03.14.08

Birthdays and Photo shoots

Posted in family, home, photo at 3:50 pm by heidihoho7

so last weekend i visited my family for a bit of a birthday celebration. Trinity turned 7 and my dad turned 57. I hit canoecopia in Madison first, then worked my way south enjoying the fun backroads which i don’t get to drive very often…

Saturday morning we went to dubuque for a mini photo shoot. I sometimes take photos for work, and my sister’s new office was perfect. So i bribed tiff and the kids, kendra and brandon, and even Adam to come with and be my models. I think they turned out pretty good- got some great shots for work but also some funny cute pics of the fam…

Tiffany kept requesting TPS reports, we had a few good laughs… We were pretty lucky in that the kids were very well behaved, we only had a few instances of bennett freaking out a bit… and then adam had a bit of fun with tiff’s little dry erase board…

We ended up pulling up fun websites for the kids to look at, so most of the pictures weren’t even posed. Kendra surfed on knitting websites, the kids checked out funkeys, and tiff showed the kids cool animal planet stuff.

I spent the night at the beltrans and had a slumber party with the kids. We had a great time hanging out!

Sunday was spent back at my parent’s house with a casual lunch. My grandparents came by to join as well as the whole family. We had fun just reminencing about old times and looking at silly pictures of all the halloweens of the past…

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03.03.08

Climbing Comp & Hair Removal

Posted in Climbing at 2:35 pm by heidihoho7

Who knew that climbing comps prompted so much hair removal? well at the latest “No Holds Barred” Climbing competition, held at VE in Warrenville on March 1, they were trying to raise money for the Access Fund. To do so Bela offered up to shave off his “mountain man” goatee. Ralph who was competing at the time and was 1/2 way up a route, yelled out I’ll do it!! Not long after Ethan offered up his mop of hair, and again within just a split second Chad signed up and subjected Ethan to a flock of seagulls hair cut. Kennie also offered up his forehead, which ended up with a smiley face. All in all we raised over $2,000 for the Access Fund!

The comp went pretty smoothly as usual. Claytor MCed again and it seemed like everyone had a good time. For finals i decided to go up on the catwalk again. Ben joined me this year so at least i wasn’t alone The lighting made photos a bit difficult but i had a great view of the women’s advanced which passed right by me. The last picture if of Alex Johnson who won the men’s advanced group.

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