snippets

Kindergarten artwork

Here's Peter's

Some more of his artwork

Sleepovers at Grandma & Grandpa's house. 

Grandma Paula found this large cardboard box with has provided hours of fun for the kids

Paulina helping with yard work.

It looks like Autumn but these are last years leaves

The girls showing off their Unite Concert T shirts

The Paint & Pour at SSA

A very fun evening of trivia with friends at Saint Catherine's

8th grade retreat

Sunday's at Grandma & Grandpa's

Floor Hockey

Mikey and his friend Silas are on the Green Stars this year

Mikey playing goalie

this week

Mateo rolling dough that he made in Atrium class which we baked into bread.

Mary & Rita have been staying with us this week while their parents are enjoying a business vacation in Hawaii. They sent us a photo of themselves and I think it was the happiest I have ever seen them :)

It worked out well because the kids have been enjoying it too

Maria and the other girls really enjoyed a trip to the Jewish Holocaust Museum, if I can use the term "enjoyed". The highlight of the visit was the time they spent with Henry a very spry Jewish Holocaust  survivor 91 years "young". He and his family were taken to a concentration camp when he was 16 years old. His parents, along with many others, were killed immediately but he was forced to work there for 4 years till the camp was liberated by American forces. Amazingly, his 2 brothers also survived and live in New York City.

you've come a long way baby

I scanned a few photographs from Maria's first summer up north back in 1999

She was finally getting a little meat on her bones at this point!

I always loved this photo of Maria & Mommy yawning at the same time

The baby and her baby sister

future boy band?