Blue and Gold Game

Today we all went to our 1st Notre Dame game, the annual spring blue and gold game. Our day started bright an early with a drive to South Bend. Once we arrived many of our friends were already there an enjoying the tailgating festivities. We went to kid fest, there Caleb and some of the other kids got to play video games, got balloon creations and played many games of bags to win different prizes. It was a lot of fun...our favorite prize was probably from the National Guard...Rain Ponchos! Below are a few pictures from our eventful day! Enjoy!

Curious about what we have been up to??

In January Jim’s mom bought us tickets to go see Curious George Live. We had a wonderful time. Before the show the 3 of us went to dinner at Portillo’s. Then we went at saw Curious George Live. It was a very cute show about meatballs and George traveling to Italy to fix what he had messed up. Enjoy the pictures below.

JDRF Team Thornberry

The last weekend in September the Thornberry's got together as a team to walk for Juvenile Diabetes. Jim's dad started the team last year and together we were all able to participate again this year. Our team all together was able to raise $685.00 in support of diabetes research.
Way to go Team Thornberry:

Back Row: Jim, Aunt Sandy, Denise and Jim Sr. Middle Row: Kara,Syerra and Heather Front Row: Jade and Caleb

Jim, Caleb and Kara JDRF Walk Hidden Lake

The walk has a lot of activities for families and events for kids. Caleb and his cousin Jade were able to pose as a pirate and a princess.

Caleb was also able to practice his basketball shooting skills.

A view of the walk and it's festivities.

We would like to take this opportunity to THANK all our family and friends who supported our walk by donating to our team! Thank you all!!!

Flag Football

Fall is upon us and flag football has become a part of our weekends for the next several weeks. The photos and video below are from Caleb's second game. We took the video camera to his first game but when we opened it to take pictures and record the battery was dead (oh well we came prepared for week 2). Caleb is loving all the fast action and fun of flag football. Go Caleb...Go Bears...Go Steelers!!!

A hole, some paint, flowers and a door

This past weekend we had the wonderful pleasure of having my parents in to visit. It was an extremely productive weekend around the house both inside and out. Dad and Jim worked on fixing a leak in the basement which meant having to dig up a small area beside the house...hence a hole! Then Jim and Caleb did a little painting on some of the wood work around the house for it was starting to chip so they scraped off the old paint and applied the new...hence some paint!! Mom and I were able to move some of the flower from the front of the house and plant some very hardy mums, iris', daffodils, and tulips...hence flowers! Finally one of the major projects completed this weekend was the installation of a new screen door in the front of our house...hence a door!! There were many fun times where we all laughed...and by working together we accomplished a lot! I want to thank my parents for taking time off work to travel out here to help us get a few projects done around the house!!

Labor Day Fun

Last Monday we spent the day with Jim's dad, Denise, sisters, brother, nieces, and nephew. It was so nice. In the morning Caleb and I made Rice Krispy Treats together for the afternoon picnic. Once we got to the Thornberry household in Hobart the fun began. We had a wonderful time talking and catching up with everyone. Soon Jim and I will be uncle and aunt and Caleb a new cousin to Jim's sister, Heather's, baby boy to be born in October. While Nana cooked a wonderful meal on the grill the little kids and a couple of big kids got the chance to play with the hoover disc. All i can say is that it kept us all entertained for a large part of the day. Check out the video below of our fun times with the totally awesome Hoover Disc!! We hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Labor Day!! Caleb starts flag football soon so stay tuned for some new blogs!!

Start of/back to SCHOOL for 2 of us!!!

Well this past week Caleb started kindergarten and I started back to school. On Wednesday Jim, Sherry (Caleb's mom) and I were all able to take him to his first day of kindergarten!! No tears were shed, but it was a very happy time for our family taking another step into a new direction. Caleb's first week went very well, right now he is attending morning kindergarten. He rides the bus when he with his mom and when he is here with his dad and I Jim will take him and pick him up. He colored a few worksheets, worked on his letters, tracing skills, sung some songs, visited the computer lab and library. I'm sure that we will have many more school stories to tell so stay tuned! I started back and honestly cannot wait until our first break!!!