October 2006
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Tue 31 Oct 2006
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Here is our picture from our little Halloween party a week ago.
If you don’t get our costumes, go to http://www.apple.com/getamac/ and you will understand.
Here is our little Bat!
Connor did Trick-or-treat for UNICEF this year and had so much fun doing it. It will be a tradition from now on each year for sure. We started the Monday before Halloween with an FHE about kids around the world that don’t have the things we do and what we could do to help them. Then our project was building the little UNICEF box.
The people at the door were so sweet and giving. They emptied their pockets and all told Connor he was doing a good thing. He collected a little over $20 in an hour. His line was, “Trick or Treat for UNICEF, were collecting change for poor kids around the world.” That night we deposited the change in a coinstar machine in a local grocery store and they send it to UNICEF. Connor loved it. We were cracking up watching him “stick his foot in the door” as he gave the speech. Danny and I were so proud, we just kept laughing and saying he’s a natural! Mission, pest contral, here we come!
(sorry you have to crank your neck, I need to figure out how to turn the photos)
Fri 27 Oct 2006
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My Parents! They are so cute. I’m sure my Dad snuck up on my mom to get this photo, but I love it because this is what my mom is doing all the time, curled up reading. My mom just had her birthday! Happy Birthday! She turned 49 this year, and I still think that is so young considering I am almost 30! She said this will be her last birthday. 
Well, we all love my mom for so many reasons, she is our hero and she knows it. She is a little smarty pants, and the cute one in the family. She has raised five daughters and done a great job. Any one that gets five girls should get a ticket straight to heaven in my book.
I put a photo in here of my Dad too because he is just looking so handsome!! The doctor told him that he could get knee surgery or drop some weight and so he has lost quite a few pounds and is at 185!! I am so proud of him. He loves his new job, (working for Lowes) and of course they love him (who wouldn’t) and and have asked him to join the leadership management program.
Kyson is getting bigger every day, (passed Connor, to Connors disappointment) and just turned four, Happy Birthday Kyson!! He is in full day pre-school and doing great. Leslie is plugging along and hopes to join the job core soon. I miss her. I wish I could see her more often. I love you Les. It’s sad that Connor and Kyson don’t get to play very much, but when they get together they have a blast and get in loads of trouble!
Wed 25 Oct 2006
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to share some very exciting news. My sister Camille and her husband Owen are in the process of trying to adopt!
They are so excited! They have been waiting for this for so long and I think they are going to make the best parents ever! A lot of adoptions from LDS Family services now happen by referral; (meaning the adoptive couple finds out about a birthmother through family or friends) so please take a minute to visit their website and read it, then if you come across a situation where Camille and Owen could be referred please pass along their web site. Thanks.
Owen and Camille’s LDS Family Services Adoption Website
I just wanted to let Owen and Camille know how much we love you and your future baby! Fun times!!
Sun 22 Oct 2006
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This Saturday we had another game and our team played better, and the other team wasn’t as good as the week before. We won 5-4 and Connor scored four of our goals. We got some good video of 3 of the goals, so that should make the grandparents happy.
Saturday night we went out to the Halloween party and it was a lot of fun. Andrea and I ended up going as the PC and MAC like the commercials on TV. Everybody thought it was really funny. We had “Hi, I’m a MAC” printed on Andrea’s sweatshirt and I wore a nerdy striped shirt with a tie and had “I’m a PC” printed on it. It was a fun time.
Mon 9 Oct 2006
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Well, the mighty Beagles had another big victory on Saturday and Connor scored three goals again! The thing that made it kind of sweet was this one kid in Connor’s Sunday School class was on the other team. He is really a nice boy, his dad is really cool, but the mom is a little different. So she gets to the game and first thing she says is “You guys are going down!” We were like, “Oh, fun to see you too. Isn’t it fun to let the kids play.” She just kept talking smack and sat right behind the goal barking out stuff. So Connor put three right in the net in front of her and they didn’t score on us. It has hard not to have a little smile on our faces after that game.
We didn’t get any pictures, but we have some nice video to share at Christmas!
Wed 4 Oct 2006
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Well, I was going to wait until we got some good costume ideas from our readers, but since that apparently isn’t going to happen I will go a head and post!
I think that most of you heard about Connor’s three goals last Saturday in his soccer match. We will try to get some pictures to share this weekend. It is kind of hard to coach and take good pictures of my son though! Being the sportmanship advocate that I am, I have tried to remind him that is doesn’t matter if you score a goal every game, it just matters that somebody brings post-game treats.
After Connor’s game, we went over to an awesome new sports complex they are opening in Northbrook. Players from the Chicago Machine (one of the professional Lacrosse teams) were there. They showed Connor and I how to play and took a few pictures of us after they saw our skills. (Apparently sweet nun-chuck skills are transferable!) I also took a few swings in the batting cages. The sign said “Medium Baseball” and there was no line, so I jumped in first thing. 8 swings later I had yet to touch a ball. The guy later told me that the sign was wrong and that it was really throwing about 88. Geez, just wanted to get in there and hit a few slow ones to impress my wife!
Other than that, we have had some serious storms. I’ve never seen such big lightning storms on a continuous basis, but then it clears up the next day. I think it is fun, but Andrea and Connor end up plastered next to me in the bed!
(Connor put a couple in the back of the net. They were really cute with him and Andrea even got the team to give Connor a beginners stick to take home.)
