Emme and Nono Wedding

Just wanted to share some of the photos from my parents wedding day!!  They have not changed a bit!!!

Click here to see all the pictures from their wedding album!

Cousin Heather visits!! '13

My cousin Heather from NJ came our for a quick visit!  How AWESOME!!  It was the BEST to be able to visit with her!!  We got to meet each others kids and actually get to know them and each other!  Her sister in law ran the Madison Marathon so we got to go see the runners cross the finish line!!  Super Great visit!!  THANK YOU SOOOO much for coming to see us!!

Trick or Treat and all that '13

We did a couple pumpkin patches this year.  Corn mazes, hot chocolate, caramel apples and haunted houses!!  All the good stuff!!

These guys did a bang up job on their pumpkin carving!!

We attended our neighbors annual adult costume party.  We are going to have to amp up our costumes as it's been a few years since we have won any prizes!  We had fun as the cowpoke folks!!

Kids did their trick or treating and got their allotment of candy which got us through the to till the Christmas candy started arriving!!

I am still not sure what Chris was dressed as ....

Click here to see all the photos from the pumpkin patches and more.

BNG United Soccer Tournement '13

Acacia is on a new soccer team this year.  It's a team made up of girls from three different towns.  Belleville, New Glarus and Oregon.  They now play on a full regulation sized soccer field with 11 players.  This has been such a great opportunity for Acacia.  She is playing positions that for the past few years she was not able to.  They went to their first tournament and had to play up an age group (14 year olds).  They were also in a bracket of 7 instead of 4.  They came in second over all.  This was the first time some of these girls had even gone to a tournament so making it to the playoffs was a huge accomplishment.

I took a few photos of all the girls together at the award ceremony and in the soccer net.  I did not post them all here but if you want to see them click this link.  If you would like me to send you any files just let me know which ones and I'll be happy to send them to you.

Click here to see a slideshow of all the pictures of the team.

New Schools for Everyone '13

This year Acacia enters 7th grade.  Middle school!  She walks across the golf course to and from school!  She is still doing soccer, violin and the flute.  So far, even with her tween attitude she has managed to make a positive impression on her teachers and reports so far are stellar!!

Chris enters 5th grade.  In Oregon that means the Intermediate School.  He has no interest in any sport or music.  His passion remains in electronics and art.  But, he too is doing very well in all classes and is making new friends!  This is Chris' first year to have a locker.  They only get 3 minutes between classes.  This to me just does not seem possible.  But, it's working!

 

 

Quick Emme Visit '13

Acacia spent a few weeks on the east coast with Emme and Nono this summer.  They spend a week at the Berg's house and then another couple weeks in NC.  Auntie Valerie took them to see Oklahoma and Nono let them drive around on golf carts!!  Emme flew home to Madison with Acacia and spent a few days doing whatever the kids wanted to do.  This included mini golf, bowling, MANY board games, movies, shopping and more.  Since I spent most of this time working I have no proof that they did any of this stuff!  But, they said they did and they were all smiling a lot!!  Thanks for a great visit Emme!!  We love you!!

 

Faglioni's Visit '13

Aunt Kelly had some work to do here in the Madison area so she brought Tyler and Mitchell up to chill with Chris!

 

 

We went to the Farmers Market for fresh sweet corn and that evening went to see a local baseball game - The Madison Mallards.

 

Tyler has far surpassed his Mom ... vertically anyway.

 

And Mitchell creeps closer and closer.  Now, at age 8 it will not be long before his feet are bigger than his Mom's too!