Tyler 12/26/11

Mom has fun with the drawing pad

Christmas 2011

 Close up of Austin

Kids are excited to have there own tree in the play room.

 Austin and Tree

 Tyler and Tree

Tree and lights

 Friend of mine, Peggy, her sister made these amazing distilled water candle and wine chiller holders.

 I would like to put a star shape and wine bottle shape on my list for Santa next year.

 New Nativity at St. Aloysius School and Church

Santa Pancakes made by Daddy- the pancak master

 Mr. Magical Elf- you where awsome!!! We will see you next year.

 Hanging around

 Close up of our Elf. now back at the North Pole or we will check his box and see if Santa left him with the story.

 Pottstown Downtown tree - Dinner out with Mommy and Daddy at the Brick House

 Austin with Lemon Puckered lips.. so funny

Steph's quiche- very taste and easy.

 Lots and Lots of Presents. Oh what fun we had!!! Thanks to Santa, Muzzi, Poppy, Aunt Gretchen, Uncle Paul, Finn, the Maddens, and Mommy and Daddy!!! Hops-a-lot thanks Austin for his new hid out and crickets.

I will have to post the photos from our camera tommorrow. Tyler made us that cute little back that is a snowman and it had a real snowman made from a sock.

Merry Christmas
Love
Steph

Moms Christmas Halopinio and Pea

Mom is planning on making some Pea soup out of the Ham Bone from the wonderful and taste ham we had for Christmas dinner, hoping to share some with the homeless who are staying at our church . They have been at church everynight for the month of December and I have not gotten a chance to help so I will make some soup Monday night and get it dropped off for there 10PM meal.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Will post a photo of our tree soon.love Steph

Tylers Drawings

New Bamboo Drawing Pad- Thanks Mom and Dad

Merry Christmas!! Had a wonderful day with Muzzi and Poppy, thanks for all of the nice presents. Great to Skype with Finn and Aunt Gretchen and Uncle Paul. Hope to see you soon. Muzzi and Poppy have the Thomas table , we hope Finn has hours of fun on it when he gets it for his room. Let us know if you want tracks and trains when he is 3 and 4 years old.

take a look at some of the drawings the boys did tonight and even Mommy tried it out. Mommy and Daddy  got the boys a new drawing pad that is connected to the computer. Boys are in heaven and mom and dad see and end to contruction paper city in the playroom.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL !! Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR
Love

Steph

BACK TO SCHOOL

The begining of another school year has started. Today is the first day that both boys have full days. I miss them already. I am about to tackle getting lots of wash done and make all beds in the house.  Looking forward to working out a the gym later today too before going to car line to pick them up.

Tyler is just entering Third Grade.  He is excited to see his friends and to be reminded of all the cursive lettters.  All of Third grade work is done in cursive, so it will be a fun year for Tyler who loves his cursive lettering.
Austin is excited to start his year in Kindergarden. His teacher Mrs. Dudek has already done a lot of fun things with them including a Hermit Crab race.   Mrs. Dudek asked me for my help in testing out the kidblog she set up for her class. Over the weekend I was able to access the blog and so can you at .

/http://kidblog.org/MrsDudeksclass/


Tyler wanted a blog set up for him too, so you can follow his at

http://www.lollipoprock1.blogspot.com/

I am still enjoying working at Kohls- nights and weekends. This past weekend Ronnie and the boys came up and we eat dinner at Friendlys Resturant. The boys got to punch out and build a neat paper ice cream trophy. I will post photos later.
This week coming up I have to find someone to cover my Fri, Sat and Sunday shits - (Friday is already taken care of) Ronnie will be traveling to Texas.
Ronnie will be gone Friday, Sat, Sunday and Monday- we will miss him- and we hope all the work goes good, and that there are no issues.

Family Photo for Austins cubby at school

Salsa Red Birthday Beetle

My Wonderful husband surprised me today with a used 2008 salsa Red Beetle.  Ronnie and his nephew Luke went to Home Depot and Lowes for cabnitry for the garage. When they got home, Ron asked me to pull his car around to the back of the garage (it was parked in front of the house) so he could take the kids car seats out.  He handed me what I thought was his WV keys.-- I got out front and there was my new early birthday present.  Wow!!! I couldn't beleive it!!!! Thank you so much to Ronnie and my boys too who kept it a secret for almost 2 weeks.

Spaghetti and Meatball Dinner

Our neighbors from across the street where nice and gave us four free tickets to their church Spaghetti Dinner.  We will go for dinner tonight and maybe also see our other neighbors the Stranges.

Tyler is happy that Summer Uniform starts on Monday. So begins the countdown to the end of another school year and Summer!!! I sent in the kids reenrollment forms today along with some registration $$$.

Also the Mansmann crew has a new CAR!!!! We traded in our 2004 Sienna for a brand spankin new 2011 model of the same car. The new Sienna has tons for features and lot more leg room - I will take a picture tommorrow if it is not raining again.

Also some good news on Rons car. Hopefully we will know by the end of today if everything is turning out alright on it.  We had it towed to the dealership last week, and then had it towed yesterday to a shop in NJ, in Washington, NJ_ mom is that near you??

Hope everyone is well.
thanks for checking my Blog- I know it has been a while since I posted.