Tina!

Cake based on "Tina" fabric show in bottom corner.

Snow day - No school!

Finally a snow day! Good thing because I did not finish decorating the cookies for Tyler's Valentines last night.

The boys actually went out at 9am - looks like fun doesn't it? (I hope you can sense the sarcasm!) Why is it that on a school day I am prying them out of bed at 6:45 to rush to make the bus, yet on a snow day they are both up before 6am????

And yes I think it was as cold as it looks...

Stephen tried to shovel the lawn, not much progress made there.

Here is Stephen after coming in from the cold to get warm. I quickly vetoed this outfit for the day and demanded long pants at the very least.

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Thinking of Grandma

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Brian's Brewhouse Cake!

Here is a 40th birthday cake for my friend's brother. He is Irish and brews his own beer (go figure!) Although this may seem like the perfect cake for him - beer and cake to go - the bottles are not real. I made them all from sugar, with edible image labels, so technically you could eat them. But not a great substitute if you are thirsty. The bartender fell for it - he thought it was really a bucket of beer. It was pretty funny when D bit the top of one of the bottles off!

Close up of all the labels - many thanks to all those who contributed to the label text!

Squirt B's Win MORE Trophies!

Went to Lake Placid - bought crazy hats - visited the hospital - won the Gold.

It was a full weekend.

Where'd You Get That Hat?

2 Staples - 1 Hard Head

Tyler at the Olympic Museum

We Keans make pretty babies!

Ryan Kean Bridges




Gerald Kean III

So amazingly cute!!!

Finally some snow....

Okay NOW I can get rid of my Christmas wreath!

But the temp went right back up, very nice out today,

sun shining with the snow on the trees, very pretty.

Of course I can enjoy the snow because I can start my car in my garage and

hop inside with my coffee on not have to go outside until AFTER

I have driven my ass to work (sorry Ro! LOL!)

Stephen Draws

I don't know who this is - but it's just too cute!

Squirt B's Win Trophies!

Tyler's Team won the Division Championship - so the journey to the State Finals continues!

You made the Blog!

Okay - this took waaaay too long to post (but not as long as it did to plan)! Thanks for dinner Jackie and Chris!






As you can see Tiago had a great time - he really loved the napkin origami!

The Hockey Team Goes to Motocross

Tyler's hockey coach took the team to see a motocross show in Worcester.

Okay - so I was the only Mom there - I had fun with the guys. The kids loved it!

Merry Christmas!

Okay folks - I am way behind!

Big hits this Christmas....

We Have Fishermen in the Family

Here is my nephew Andrew -he knows how to catch 'em!



And here he is with Grizzly Adams.... Oh wait, that's Steve.

Is he a doll or what?

Check out Steve's websites and spread the word - fishing anyone?

www.capecodflatsfishing.com
www.alaskarainbowtrout.com

Stephenisms II

SCA: "I really like Conner."

Me: "Why Stephen?"

SCA: "Because he talks cool. He can't think of what he wants to say, and then he just says it!"

Conner stutters.

Stephenisms I

As I am in the car "explaining to" (all you Mom's can read the code here, right?) my children that people don't think it's cute when they are fresh in public Stephen pipes up with:

"Yes, they do. Because I am little."

Oh boy - how much trouble do you think I am going to be in with him? It's a scary thing when they know they are cute....

Tyler The Public Speaker

Each day Tyler proves to be more and more like his Dad. He had the longest speaking part in the pagent yesterday and he spoke beautifully. Emma and the other children were all so cute as well.

I said he sounded just like Linus in A Charlie Brown Christmas - I mean it as a compliement. Juliana led in the angels, and Dominic was the cutest angel and very serious about his singing. Especially the "oooooooo"s. I don't know how they get all those 6 year old boys to wear those robes and tinsle on their heads. I can't even imagine Stephen putting up with that next year!

Tyler looked very handsome in his pink shirt and tie. He had to tell everyone - including the principal, that we had to go to Kohl's at 7 am to buy him clothes to wear, because somehow he grew overnight and NOTHING fit him! So much for looking like the Organized Mother.

Thank goodness Kohl's are open early for Christmas. By the way, Target is not. The man at the register must have thought I was crazy, showing up ripping tags off the clothes Tyler was wearing and asking him to ring them up. But we made it to school 10 minutes before the bell and he looked very sharp - again, more and more like his Dad.

Our Tree

Here are a few pictures of our tree - we still don't have a great one yet, but you get the idea.

We Make Gingerbread!

I made 16 gingerbread houses for Stephen's class to decorate today for their school Christmas party. The kids had a great time decorating and they came out very cute!

Tyler's pagent is this afternoon - we had to run to Kohl's thismorning at 7am to buy him clothes because he has suddenly outgrown everything in his closet! We were able to shop, get him dressed and get the boys to school before 8am. At least now I know he has something to wear for Christmas.

Ford Modeling should be calling us any day now...

Okay - so any day now these photos will fall into the hands of someone at Ford Modeling Agency and they will be beating our door down with Gap, Old Navy and other offers for modeling contracts. I mean really - how cool are we?

And for those of you "In The Know" - Volume 4 is on it's way. Tiago is very proud of this year's production. He started working on it the day after Christmas last year! I swear the list gets longer each year - if you don't think you are on it and want to be - let me know before this year's supply is gone.