Day 366

Happy New Year's Eve!

This is Jack in my very first picture back on January 1, 2011.  Here we are two years later and I'm asking the question I asked last year.  Is anybody out there?  Does anyone care if I keep doing a picture a day?  Let me know in the comments please.

Day 365

I love the little pops of green.

Day 364

Sometimes I get lucky and the shot turns out just like I see it in my head.

Day 363

I know you've heard me say this before, but is he not the cutest little man you have ever seen?  I just can't get enough of him.

Day 362

I think Aunt Cindy liked the birthday present Natalie picked out for her.

Day 361

The loves of my life at Christmas breakfast.  I am truly blessed.

Day 360

Santa and his reindeer at the county park light display.

Merry Christmas my friends!



Day 359

Isn't this pretty?  I can't even imagine  how long it took to do this.

Day 358

The sweet Miss Lizzy at her preschool Christmas party.

Day 357

I saw this on Facebook last night and couldn't resist.

Day 356

Five more sleeps (as the preschoolers would say) until the big guy comes.  I am not in any way ready for his visit.  Anyone know how to freeze time for a few days? 

Day 355

This picture doesn't really do it justice, but the clouds looked just a rainbow the other morning.

Day 354

If the computer room looks like this, it must be the week before Christmas.

Day 353

Obviously not a new picture, but somehow, it just seemed like a day for butterflies.

Day 352

This was mom's birthday cake.  She really is our super woman!!

Day 351

My mom and step dad celebrating mom's 87th birthday.  Aren't they amazing!!

Day 350

Aunt Abby reads a mean "tickle monster" story.  They loved it!

Day 349

This girl has my heart.  I bet Santa brings her everything she wants.

Day 348

The most special ornament on our tree.  Miss you so much,  dad.

Day 347

Our pretty tree and the "soft glow of electric sex" in the window.

Day 346

I made reindeer cookies with the kids on Saturday.  Some of us were very serious about sorting the red M & M's from the green for noses.  Some of us were only concerned with eating the green M & M's, as you can tell by Jack's mouth.  The boy knows how to have fun!

Day 345

Who loves who more?  That is a tough question!

Day 344

I don't understand sculpture.  Why is this cool?  Looks very weird to me.

Day 343

This is our Christmas card picture from last year.  It is tradition that we take it on Thanksgiving.  This

year, we didn't.  Good thing I have something else up my sleeve instead. 

Day 342

It seems like ever since we put up the new feeder, there is always a party going on.

Day 341

This might not look like anything special to you, but it is some awesome storage for grammy's playroom.  It definitely needed some organization help.  Thanks for sharing, Nicki!

Day 340

Lizzy doesn't look too happy, but Natalie loved Santa.  Grammy loves him too.

Day 339

And the Santa was hung on the pole barn with care.......

Day 338

Lizzy and Natalie listening to Santa read.  They loved it (and him)

Day 337

Manti Te'o

Hopefully the next Heisman Trophy winner!

Day 336

Jupiter and the moon through the trees.

Day 335

Abby and I in front of the big Christmas tree at Hammes Bookstore on the campus of Notre Dame.  It was one of the best days ever.

Day 334

I am really liking this shot.

Day 333

This is what happens when the little people get a hold of my camera.

Day 332

Look who came to town on top of a fire truck.  The big guy himself!

Day 331

This may have been taken on Thanksgiving, but this is just how Dick looked last night after Notre Dame beat USC to remain undefeated and earn the right to go to the BCS championship game.  We are pretty darn happy around here.  I told him he brought them luck by being an usher at the games this year.  Stranger things have happened.

Day 330

Natalie and Emma were frozen, but smiling as they watched the Christmas parade and waited for Santa.  Couldn't the weather have held just one more day?

Day 329

I'm not sure how many times we have to explain the difference between the pool and the hot tub before they really get it? 

Day 328

From our family to yours,

Happy Thanksgiving!

Day 327

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this were true?

Day 326

Here's something you don't see every day.  A lady at Notre Dame told us that bikes are the #1 thing stolen thing on campus.  I think this one was just "misplaced".

Day 325

This was the first time I saw the Golden Dome from the inside. 

Isn't it beautiful?

Day 324

It's Manti Te'o taking the field on Senior Day at the Notre Dame / Wake Forest football game.   Oh, did I mention that I was there?  It was awesome!!!!  38 - 0 win to continue the unbeaten Notre Dame season.  They are 11-0 for the season.

Day 323

Mr. Cheeto Face hiding from the raindrops with Aunt Abby.

Day 322

We are pretty serious about our bonfires.  Go big or go home!

Day 321

It's kind of hard to believe that this used to be the tallest building in Chicago at one time.  Of course, that was also when I was a kid.  That was a long time ago! 

Day 320

This is me standing out on the Skydeck at Willis Tower.  I edited the picture to remove my thighs because they looked like tree trunks at that angle.  I think you get the picture though.  I was standing on a little rectangle of plexiglass 113 floors up in the air.  Scary, but damn cool at the same time.  Dick was out there too, but he didn't take a very good picture.

Day 319

Three little cuties watching the family flag football game in the rain.

Day 318

Check it out, guys!  They bought us a new bird feeder.

Day 317

I thought this only happened in movies, but I was wrong.  It happens in Chicago!