New Year - New Beginnings

I know, it has been way too long since my last posting so let me start to catch everyone up with what has been happening.

September 16th Christina turned 21. I can believe she is 21, I just can't believe I am old enough to have a 21 year old. We went out for dinner to Texas Roadhouse for a Birthday dinner. Nannie, Greg, Sandy, Patrick, Michelle, Allie, Lauren, Steven and our family enjoyed a celebration dinner. She had her first "officially legal" drink.

October brought TOB's (Tournament of Bands) for Emily and soccer games for Joe. Emily enjoyed a great season with Thomas Stone being invited to perform at ACC's in Pensylvania in November. Joey played midfield for Thomas Stone's Junior Varsity team and was asked to move up to Varsity for the playoffs. This is a pretty special honor, as only three students were asked.

Emily performed in Thomas Stone's Imagination Playhouse production of "The Revenge of the Space Pandas or Binky Rudich and the Two Speed Clock". They performed this along with "The Frog Prince" as the hope was to attract more children. They were able to perform 2 - 2 a days. This means they had two daytime performances during the week and area schools attended. This enabled them to raise quite a bit of money to be used for their trip to Scotland this summer for the International Thespian Festival. I know what you are thinking - and the answer is yes. Emily graduates in June, goes to Scotland in August, and then right off to college. What an adventurous Summer this will be for Emily, and a sad fall for me. I will adjust, but I will miss her terribly when she goes off to school.

Christina and I had a wonderful time visiting with Cindy and Brad in Chicago. What a fabulous and beautiful city. I will blog more about the trip in my next post, as I really need to rethink the entire visit and how a huge secret was being kept from me the entire time. Wow, I know - how could anyone keep a secret from me - well it did happen. More to come in the next post.

Okay, that is enough for now. I will try to get back on later and bring you up to speed with the happenings through the Holidays.

Love to you all!