Relay fundraiser at Willet's

What a super night and for an awesome cause. Carie and I attended and meet with many friends to enjoys this great evening. We drank a bottle of bottle, a white, I think and enjoys some wonderful food. We brought home a great dry red. We always enjoy Willet and consider one of the best wineries in IL. If you are ever in Manito, be sure to check them out.

First T-Ball Practice

Tyler had his first t-ball practice last night. The Diamondbacks appear to be a solid team. They look to have lots of team speed and good chemistry. Tyler loved being able to wear his new baseball shoes and try out the new glove. As the lone leftie on the team, we are expecting big things from him vs. right handed tees. Emmy's first practice will be this Saturday, this is the sophomore season of t-ball for her, so she should be more ready for the ins and outs of softball t-ball. Emmy was able to get a little work in last night with Tyler after practice. It is looking like a good season in the making for both of these ball players.

That 70s night

Carrie and I got a chance to volunteer at the ACS Gala. This year's theme was the 70s. It was a great night that raise alot of money to help fight cancer

Well it has been a while since our last post but here are some updates. Emmy now was two seasons of indoor soccer under her belt and when she is not dancing or singing is a pretty good player. She really likes to play goalie. Her favorite thing to do at the moment is tumbling class. She love working on cart wheels and back bends. She has gotten really good at controlling her body. Tyler has also finished up a soccer camp. Emmy and Tyler will both be playing t-ball this summer and can not wait.

Christmas Catch Up

It is amazing that Christmas has come and gone once more. It was truely a blessed eent agian this year. The Newman's did some traveling and took lots of pictures. We took the kids to downtown Chciago, they had never been so it was a big deal to them. Christmas week had us visting the cousins in Macomb. family brunch in Peoria and dinner in Dunlap on Chrismas day. Check out all the pictures of the great holiday.

Good Morning America and Dad/Kid's Video Game Day

Well it has been a huge week. I got to be part of the Good Morning America Great American Job Fair in Chicago. There were over 2000 people that attended a job fair that started at 5:00am. People started lining up around 2:30am. When I arrived to finish setting up the booth 300 people are standing in line waiting to get in. The fair was very positive yet some what sad at the same time. There were 60 employers there and each average 3-4 openings. That figures to be only about 240 jobs that 2000 people were hoping for only 12% weer gong to get jobs that day. It makes me very thankful to have a job and it is an added bonus that I work for an awesome company. I did get to see my back on TV for about 3 seconds. No future movie star career from that. 5 was also interviewed by the Chicago Sun Times for about 10 minutes, they took pictures of me and my booth but I think I ended up on the editor's floor. Oh well, it did not take away from the greatness of the event.
This Saturday, with Carrie safety shopping in Chicago with her sister, Emmy, Tyler, and I played video games for six hours. We start our morning with normal breakfast for everyone and then went and rented three new games, 2 for the Wii and 1 for the PS2. We had to get Tyler a haircut which is finally starting to look better and run some errands. We stop and ate and Subway and then headed home for our video game marathon. Tyler got to pick first,since he is the youngest, and chose Carnival Mini Golf. Tyler has this game on his Christmas list so we wanted to try it out. It proved to be a big hit not only with Tyler but everyone else. I would highly recommend this game to anyone, it is very fun. Emmy choice was Petz 2. Emmy also wants this game for Christmas. I could be the stupidest game ever but Emmy liked it. Interesting side note, the bad gut in this game is a wolf and guess who woke up last night with nightmares about a wolf???? Our last game to try was the new Guitar Hero. We had fun playing the guitar and singing along. There is something wonderfully twisted hearing your children sing Joker by Steve Miller. We also pulled out Disney DDR and High School Musical-Sing it! These are tow of our faves that we try to play when we get the chance. Carrie came home to sleeping children and brought us all new stuff from her shopping trip. She will have to get on and talk about that.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and God's blessings to you all

Since August

I can not believe it has been this long since the last post. It has been crazy here in the Newman family. September brought first day of school for both Emmy and Tyler.

Our annual trip to the Apple Orchard

Carrie and I went to the Ryder Cup and saw the USA finally win back the cup. We were also able to finish off the last of the bourbon distilleries. We have finally seen them all and are ready to start over.

October brought on Cousin Jack's birthday, Emmy's Pumpkin theme birthday, Oktoberfest at cousins Ron and Steph's, trip to Food and Wine Fest for Carrie and I and Emmy's birthday trip to Great Wolf Lodge in the Dells. Emmy's birthday trip was during Halloween so we had great weather, trick-or-treats, water slides, and lots of great food. We sure do try to do as much a possible in the time we get together. This list doesn't include fantasy football draft parties, trips to Wildlife and Miller Park Zoo.
November is looking to be just as busy. I love getting ready for the holidays, they just seem to happen so fast anymore. We had a great wine tasting event at Mackinaw Winery, Emmy finished up her tumbling class, gave midterms at ICC, and getting ready for Thanksgiving at the Chatts. What a busy month already. I may be on GMA on Thursday, I will post more later