Tea Anyone...

Zoe decided to host a tea party today using her princess dixie cups. She is expecting 24 very skinny people (& yes, each cup has "tea" in it).

OSU-Illinois

Tony & I went to the disappointing Ohio State & Illinois football game today. It was cold & sad...darn that Juice Williams...

Zoe's New Dress

My mom made this cute dress for Zoe...

A little bit of drama...

This evening Tony & Zoe had a disagreement over a sweater.

At dinner, the conversation went like this:

Zoe: "Daddy hurt my feelings."

Me: "What did he do to hurt your feelings?"

Zoe: "He broke my heart."

Her 1st broken heart -- at only 3 1/2 -- over a sweater

Trick-or-Treat

Sleeping Beauty (with a Cinderella necklace & Tinkerbell wand)

Trick-or-Treating with 2 cool cats (Emma & Mary)

Zoe's & Her Loot
(you tend to get lots of candy when you just keep taking pieces when someone offers you the bowl - Zoe would take about four pieces instead of just one)

OSU-Penn St Game

Tony & Lew travelled to Penn St this weekend for the football game. Go Bucks!!

Halloween Ballet

At ballet this week, the girls dressed up in their Halloween costumes. (Apparently, Zoe's tights were a little small) Sorry for the bad camera work - I was laughing...

Halloween Tap

Carving Pumpkins

This evening while Uncle Ben was staying with us for a night, we picked pumpkins, carved & lit them.

Happy Birthday Emily!!

Uncle Tony also helped celebrate Emily's birthday this weekend.

Check out the cool mermaid cake...

OSU - MSU game

While in Columbus for recruiting, Tony just happened to attend the Ohio State - Michigan State game. Through a friend of Jason's, he was able to get a great seat...Go Bucks!!

Ford Recruiting

While recruiting for Ford at Ohio State, Tony & his group met, OSU president Gordon Gee.

"These are my new sisters!" (Zoe)

This morning, we went to Jungle Java so the girls could run around and have some fun. While I was signing in, Zoe told the person at the counter, "These are my new sisters." I just had to laugh. Zoe is having a great time with 2 little people to play with all of the time.

"These are very tasty!" (Shannon)

Sunday night, we made cupcakes to celebrate Shannon & Emily's visit. The girls each got to decorate 4 cupcakes (1 for each day they were here).

Happy Birthday Sarah & Emily!!

We celebrated Sarah & Emily's 5th birthdays this afternoon with lunch at Red Robin.

Poker Tournament

Congrats to Jason, who once again came in 2nd at the semi-annual poker tourney.

Senior Soccer Day

Saturday afternoon, we watched Matt's final home soccer game - also Senior Day (in a blistering 90 degree heat at noon - it was hot!!). Matt didn't see much action & since he's the goalkeeper, this is a good thing. They won 2-0 and we were all happy to return home to the air conditioning...

Happy 21st Amanda!!

Friday, we travelled to Stevensville, MI to help Amanda celebrate her 21st birthday. First stop was the Sandbar where Amanda had her 1st drink at midnight (bar time, of course). Then, we went down to a new casino in New Buffalo. Needless to say, we didn't home until almost 4am. Us old folks were pretty tired the next day...

Saturday evening, we went to Applebee's for dinner & then had cake during halftime of the Ohio State game...

Mission Accomplished

We are having a great time at Disney World (we have internet access for the next 23 hours...).

Sunday, Zoe met Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella & Belle in fell swoop. She gave them all hugs & showed them their picture on her shirt.

Zoe's 1st Roller Coaster

Today, Zoe rode Goofy's Barnstormer. She was so excited to ride a roller coaster. Daddy had rode one the day before and she REALLY wanted to ride. Luckily this on was just her size....

As you can see, she was all smiles going up the first hill, not so much the rest of the ride. What I failed to capture, was the hysterical crying that occurred once the ride had stopped. However, the next day, she said she wanted to ride again, so we did. And, it again ended with her crying...go figure.

I'm Not Tired...

Zoe spent an hour and a half in her room "napping" this afternoon. At 4:00pm she claimed, she had slept & wasn't tired anymore, so I let her come downstairs. This is her passed out on the couch about half an hour later...