End of summer

Here’s some current pictures. These pretty much sum up our whole Labor Day. It was the last day of vacation for the kids (and parents) so we wanted to fill it with stuff they like to do.

Last Day of Summer Vacation!

It’s hard to believe that summer is already over. The house is pretty vacant now, kind of like an empty nest. The kids are in school, when Becky isn’t in class she’s volunteering at the hospital, and Jere is either at work, at class, or at basketball (woohoo!). If you call and we don’t pick up… it’s because nobody is home! ;)

The first week back was long for everyone. Ashlee wanted to stay home from school on Friday because she was too tired. Speaking to other parents at school, this seemed to be a common Friday morning theme last week. Nick I think is enjoying the fact that all of his closest friends are in the same class this year (as opposed to only 1 last year). I thought this was a good thing at first when I left him the first day of school sitting at a table with all his buddies. Then I got to thinking the rest of the day and decided I’d be kind of scared to have to teach those 8 or so boys all at once! Becky is still trying desperately to get into a section of chemistry. And as for me… it seemed like there were 8 work days in this 4 day work week. When’s Thanksgiving break!

Another ty.com alert!

Hopefully most of you received an email recently about Ashlee’s submission in the Make My Beanie contest at ty.com. She drew up a beanie and submitted it. The top vote getters will have their beanie actually made for them. We’re trying to get her as much votes as possible. You can vote once per day. Please head on over to her submission page and cast your vote!

Ashlee\'s beanie baby Dashes

(And please remember to vote again tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that…)

Ballerina

Lots of pictures lately. Here’s my next effort in trying to catch up. This is Ashlee’s dance recital that she performed last year in June. She’s planning on picking up ballet again this fall and she’s pretty excited. When asked why ballet instead of soccer this fall, she replied, “Because I have a lot of leotards that I haven’t used in a long time!”

Dance Recital

And even though I usually post these on Picasa Web Albums, I really love Flickr. I tend to post pictures there more often than I do on Picasa. Here is Becky’s & mine photostream. In order to see all the pictures on our photostream (as in the pictures of family and stuff), join Flickr and add us as a contact. Personal pictures we’ve only made viewable to family and friends.

Alert!

For a limited time only… Ashlee has been ‘published’ of a sort. She made a video and submitted it to ty.com (the beanie baby website). It’s titled binie babby partty, By: ashlee. If you head to their main page, it will show up in the main window at the top of the middle section. You may get a couple of flash adds and stuff. Just click ‘skip’ until you get to the ‘featured video playlist’. Her’s is usually the second one listed. She was so excited today when she went to the website and saw her video was up. She’ll yelled, “My party is on!”

Diabetes walk

I uploaded these photos awhile ago, but I’m just now getting to posting them. August is just nasty at work every year, even for those of us that aren’t going out to cover football two-a-days. Anyway, these are all pictures from our diabetes walk that we did last September.

JDRF 2007

Wow, that almost took a full year to get posted! I know you’re all waiting for those Halloween pictures from last year. They’ll be here soon (hopefully before this year’s Halloween).

The new Christmas list

So, we did the list this year and everyone got Josh.

No really, the present limit is $20. Except for Chris.

So, this years results (In “Person 1 got – Person 2” format). And the winners are…

Jere – Justin

Becky – Leah

Melissa – Will

Justin – Chris

Laurie – Stephen

Will – Andrea

Trish – Melissa

Catherine – Trish

Chris – Josh

Leah – Laurie

Josh – Becky

Andrea – Jere

Stephen – Catherine

Thanks for playing folks!

Please send all presents and/or money to:

161 Silver Bugle Dr.

Camp Verde, AZ 86322

I’m Josh Freeman and I approve this message.

Comic-Con

So Melissa was able to get comp tickets for Comic-Con because she is in the media. . I got to go because I was flying in. I have never seen so many interesting people. I visited the Marvel booth, you’re welcome Jere and Matt, as well as the LEGO booth. I took some pictures but I don’t have the correct adapter to transfer them to my computer so those are coming. All in all, it was a neat experience. One I probably won’t do again.

Calling All Spidey Fans-

This is the moment you’ve been waiting for!
Casting for several roles for the new Broadway musical Spider-Man (featuring music by Bono and The Edge) will take place in NYC on July 28. So all you boys and girls who can sing and have ever wanted to get paid for playing Spidey or Mary Jane, now’s your chance! Just be prepared to sing 16 bars or a pop/rock song that shows your singing range.
Seriously, I’m not making this up. Auditions will be held from 10a-5p at The Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, NYC, NY.
Break a leg Jere!

Sword Seminar

I’m trying to get caught up a little with posting pictures and stuff. So, I know these are a little bit older, but they were next ones up. Nick attended a sword seminar for karate way back last fall. Those of you who know me well enough will know that I think it’s pretty cool that the little guy is learning some weapons, especially swords. Dual wield even. Swords FTW!

Sword Seminar