Apple Picking

Justin's Autobiography

My name is Justin. I was born on September 16, 2000 in Colorado. I still remember going with Oma and Poppy to the blue park. Then we moved to Indiana. In 2003 Eric was born. Then he was baptized. In 2004 I was invited to Dunken's birthday party. I banged my head on the coffee table and got stitches. I also went to preschool. On September 16, 2005 we moved to Ohio on my brithday. That year I did not go to school not even perschool. In 2006 I went to kindenerrgarten and in 2007 I went to first grade. Thous two years nothing much happend. In 2008 I was in 2 nds grade and went to Kalahary, the biggest water park in the US. Before that happened Ryan was born. Now I am in 3rd grade.

written for Mrs. Delaney's 3rd grade class (in very neat cursive)

Cross Country

Eric is running cross country this fall with school. The kindergarteners and 1st graders run a 1/2 mile. These are pictures from the first race. There were 163 kindergarten and 1st grade boys. Eric placed in the first half! We are very proud of him! The experience of watching all those little boys running their hearts out, brought tears to my eyes! It was a hoot!



Everyone gets a ribbon for running...


Some kindergarten friends...

Cute Child Quote #2

I thought I would try this again about the funny things the kids say... we went shopping tonight for a sports coat for Jon for meetings that he has coming up in Denver as well as others in the fall. He tried one on and Eric promptly stated that the coat he was trying on "looked like a vice president coat"! Where do kids come up with these things? (We bought it anyway, even though Jon has no aspirations for being VP.)

Piano Lesson

I have always been really bad about writing down the cute things that the boys have said, but I couldn't let this one pass by...

Ryan sat down on the floor with his piano today...


and asked me to give him piano lessons!

The First Day of School

It was the first day of school at Gesu today. Here is Justin starting 3rd grade!

Here is Eric on his first day of kindergarten. He only had a half day today. He loved it!

Just for kicks...here is Justin on his first day of kindergarten in 2006.

"Do Toledo"

One of the tourism advertisements for Toledo says, "Do Toledo" and I feel like that is what we have been doing lately. We took a trip to the zoo where a new kids section called "Nature's Neighborhood" opened. Here is Justin the giraffe...


My three little bees...

Eric and the guinea pig...


Last Saturday we went the Dragon Boat races on the Maumee River that are a fundraiser for Partners in Education supporting the Toledo Public schools. We had great fun watching the races.

Sunday was University of Toledo's Art on the Mall. The whole family likes to look at all the art, especially the glass work. My friend, Jenny, had her jewelry booth there as well, so I just HAD to buy something :^)

Lastly, Sunday night we went to the Toledo Mud Hens baseball game. The stadium is really nice, our seats were good and they won (10-2)!!






One really fun thing that do after Sunday games is let the kids run the bases. This is Jon and Ryan almost getting to second base. Justin and Eric had already rounded all the bases. After running the bases, they also had fireworks.