3rd Annual Christmas Tree Hunt

by

The Hallowell and Waas Family

Villainous Hacker...

Heh-hem

**clears throat noisily**


To Queen Stephanie and her court (which is mostly comprised of jesters):


This is to inform you that as of this fine day in NOVEMBER, the people demand an updated post. That requires the members of her highness's high staff to allow the queen serious amounts of rest, relaxation, and adequate access to the royal computer. She shall no longer water low-hanging fruit, cook delicious meals, or pick up the high staff's tinker toys around the castle until a new post has been created.

The people are advised of the Queen's complicated schedule, extenuating circumstances, and the fact that her birthday is approaching lending way to age-related dementia and early Alzheimer's. As such, the people agree to short posts consisting primarily of pictures - we don't even need captions, allowing our own imaginations to tell the story...we have vivid minds, you'd hate to deprive us.

**stares off into the distance in deep, mischievous thought**

**shakes head to clear the naughty thoughts and return to duty**

As is evidence by this post, the people have hacked into the royal blog and will take it over unless our demands are met. Be advised that such a take-over will not be flattering to any Hallowellish parties and may include photoshopped propoganda, Sesame Street characters, gold shirts, or Bohemian Fruit Festivals. You do NOT want to provoke the people. We will rebel and bring down the Hallowell Regime if necessary!

So.........

**heavy sigh**

With love in our hearts and beebee guns at our sides, we post this declaration in hopes of salvaging the fine reputation of a most beloved Queen and her high court.

Signed,
The People

**roll up parchment and return to dirty thoughts**

I'm back.....Did you miss me!!!!

My computer is feeling much better, thanks to Mom H. I have been very busy since my last post and I know everyone has been bugging me to update it, so here goes. It is now June and Michael and I are on summer break. Ok, maybe just Michael is on summer break. Sciamanna (another director) and I got sucked into running a summer Program for 5 weeks, so most of my summer will consist of Chester Community Charter School. I have also just finished a graduate class at Neumann, so I feel much smarter now!!! I figured it would be just easier to add pictures of what has happened in the last couple of months, instead of writing about it. They say a picture says a thousand words, so here goes......

Introducing Betty

Penn's Grove Track

Easter Memories 2009

Mom D's Birthday Fun

Michael's 8th Grade Dinner Dance

BLOG UNDER CONSTRUCTION

We are having difficulty with our computer. Will update when the computer is feeling better.

Busy Weekend

WOW!!! What a busy weekend!!!!
It started off on Friday with me going to take pictures of Zachary going to his 10th grade formal dance. He looked so handsome in his black pants, shirt and black and white tie. His date was wearing a zebra print dress and they looked great together. I will add pictures as soon as my dad sends them to me.

Next, I drove to Downingtown to see Michael play in his indoor soccer playoffs. They one the first and second game (which Michael won the game with his goal of course) and went to the championships, but lost that game. It was a tough game but they played great.

Luke's First Birthday

On Saturday we went to the Waas to celebrate Luke's 1st birthday. I can't believe that he is 1 years old already. We all had a great time. Luke I think had the best time because he got to stuff a big piece of chocolate cake in his face and from the look of the pictures I think he did. He received a lot of cute clothes and fun new toys to play with. Michael and Brent spent most of the party putting together Luke's new play-set. They did a great job working together and made Luke very happy.