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:headache: forgot to :cheer2: janet on her 8000!!!! :woohoo:

CONGRATS TO YOU! CONGRATS TO YOU! DONTCHA THINK YOU SHOULD CELEBRATE AT THE BIG U?
Thanks - I'd like to thank the DISboard from keeping me off the streetspopcorn::
i'm ready to turn off the Ding on desktop, keep hoping i'll see a cheap-o fare for the 1st week of Aug...DH has a week's vacation:rolleyes1 . course i haven't even gotten the bill for last one.

pricing out 3 days @ Cedar Point/Geagua Lake/Hershey (OMG the hotels are expensive there:scared1: ) or Kings Dominion...still not sure which one to pick. I'm leaning towards the cheapest GL lol, haven't been to any of the others yet.

Just keep remembering your comment about "worst western" @ KDominion:rotfl: and it's a 6 hour drive too...could just as easily hit Ocean City, MD.
 
Okay, a couple more batches of pics for you guys here. Be glad that I'm not going to subject you to the 200 shots DH took this weekend at the soccer tournament! These are the going to camp shots!

DS waiting for the ferry, which we took across from Milwaukee to Muskegon to eliminate 6 hours of driving and not have to go through Chicago (yes his mouth is blue from a ring pop!):

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Pulling into Muskegon on the ferry:

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I met another DIS'er on the Focker Watch thread who lived just minutes from his camp. She's the one who got me the lime green Focker Watcher lanyards and we decided to do a quick meet. Got ice cream and a quick chance to socialize. She has her DIS shirt and I'm in my lime green baggallini:

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Me and DS in his cabin at camp saying goodbye. I'm much sadder about it than he is (Aren't you gone yet?):

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Next batch will be a few of him and his friend at camp.
 

Love the blue teeth. I had to look in a few different angles and then saw that you posted "blue teeth". Thought it was my computer!
 
marci - great pics, your son will be thrilled to know you posted that pic;)
 
a/n - sounds like you travel alot:cool1: , hobnobbing with royalty;) . My ignorance is showing, not familiar w/term wharf people...is it a regional connotation?



Yes, we do travel a lot! :) In fact, my brother called us the other day and left a message: "You're not home so you're either working, in Maine, in Orlando, or on a cruise." He's pretty much right.

"Wharf people" just means that we spend an inordinate amount of time at the Arundel Wharf, sitting outside and watching the boats, having lunch, (and, ummm, drinking beers too, I guess). Their website really doesn't do it much justice: http://arundelwharf.com/home.html



I am still reading and catching up. What's big news?

I see we have some new homies today. Welcome!
 
Actually, he's still at the age where he could care less. Now in a couple years, when he's 15 like my oldest, then suddenly someone seeing them "not perfect" could be the worst thing in the world. But at 12, so what?

Okay, the last few pics I'll subject you guys to! Some camp ones of DS and his friend. They were best friends in 2nd through 5th grade, then we moved last summer so haven't been together for a year. So met at camp for a couple weeks to regroup and have fun (they're from near Detroit, we're now from Green Bay!).

Them in a practice shelter:

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In front of their cabin:

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In front of the "Blue Lake", hence the name of the camp!

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And best buddies!

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Guess that's all the pics until we get back from Disney! (I can hear some of you guys saying "Thank Goodness!")
 
Here's to hoping I have mastered the multi quotes thing! Wow, today was just the most beautiful summer day weatherwise. Its 80 degrees with a cool breeze blowin, and no bugs :banana: :banana:
I'm heading out for a walk when I'm done talking to ya'll. Trying to lose a few pounds. :laughing:

Today was our 24th wedding anniversary so we went to the Keg. Do you guys have the Keg?
Congratulations damo! Thats no small feat. We're heading toward our 20th. 2nd time around for both of us.

tonight i am seeing Potter (sharon, ever been to the westbrook 16 cinemas?)

Nope, have not been there yet. The kids and their went there last night and saw Potter. They really liked it. The first night that it opened at the theater I was heading to the airport to pick up my Mom around 10:30 and couldnt believe the amount of cars in and around the parking lot. They were parked on the street way back to the intersection of Spring St and just as far in the other direction. There really isn't room on the street for cars to park. It's a wonder no-one got hurt seeing as it was dark, foggy and not very well lit.
Hope you enjoy the movie. Have some popcorn for me! :yay:


Meanwhile, our laptop has opted not to work any longer. Well, it works, but won't do wifi anymore and none of the USB cords can connect to it anymore. So it's effectively useless since it can't print to the regular printer or do internet. DH has decided it's not worth fixing (we've tried about 5 times over the past few years - it has serious problems), so he bought a new Apple notebook while he was in Minneapolis this weekend. Which means that rather than helping me pack for Disney (10 day!), he's going to spend the next week playing with his new toy! Sigh!
Don't get me started on men and their toys. :rolleyes: Hubby just bought himself one of those new Blu Ray DVD players. If you ask me, the movie does'nt look any different than on the old DVD player :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

Both my kids are away at University next year, so we should be able to do as we please!
I have one in college, she's on the 6 year plan for a 4 year degree I think. She's annoying me to no end. How can you take 4 classes and drop one, and get 2 D's and a C. Now she has to take the classes with the D's over again.
:mad: My son has one more year of high school. We are spending most of this summer visiting colleges. Its been fun!
Friend of my son's (he's 18) just rolled his car yesterday and broke his leg. These teenage drivers are scary. He said he fell asleep at the wheel. How they can stay up until 4 in the morning but fall asleep taking their girlfriend home 5 minutes away, is beyond me. It's no wonder insurance for young males is so expensive.[/QUOTE]
My son has had his license now for 2 months. It doesn't get much easier with the 2nd one. And the cost of his insurance, YIKES!

in Illinois the driving laws changed last year. we have the graduating driving laws for teens. have to have many hours of supervised behind the wheel with a licensed driver with you. for the first 6 months, no night driving. no more than one other person in the car until age 17 except for a family member. each year up thru 19 has different rules.
We have something similar here in Maine. It's been great to know that he can't have any of his friends in the truck with him for 6 months.

In fact, my brother called us the
"Wharf people" just means that we spend an inordinate amount of time at the Arundel Wharf, sitting outside and watching the boats, having lunch, (and, ummm, drinking beers too, I guess). Their website really doesn't do it much justice: http://arundelwharf.com/home.html
I was wondering if anyone was going to ask what a wharf person was!!!
I havn't been there yet, but we have similar restaurante here in Portland. In fact, my sister lives on a island off the coast, and the only way to visit her is to take the ferry. It's a nice ride in the summer, not so much in the winter!


Okay, the last few pics I'll subject you guys to! Some camp ones of DS and his friend. They were best friends in 2nd through 5th grade, then we moved last summer so haven't been together for a year. So met at camp for a couple weeks to regroup and have fun (they're from near Detroit, we're now from Green Bay!).

Is this a music camp?? What does he play?

Time to head out for that walk before it gets dark or I get lazy. I'll be back later:woohoo: :woohoo:
 
Im a teenage driver and were not all scary!! Over here we start learing when we are 17 (not much better than 16). In my school, all those who passed their test bar 2 or 3 crashed in the 1st month of passing! How scary (I didn't though!! woohooo).

My friend crashed her car just outside my school and our new dept head mistress (cow) came out and tutted before saying "ohhh that going to boost your insurance wayy up- too bad!" then walked away leaving my friend in tears! grrrr! (lol wayyy off topic but she also banned us wearing socks with our uniform in case any boys saw- lol)

Anyway moral of the story- many many many teenage drivers are scary- but not all (me!!! lol)
 
the only time i thought teen drivers were scary was when i was in the car with them driving.


i only took each boy out one time and quit.

i turned that job over to mr mac to handle.


gemma, i'm sure you are a super driver!
 
Is this a music camp?? What does he play?

It would be easier to answer what he doesn't play - the sax! Pretty much everything else. He's played the piano forever and even won some scholarships for it - this is his forte. However, he's been determined to play nearly every other instrument. In 4th grade he played violin in orchestra and trumpet and clarinet in band. (His school offered brass and woodwinds on different days). He went to this camp that summer for trumpet.

In 5th grade he played tuba and flute. This year in band he switched from flute to percussion (you know, because they're so similar :rolleyes1 ) and does tuba still. He actually has a drum set, though, and has taken lessons on that for many years so picking up percussion in school wasn't hard. That's what he's doing at camp - according to the long, detailed (at least 2 sentences!) letter I just got from him, he's mostly playing the timpani.

He auditioned this spring for the Wisconsin state middle school honors band (in tuba) and was accepted (which is good because it was 6-8th graders and he was a 6th grader). They took about 20 percent of the applicants. So he has music to work on over the summer then in October they go away to a mini-camp and perform in Madison over a weekend.

However, in the meantime, he's taught himself his brothers' French Horn and Bassoon, and plays the guitar and electric guitar well too. He was frustrated he didn't know the trombone, so a couple months ago used his money to rent one for a couple months. At the end of the first evening he had caught up to what his class was playing and played that in Jazz Band this summer at school. So...did I miss any? He doesn't play the sax - did I mention that? :rotfl:
 
wowww! you have a very talented son marcie!! I tried to play the clarinet and piano- didnt work.
 
marcie, you better watch that movie "american pie"


catch the part about the band camp......:rolleyes1
 
"And there was this one time...at band camp...and we didn't have our music...but we played anyway...and nobody knew what they were doing- IT WAS SO FUNNY!"
 
marcie, decided to come back to say i was just kiddinng.

since we don't know each other totally, i hope you didn't take what i said the wrong way.

i'm a big kidder.


i think your son is super!
so talented and gifted in music.


i know you are proud of him
 
"And there was this one time...at band camp...and we didn't have our music...but we played anyway...and nobody knew what they were doing- IT WAS SO FUNNY!"

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and the girl at the near end of the movie was a hoot.

when she talks about what they really do at band camp.

great movie, loved it....
 
Wow, he's one talented kid. If he's like my son, to get him to spend his own money is tough, he must have really wanted to learn to play that trombone!
My son plays percussion. He was in the honors band during middle school too.
So far, he has made All State all three years of high school. He really loves playing in the jazz band and is looking for colleges that have a percussion emsemble or drum line. Everyone always asks me how I can put up with the noise from the drumset, but you know what, if he is playing something with a beat, not just bashing them, its really not too bad...or maybe I'm just going deaf!
 
my boys have never been in jail.









ok, they weren't musically inclined. just wanted to brag on mine.....jk:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:
 
my boys have never been in jail.









ok, they weren't musically inclined. just wanted to brag on mine.....jk:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

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yeah well.....well....court can stick her fist in her mouth, and she can bend her leg to her shoulder and keep it right up next to her body - pretty flexible little minx!! LOL!!! Seriously though, anything athletic court touches she excels in.....Kait was reading chapter books at just before 4 and is also athletic (especially with softball) and frank....well frank.....he ....um......he's really cute and has a VERY active imagination - and he seems to be more mechanically inclined - yeah - we'll go with that :thumbsup2



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