New Family Members

Our family has grown by two. The children adopted 2 hamsters from the Champaign County Humane Society. Their names are Peit and Tiny. They have been having so much fun playing with them.

Bear Grylls in Arcola

Micheal Thomson came down with his sister Bethany ( when she came for an interview for the school). they ( the boys) went down to the creek and built a shelter like Bear Grylls on Man vs. Wild. [posted by Alysha]

First Day in Boston

Boston

We made it to Boston! We went to the aquarium Friday morning. It was pretty nice aquarium. After that we wandered around a for awhile then we went to the Red Sox vs Angels ball game at Fenway Park. It was a bit cool about 38 degrees with the wind blowing pretty good. The Red Sox won! When we left the game we were trying to hail a taxi when some guy sez hey I have a Towncar I will take ya. So there 7 of that pile into this Lincoln Town! I think we looked like on of those clown cars at the circus. Click on the Boston photo to go to a web gallery of pix

Owl House

Trevor has been wanting to build something, so on Saturday we built an owl house. Blake Rocke was here so he got in on the action also. I think they all had a great time. I put it on a tree not to far from the house hoping that we could get a glimpse of Mr and Mrs Owl when they move in. If they come back several years I may have to look into putting a web cam in it so we could have our own owl page. More pix here

Windpower

On the way home from Alysha's tourney in Pekin we drove by a windfarm East of Bloomington. The kids counted over 50 wind jennys and that was just one section of the farm. They are putting up more, I bet there was at least 15 to 20 jennys under construction. We stopped at one that was right by the road, it was huge. I wish I had one in my backyard.....

HOOOME RUUUN

We spent the weekend in Pekin at a softball tourney. Fortunately it was an indoor tourney, made it much more enjoyable. Alysha played 3 games and :( lost all 3. They did play pretty good for the first games of the season. Alysha pitched the end of one game and started the next game. Here is a pix of her on her way to 1st. She turned a single into a HOME RUN!!

Dad's 64th Birthday

We celebrated Dad's birthday at Smokey Bones. We had a good time and the food was good too! Here are the pix