On Top Of Spaghetti........

..... the dining room is covered with cheese. Emily was a little more than enthusiastic when shaking the Parmesan cheese. Sadly she didn't realize that the lid was not securely closed. She had it in her milk, on everyones plate, in the flowers, on the floor, on the server and the piano.

She cried, I laughed, Jeremy vacuumed.

October/November

These pictures are for Jill. Who has never seen my house a mess. To some this is nothing, but to me it is hard to look at. This is the kitchen, dirty dishes and all.

Dining room table that we couldn't eat at for 4 days.

Living room. This is after the 7 loads of laundry was folded and most of it put away. Christmas bins just waiting to be emptied.

More bins waiting to be gone through. But, hey the tree is up & has the lights and garland on it!

Jeremy caught in the act of putting the star on the tree. It's a start.

On December 2, the kids and I attended an awards dinner for JDRF. Emily received an award for being a youth ambassador this year.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday we went to Traverse City. It was a great break with lots of rest and family time. We just missed the tree lighting but had a nice lady take a family picture of us.

One fun tradition our two high schools have is a that they come together for the 3 junior highs and perform. At the end the two drumlines have a drum off. Our drum line totally rocked!! I wish I had better pictures of what our line had on. There was a brief break before they came on so our kids did a quick outfit change. Mott came out in their uniforms and Kettering came out in all black with black bandana's. They looked like a gang of thugs. They won the drum off hands down.

Jeremy earned his Tenderfoot and Second Class rank in Boy Scouts. This part always make me nervous. The boys pin a special mothers pin on their moms for helping them reach their next rank. Jeremy looks like he is taking joy in this but, he has never stuck me.

October saw both kids level up karate. Emily is seen here with Master Joe on the left and Grand Master Saffold on the right. We are so proud of both kids for their hard work and dedication.

Jeremy earned his second stripe on his purple belt.

Emily earned her red belt. Her goal is to earn her black belt by her 16th birthday.

Halloween at our house was interesting. We didn't go out for candy instead we went out to dinner and watched a movie.

Emily took way to much enjoyment in carving her pumpkin. She had the evil laugh to go with it.

This is obviously Emily's pumpkin. Twilight was on her mind.

Jeremy took his time carving his pumpkin. He wanted a rocker look. and I think he acheived a drunk rocker look.