Thanksgiving in Southport

While Jim and I visited Nana/Pops in Indianapolis, the girls took the Amtrak and had turkey with Grammie/Grampie and Brook/Alice in Southport. They even ventured into NYC with the "little girls" and Auntie Lynne and had lunch at Lombardis and shopped for scarves in Chinatown!

For Boston!!

Parent's Weekend: September 2009
After BC beat Wake Forest at the football game we all went to dinner at a lovely little Italian restaurant in the North End. Sarah, Emily and Laura each had a sibling and parents in attendance and it was a BLAST! After dinner we walked over to Mike's Pastry where we waited in line for the last cannoli of the evening. Yummy! Hard to believe that the girls are juniors and next year will be their last as BC students!

Is that another lighthouse?

We met Mike/Sheila, Jim/Connie and Susan/Dan in downtown Chicago for a little reunion. Everyone has been so busy that we haven't all been together since the Super Bowl in 2008. We started out with a girls visit to Grosse Pointe Light Station in Evanston. I have driven past this lighthouse many times but never realized it was even there on Sheridan Road north of downtown. The trees are all grown up now. But, we were able to climb to the top on an iron spiral staircase and had a beautiful view of Lake Michigan and downtown.

College Graduate Heads to DC!!

I am off on vacation to visit my parents in Connecticut. We're going to see my daughter who has just moved to Washington, DC upon her graduation from college. I can't wait to see her new apartment and workplace. It will make it easier to visualize her life each day. We're taking my Dad to see the WWII Memorial and also Arlington. I always feel very patriotic every time I visit Washington.

Did a camel really walk across Australia?

At the beginning of the school year I take pictures of the PV staff with their favorite books. These images are sent to the AEA where they're made into READ posters. This has been really popular and most of the staff post their pictures in their classrooms. I had my husband take my photo last year when we were in Australia.

Is that a cherry on a spoon?

Had a wonderful visit to Minneapolis for shopping and sight-seeing! In the background is the famous outdoor sculpture "Spoonbridge and Cherry" by Claes Oldenburg the same artist who created the "Crusoe Umbrella" at
Nollen Plaza in Des Moines.

Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone gets to have some fun with sparklers!
Boy, isn't digital photography the best! I am one of those crazy scrap-booking ladies who carries a camera everywhere and is intent on documenting my life and the lives of my family. The advances in digital imaging have made it sooooo easy to take and share photos. As I have posted before, our dear family friend, Jeff Wignall (he look the photo at the left and his photostream can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17538542@N00/), is a professional photographer and writer and he has been encouraging me for a long time to get a Flickr account and now I have.