september 2- september 8

September 2- Kira had homework to do while we were in Syracuse. She was not a happy camper.

September 3- Lunch on the pike. Or is that dessert on the pike??

September 4- Kira got to practice opening the lock for her locker. She did good.

September 5- Covering her school books that will be at home. Takes me back.

September 6-Way too early to be up for the start of the day.

September 7- Alex left his friends in the front seat to keep me company today.

September 8- Drinking his milk at Texas Roadhouse.

august 26- september 1

August 26- Kids on the computers having a good time.

August 27- First day of school for Alex and Kira. Alex is going into first grade and Kira into sixth grade.

August 28- My little rose of sharon bush in the front flower bed has finally produced a flower!! Took it long enough.

August 29- New clocks for the kids rooms- Pokeballs.

August 30- The power company was here to trim some limbs over hanging the lines today. Wish they could have taken the trees totally out.

August 31- Driving to Syracuse for the long weekend. Taking two cars so daddy can help grandpa paint his house.

September 1- Nana demonstrating at the NYS Fair. Fun seeing Kira's dresses on display.

july 15- july 21

July 15- Kira hanging in Nana's pool chair.

July 16- Driving to Maine to hang with my twin!

July 17- Raining all day turns into this amazing sunset on the lake. Beautiful!

July 18- Saying goodbye to the lake.

July 19- Hanging at Aunt Joellen's pool.

July 19- Kira's Webkinz cat standing up sleeping. There are a few glitches on Webkinz World.

July 20- Driving home from Syracuse. Lovely traffic in Massachusetts.

July 21- Doesn't take long for the toys to return to the desk!!

july 1- july 7

July 1- Put the IKEA furniture together to redo the playroom for the kids. Lots of storage for not a ton of money. I am quite happy.

July 2- Went to see "Ted" It was okay. Not my kind of humor I guess.

July 3- Nana and Papa took the kids to the Corning glass factory again this year. Alex did so good as he knew exactly what he wanted to do. He created a beautiful wind chime.

July 4- Happy Independence Day!!

July 5- Cleaning of Alex's room.

July 6- Tried out Telly's in Epping. Pretty darn good food.

July 7- Cleaning of Kira's room. Had to get everything off the floor so the carpet could be cleaned.

june 24- june 30

June 24- Happy Birthday Kira. Time for her Syracuse birthday party with friends and family.

June 25- After party balloons. They always fall so fast.

June 26- Kira and her lovely nails done by Linda. Looking good this year! She has been growing her talons out very nicely.

June 27- Walmart fun for us. Picked up a carpet cleaner of our very own. Only took 12 years of home ownership for us to make the purchase!!

June 28- IKEA!! Heaven on earth. Must go back.

June 29- Organizing kids movies. One is full of Disney movies and the other holds kids movies. Love that all those boxes are no longer hanging around!

June 30- Swimming at Lynda's house for Nikki's college graduation party.

June 30- Three of my favorite people in the world.

june 17- june 23

June 17- Kira trying to take pictures of all her Webkinz for a contest on the site. We didn't get the photo entered but it is still a cute shot.

June 18- Kira at her annual check up acting so darn silly. Love this girl.

June 19- Momma and her ducklings crossed the road in front of our house, jumped off the retaining wall (some ducklings a little more gracefully than others) and trotted across the driveway to the neighbors backyard to the wetlands behind the yard.

June 19- I think daddy is totally enjoying buying all this super hero stuff for Alex.

June 20- Ran to the school when we realized that we had left Kira's saxophone on the last day of school! oops

June 21- One of Alex's new favorite shows- Octonauts.

June 22- Hanging out at Friday's waiting to eat. She has some of the cutest expressions.

June 23- Driving to Syracuse. Love our E-Z Pass!

march 1- march 5

March 1- Well look at that, winter decided to stop in and mess up our plans to drive to Syracuse for the weekend. Looks like a foot of snow to me. Our poor tree bending because of the weight. Not gonna miss that when we take it down.

March 2- Driving to Syracuse and eating at Burger King for lunch. Look at that pretty princess! Such a goof.

March 3- Eating dinner at Tully's in Fairmount. That is Alex's hand reaching into our first helping of popcorn (we ended up having three).

March 3- This will be the main picture for that day. The above one will be an extra I squeeze into a smaller spot on the week. Great picture of the gang.

March 4- Driving home from Syracuse. Alex playing his DS and getting help with the game with his new book. He saw the camera and made his cheesy grin. So funny.

March 5- At the library while Kira is in Girl Scouts. Alex spent some time tracing/ drawing Pokemon characters. He's so serious when he is drawing.