Life is an endless Developmental process. We all have unique Abilities and Disabilities. The Day we choose Awareness instead of ignorance, is the DAY we start to see everyone as equal. Gary Spears, DSP



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Various Pictures over the months

I figured if I can't keep up with the journal part of blogging, at least I can pull some pictures off the computer at work and have SOME of the memories. They are ALL out of order, but at least they're here. I'll add more as I find them as well. Good thing I am taking them from my work computer, if I was home, there'd be thousands to upload, I'd be overwhelmed, and it would NEVER get done. So here we go. 

This obviously Christmas this year. Visiting Santa & Mrs Claus at Wegmans. Best Santa ever. He was amazing with the boys. 

Her is Courtney's Cross Country team photo from September. She joined them and was able to get her Varsity letter D! So proud of her :) 

This is from Spirit week. Day 1 was America day. Red/white and Blue. She actually made that scarf from an old T-shirt. I was proud of her. Then she has on her Depew Jacket from tennis 2 years ago. 


This is Courtney's homecoming hair. BEAUTIFUL isn't it?? Everyone thought she had extensions. Nope, this is natural amazingly thick hair. So pretty. My friend Tracy did this for us. She's so darn talented. 

Mike and I on Halloween, We went to our first ever dress up party. Ton of Fun. I created a flapper costume and Mike was Mobster. 

Here we are , full pose. I wish you could see my tights, they were fishnet and so cute and comfortable actually! I think because there were cotton, instead of nylon



Yes, Mya really was sleeping with Colin like this. Talk about spoiled right? She didn't even flinch when I took the picture. upside down, legs up, head on the pillow. She could have been drooling too. 

Caden's new thing is Mya sitting on him. Too funny. I love this kids eyes. they are amazing. 

The plus side of having special needs kiddos? They get to be in the same class, even though they are 5 & 7 and in Kindergarten and 2nd grade! SO,, I get to be able to be on one field trip for both of them!! Yay. We went to Kelkenburg Farm in Akron in October. It was funny, we even ran into a group from Gateway, Caden & Col's old teachers!! they were so happy to see the boys. They hadn't had Caden in 3 year, and his first Ever teacher Mrs Liz was there, so that was really neat. 

We went on a horse/wagon ride to the patch and got to pick our own pumpkins off the vine. 

Homecoming 2012 - doesn't she look gorgeous?? Have to add, she bought that dress in July, on clearance for $20 with her own money!! 

Back to Spirit week. Class color day. C/O 2015 is orange. She did 2015 nails and wore the class shirt.




This one here is the First day of school. 

This is spirit week - Princess day. That's my tiara from my wedding. 

Homecoming - This is Tyler, Courtney's first boyfriend :) He was a nice kid, but they only "dated" for 2 weeks. they never talked/texted or hung out. Went to the movies once and didn't talk the entire time. She broke up with him. He won't even look at her now. Poor kid.

Halloween. I made the chicken & Carrot costume. Courtney was a bumble bee again.

This is from August probably. We went out with our neighbors to spend some time at their land. Corey took them all on a 4 wheeler ride. I couldn't believe how much Colin loved it!! Courtney was able to even spend the night there. Fun times 
OH - Guess what this is? The pond behind the house!! Yep, no rain for a couple summers = no pond and grass grows! It was so weird. It was still soft in some sports. Caden actually fell IN and got stuck the week before this. It was kinda funny. 

The Carrot costume


The Chicken costume. I think this is my all time favorite 


Christmas 2012 - Love. Just took this 5 days ago. 

My amazing dad turned 60 July 21st this year. Cheryl decided to throw him a surprise Party. It was HARD work, but so worth it. He was quite surprised. Love

In order to conserve water this summer, we invested in a rain barrel. It's awesome! We were able to water all of our plants with the water from it all summer. 

The McDonald Siblings. From Dads Party.
Uncle Clyde, My Dad Ray, Aunt Karen, Uncle Jack.

My dad's gift. Thirty One Littles carry all, saying 60 bites, and YES, there are 60 peanut butter cups in there

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