayleigh's 15th birthday. The top picture was taken when she was a few weeks old and in it are four generations. Me, my mom, my grandma and Kayleigh. The bottom is a picture of the cute cake that Sheridan made for her today. We are going out for Chinese tonight because that's what she wanted to do for her birthday dinner. Sometime soon, Erik will start teaching her to drive! I don't think I have the patience for it!!!

Camping

Last weekend we decided to pack up the RV and go camping. We went just a short distance to Jim Edgar Conservation area. They have a nice campground. Harrison really enjoyed himself. We took his bike and he rode around and met some friends on Friday. It started raining Friday night and continued Saturday. We decided that it was just better to pack up and go home instead of paying for another night at a campground that's 15 minutes from our house. So we just hung out around the house for the rest of the weekend. It was a good first camping trip in the RV.