30th Anniversary

Today is my in-law's 30th anniversary! We had a party yesterday to celebrate. What a great example they are to us & their other kids of a loving marriage.

You can do it. We can help.

Uncle Danny got these Home Depot aprons for Bekah & Joey. They wore them for hours. They LOVE Uncle Danny. He plays with them a lot and is generally just a fun guy.

Let's Go Pens!

Today is the Penguin's first home preseason game. Tim has been so excited for the beginning of the season. That picture is from Ryan's first Penguin game last February.

(In case some of you don't know, Tim is the official organist for the Pittsburgh Penguins.)

The Shirt

So we have this shirt that all 4 of the Pilgrim grandsons have worn. Ryan wore it for the first time this past weekend, so I guess he's officially "in". ;-)

We have taken each child's picture in the shirt with Tim who is wearing a similar shirt. Oddly enough, Tim really doesn't like his version of the shirt, so the only time he wears it anymore is for the picture.

Unfortunately, I can't find the picture of Tim & Joey together digitally, but I did find one of Joey in the shirt, sitting with Rebekah, so that'll do for now.

Ryan & Tim - September 2007

Bekah & Joey - January 2006

Daniel & Uncle Tim (before Lasik) - Winter 2004

Jay & Uncle Tim (sorry about the half-closed eyes on Tim, but in the other picture, Jay was looking at Tim, so you couldn't see his face) - Spring 2003

Hello, Welcome to My House!

My mom taught my kids to say that. :-) This past weekend we installed a new front door on our house. It had been a long time coming. We still have to put up the trim and paint the door, but I think it looks pretty nice! As with every improvement project at our house, it didn't go as smoothly as possible, but we got it in eventually.

Field of Dreams

Tim turns 28 on Wednesday, September 12. Today we had a family party for him. We did a "Field of Dreams" theme. Above is the invitation I sent out. I'm such a dork. hehe.

This afternoon a bunch of the guys went and played baseball for a little while, then came back here for dinner. I made baseball park themed foods - nachos (actually taco salad), French fries, pretzels (made from bread stick dough), cotton candy (whipped cream with pineapple tidbits & blue jello mixed in), hot dogs (pigs in a blanket), and lemonade. We also had chocolate covered pretzel "bats" and popcorn, peanuts & cracker jacks for during the movie.

However, I must say that the best part, and Tim's favorite part, was the cake. I made a 2 layer cookie cake with marshmallows in between layers. He told me he wanted a baseball field cake every year :-)

One Man's Trash...

Last night on my way home from grocery shopping, I saw this car in a neighbor's garbage, so I stopped, threw it in the car, and went home. Joey discovered it this morning - he's thrilled. He's having so much fun with the car - though he hasn't quite figured out the correlation between steering and direction. We'll keep working on it.


And when it's not his turn, he's completely happy to help Bekah by either pushing her around or inspecting the car to make sure every thing is working correctly. Guess he got some of his Grampy's genes.