Eyes to the Skies 2008

Fireworks Finale

Caroline at the Park

The baby pictures at the bottom were Caroline... when she was a baby. Now she's a toddler! Well, she'll be 2 in November, so I don't know what that makes her, but she's really tall and running on this bridge at the park in Lisle before the fireworks. The taller girl that she bumps into is her cousin Madelyn.

People on our balcony

People on our balcony. See? We have year-round rope lights. Here's Erin & Tylor on my 25th birthday.



Katie, Megan, Jon, Erin & Tylor, 25th birthday, again


Me and Megan, same birthday. See the rum on the cooler? That would explain the tongue.



Danny and his "boyfriend" Jim. Ok, so we took a lot of pictures on the balcony that night and not a whole lot since...(by the way if you're wondering, I'm 28 now. So that gives you an idea of how old these are. I'll be 29 in August) You'd be able to see that Danny and Jim have a redheaded guy connection, but it's in black and white. Could you tell?


Emma & Charlie Roller, Mother's Day 2007. Doesn't Charlie look like a younger, smart-aleck version of Mr. Joe Anderson? I think so...

Scenic Balcony

This was taken in the fall.

Obviously these are pictures taken in the winter; I'm just not sure which winter. Does it matter? I think not.

Balcony 2

This is the same thing. It's longer. And it's kind of more...dizzy inducing. But you get to see the view from our balcony!
I was walking around kind of mumbling, but I was saying that we have no cicadas on our balcony, so I can't show any, and then I looked down and said, "I wonder if you can see them on the ground", but no, because our camera doesn't have zoom. (It's a digital camera that has a stupid video feature.) Then I went to the other side of the balcony to see if there were any cicadas lying around, and nope, there were none. Beyond the trees is our small lake. It doesn't have a cool name. It's just the lake. And the cat on the video is Jasper.
We had just expected to see more...well any cicadas since we live in a wooded area and the trees have been there more than 20 years (17 is the magic number). We saw 2 mating in the parking lot. It was really cool, and I took a picture with my cell phone, and it wasn't that great, so it's not here. I don't even know where it is. It's on my old cell phone, I guess. But I digress...

Our Balcony

Caution: you may feel like you've got motion sickness....it's a crummy camera. This is me walking around on our balcony, trying to give the viewer to get an idea of what it sounded like on June 5, 2006 with the really loud cicadas. But unfortunately, the camera sucks. It just sounds like the sound is bad, but it's really the cicadas. It's too bad, because they were really loud everyday when I came home for lunch, and it just didn't come across that way.

Betty's Spill and Spew

Everyone had fun at Margie's party...until Betty took a spill!


















And then they laughed even harder. It looks like Margie almost spewed, too!

And here's the stool in question...

Virginia Beachers

Lynn came into town with Lizzie, Emma and Grant. Danny and I snapped a few pictures and here's what we came up with.



Shhh...don't mention the broom, whatever you do.







Grant discovers what a screen door can do...





..and he found Lynn's phone.




Lizzie and Emma had some kind of top secret tree branch manufacturing thing going on. I'm not allowed to tell you what they were doing.






And some cuddles for Uncle Danny.

Chop Chop!

I chopped my hair! Check it out!

Philly Trip

Danny and I went to Philly the weekend of March 9th, and here are some pics!

The mosaic house near South Street that Erin told us we HAD to see.



Danny and Zoey, Katie and Amaya, the happy family, and...some big bell.
More later!

Super Bowl Sunday

Here's some pictures we took while we visited the Kamowski House for our Sunday brunch.

Isn't she cute?

The lovely and talented CQ on Super Bowl Sunday

Some Videos

Here's some videos we took of CQ on Super Bowl Sunday

The last two...for now.

These two are my favorites. The smiling one is SO cute, but it's blurry. I'll have to fix it later. I just wanted to put it up now.




This one shows that she's gonna grow up loving roller coasters (yesssssss) (and maybe hate having her feet tickled)

Happy Little Family

This is one of my favorite pictures. It's really great. This was taken Sunday morning.

Who does she look like?

She looks like she has Al's lips, but she also has Riley's feet!! They're pretty big (not HUGE) for her size (definite athlete), but she also has Riley's signature toes. She's a lucky little girl.

Daddy's Girl

Caroline got a little irritated by me holding her for too long, but Dad was able to calm her down with some pats on her tummy and some whispering in her ear. Yes, this is when you say, "Awwww..." in the girl tone. It was very sweet.

...More Pictures?

Yes, here's some more pictures. I did some black and white, and sepia. Not sure how well I like it just yet, but check it out.

CQ!!

Here's some pictures I took of Caroline at her house on Saturday, November 11th. She's such a great photo subject! She never complained about my flash-even once.