Day 240 - Sunday, August 28, 2011 – Seriously, could this girl get any more beautiful?! Sitting out on our back patio, a small slice of paradise. (Photo Credit - Alicia Kuligowski)
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Day 239 - Saturday, August 27, 2011
Day 239 - Saturday, August 27, 2011 – Today was Liam's turn to play on Oxford's new field (Liam is in the far right of the photo). They were the third team to play a game on the turf, and unfortunately the first Oxford team to lose on it, bringing Liam's 12 game winning streak with OJW to a close.
Day 238 - Friday, August 26, 2011
Day 238 - Friday, August 26, 2011 – Liam and his fellow OJW brothers cheer the Oxford Wildcats varsity football team on to victory against defending state champions, Lake Orion during the inaugural game on the brand new MAGICAL BLUE TURF. A historic day in Oxford, for sure. 20-41, good guys.
Day 237 - Thursday, August 25, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Day 236 - Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Day 236 - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 – I thoroughly enjoyed watching this butterfly visit my butterfly bush in the front yard today.
Day 235 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Day 235 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 – Jordyn's icing on her Florida cake was the trip to Universal and to HOGWARTS!
Day 234 - Monday, August 22, 2011
Day 234 - Monday, August 22, 2011 – Jordyn with Aunt Mary at a show at the Villages in Florida.
Day 233 - Sunday, August 21, 2011
Day 233 - Sunday, August 21, 2011 – WOO HOO! We received this letter in the mail today to let us know that Jordyn was one of 20 kids selected out of 100 who applied to join the yearbook staff. She is SO excited and I am SO happy for her.
Day 232 - Saturday, August 20, 2011
Day 232 - Saturday, August 20, 2011 – Jordyn visits Clearwater Beach in Florida.
Day 231 - Friday, August 19, 2011
Day 231 - Friday, August 19, 2011 – We had the best visit ever from two of our favorite people on the planet. Sean & Susan came all the way from San Jose, bearing prizes for everyone. We made them beer can chicken, Michigan sweet corn, tomato basil mozzarella, and baked beans, then we went to watch Kev's softball play offs. Hopefully they'll stay for two days next time!
Day 230 - Thursday, August 18, 2011
Day 230 - Thursday, August 18, 2011 – Ashton watching a summer sunset while Liam goes through his encyclopedia of dog breeds and Kevin and I sip on some vino from a box listening to tunes.
Day 229 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day 229 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 – Jordyn posing in front of Cody's Roadhouse in Florida. Love this girl.
Day 228 - Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Day 228 - Tuesday, August 16, 2011 – Jordyn, my mom, and Cordelia go to see the movie The Help in Florida. So, that's where my Detroit tank top went!!
Day 227 - Monday, August 15, 2011
Day 227 - Monday, August 15, 2011 – Kevin took vacation this week and went out on the boat with the Petoskey boys, Carson and Owen relax in the hammock afterwards and while it looks like Owen is trying to flip me off (as his dad often does), he's actually trying to prevent me from taking a picture of a scab on the side of his nose.
Day 226 - Sunday, August 14, 2011
Day 226 - Sunday, August 14, 2011 – My new-found fascination with food has turned me into a non-stop cooking fool. Prepping for potato leek soup. Yum-O!
Day 225 - Saturday, August 13, 2011
Day 225 - Saturday, August 13, 2011 – I forced Kevin to attend the Kid Rock concert with me tonight at Comerica Park. We went down to the D via Nick's Shuttle Service (never again!) with Ellie & Ryan and their friends Todd & Gina. We met up at Cheli's before the concert with the Petoskeys, Calls, Matczaks, and Stouts, and had a BLAST dancing to the live band in the beer tent. Kevin might not love Kid Rock, but he loves a fun night of partying...although both of us would have preferred to have gotten home before 3:30 am since neither of us are the rockstars we once were.
Day 224 - Friday, August 12, 2011
Day 224 - Friday, August 12, 2011 – Tonight Jordyn and I went to see Bailey perform as Irene Molloy in the Oakland Homeschool Music production of Hello, Dolly! And, while Bailey was, of course PHENOMENAL, all of the Sprys participated in this fabulous production. Bella was part of the chorus, Aaron played violin in the orchestra, and Jake (right) was part of the cool sunglasses-wearing crew.
Day 223 - Thursday, August 11, 2011
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Day 223 - Thursday, August 11, 2011 – We're preparing to send Jordyn to Florida with my mom for 12 days, so we let her pick a restaurant for dinner tonight. Italia Gardens. This picture doesn't do her hair justice, she was wearing the cutest side pony tail and it was CURLY! We're going to miss her!
Day 222 - Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Day 222 - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 – I dropped Liam off at Echo Grove camp in Leonard for a one night, two day OJW football camp. He was able to bunk in the same room as Max and Mr. Parsons, along with Michael Scepka, Austin Redlin, and Austin Findlay.
Day 221 - Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Day 221 - Tuesday, August 9, 2011 – It looks like Owen is eating a Hostess cupcake, but no, he's taking a faux bite out of a squishy hockey puck. Of course.
Day 220 - Monday, August 8, 2011
Day 220 - Monday, August 8, 2011 – Ashton learns how to use a fork!!
Day 219 - Sunday, August 7, 2011
Day 219 - Sunday, August 7, 2011 – Kevin took Owen and Liam to Michigan's Adventure to celebrate Liam's birthday. Liam invited Sam Barrott to spend the day with him who brought along his dad, Ken. OOH RAH! They had a blast and stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Hillary's for dinner on the way home.
Day 218 - Saturday, August 6, 2011
Day 218 - Saturday, August 6, 2011 – Double Digits for Liam!! We started the day with a trip to the Clarkston Farmer's Market and then breakfast in Clarkston with my mom and sister. Then we joined the Matczak's on their boat on Lake Orion. Liam and Owen had a blast tubing together, and it only took 75 photos for me to get THE PERFECT shot...no cropping required!! We finished the night at the Hillary Tavern celebrating with the Matczaks, Calls, Parsons and some candles in an order of cinnamon sticks. Do you think Liam will have long therapy sessions later in life about how his mom didn't have a birthday cake for him on his tenth birthday? Gotta give 'em something to talk about.
Day 217 - Friday, August 5, 2011
Day 217 - Friday, August 5, 2011 – Friday night Casa ball. Hillary on first, Psycho (Carol Carpenter) on second. Photo Credit - Laura Armbruster.
Day 216 - Thursday, August 4, 2011
Day 216 - Thursday, August 4, 2011 – Tonight began full pads practice for the boys. Coach Snable puts the boys through some drills with Liam leading the JV Gold pack. A few days ago, Liam told me "I can not WAIT to put pads on, Mom! I am going to SQUASH Austin Redlin like a PANCAKE!! He keeps calling me pip squeak and squirt. He's going DOWN!" :)
Day 215 - Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Day 215 - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 – I am on a locally grown, organic food kick since watching the documentary Food, Inc. a few days ago. I have a new appreciation for food that I’ve never had before. Isn’t this stuff gorgeous?!
Day 214 - Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Day 214 - Tuesday, August 2, 2011 – Kayla, one of Jordyn's BFF's, is moving to Chicago soon, so the girls (Megan, Kayla, Jordyn, and Shelby) went on a farewell shopping trip. We're going to miss you, Kayla!!
Day 213 - Monday, August 1, 2011
Day 213 - Monday, August 1, 2011 – Jordyn being Yogasilly at Grandma Bonnie's house.
Day 212 - Saturday, July 31, 2011
Day 212 - Saturday, July 31, 2011 – The next generation pose at the Shellnut reunion. (l to r - Jacob, Jordyn, Aaron, Bailey, Julianna, Cordelia, Dianna). This year's reunion was more sad than anything else. There are no more Shellnut siblings left in Michigan and the four who live out of state couldn't find it in them to make the trip north. I don't blame them. Miss you, Dad.
Day 211 - Saturday, July 30, 2011
Day 211 - Saturday, July 30, 2011 – Jordyn and her bestie, Alicia, floating in the lake. Soaking up the sun, sharing secrets, laughing contagiously...lifelong friends.
Day 210 - Friday, July 29, 2011
Day 210 - Friday, July 29, 2011 – Liam is blaming Owen for the fact that he has been locked out of his iPod Touch for over 21 MILLION minutes...um that's like 40 years according to my math!! I'm blaming Liam who insists on assigning a password to his device for no reason other than to keep his younger brother from playing with it. Unless he has secrets of national defense stored on this thing that I don't know about, he has no business putting a password on it in the first place. It's off to the Apple store for us.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Day 209 - Thursday, July 28, 2011
Day 209 - Thursday, July 28, 2011 - And we HAVE a WALKER!!! Finally! Go Ashton!!
Day 208 - Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Day 208 - Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - I wish sound could come through in a photo. I told Owen I would read him a book if he got one from his room and met me in my bed. He grabbed a favorite, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and dove under my covers thinking I couldn't see him there. But he was giggling so loud that even if he would have managed to cover himself completely, I would have heard him there.
Day 207 - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Day 207 - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - I told Owen that he could play the XBox if he and Ronnie cleaned the basement. He enthusiastically told me that he and Ronnie had already cleaned the basement, so I asked him to take some pictures as proof. He came back upstairs having taken about 20 photos, of every angle of every room of a spotless basement, including the BATHROOM!
Day 206 - Monday, July 25, 2011
Day 206 - Monday, July 25, 2011 - Baseball ended yesterday, and football conditioning officially began today. Coach Schlicht works with Liam and some of the boys. I LOVE football season, but I'm not ready for fall to begin just yet.
Day 205 - Sunday, July 24, 2011
Day 205 - Sunday, July 24, 2011 - Liam's Oxford Tigers tournament team after their last game of the short tournament season...at Seymour Lake Park in Oxford.
Day 204 - Saturday, July 23, 2011
Day 204 - Saturday, July 23, 2011 - We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Christmas in July at Julie and Win's house. We went for rides on the pontoon boat, played bean bag toss, had squirt gun fights, and sipped on cold beverages in the hot sun.
Day 203 - Friday, July 22, 2011
Day 203 - Friday, July 22, 2011 - Have I said this before? There is never a dull moment with Owen!! What does one do when served bun-less hot dogs for dinner? Why, everyone knows, you grab a chopstick, skewer the dog, and...VOILA! Hotdogonachopstick is suddenly what's for dinner.
Day 202 - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Day 202 - Thursday, July 21, 2011 - Impromptu visit from Amy was just what the doctor ordered. Thai food, wine, conversation. Much needed girl time.
Day 201 - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Day 201 - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - Preparing for the first annual Hillary/Jankowski family Christmas in July party.
Day 200 - Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Day 200 - Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - Liam was invited to help Mitchell at an indoor carnival that Renee hosted for her residents at the Lake Orion Nursing Center. They thoroughly enjoyed their day dressed as clowns, eating cotton candy, and playing games.
Day 199 - Monday, July 18, 2011
Day 199 - Monday, July 18, 2011 - I hosted Monday Funday dinner at Camp Hillary with a couple of moms and their kids. It was overcast but that didn't stop the kids from going to town making a mud river on the beach. (from left, Katrina, Catie, Sam, Kaitlyn, and Owen in front)
Day 198 - Sunday, July 17, 2011
Day 198 - Sunday, July 17, 2011 - As Kevin took off for a two week business trip to Europe, the boys and I joined the Petoskeys on Lake Orion. As we were slowly tooling around the lake, a young lady on a passing pontoon boat said, "That's the most good looking boys on one boat that I've ever seen." I think every single one of them blushed. Except for Owen.
Day 197 - Saturday, July 16, 2011
Day 197 - Saturday, July 16, 2011 - My cousin Curtis came to stay with us for a couple of nights. He loved playing with the baby, and Ashton seemed intrigued by Curtis, too.
Day 196 - Friday, July 15, 2011
Day 196 - Friday, July 15, 2011 - Amy and I have been taking a Yin Yoga class at Soothe Your Soul for the past couple of Fridays. This type of Yoga stretches your joints. The mind, body, spirit connection during this practice is palpable. Sad to see this four week session come to a close.
Day 195 - Thursday, July 14, 2011
Day 195 - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - Tonight at midnight was the opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part two. The theater was packed and several showed up in costume, including someone Jordyn knew from school who came as a Death Eater. Jordyn borrowed his costume to snap a quick pic.
Day 194 - Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Day 194 - Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - Jordyn and Alicia golfing at Oxford Hills. Teeing off at 7:30 am!
Day 193 - Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Day 193 - Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - Jordyn making banana nut bread. Yum.
Day 192 - Monday, July 11, 2011
Day 192 - Monday, July 11, 2011 - I accidentally left my camera in the car that Kevin drives to Indiana every week. So, I asked him to take some pictures of his surroundings at the hotel where he has been living every Monday - Thursday since November of 2009. This is the only picture that he took. Really, Kevin? I could have downloaded this from the LaQuinta Inn website. Thanks for the glimpse into your home away from home.
Day 191 - Sunday, July 10, 2011
Day 191 - Sunday, July 10, 2011 - Kevin gives Ashton his first taste of ice cream. He likes it! He likes it!
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