Mass for the opening of the school year

Here is Professor Spoonhower in his garb.

 

Picnic after mass.

"Cheese!"

 

Despite the bored look on his face, Sean did have a good time and asked when the next quad picnic will be. He is happy to be here! There is a lot going on so he has had lots of new adventures!

Mmm.... chips

South Bend or bust

Jeff received an offer from the Film, Television, and Theatre Department at the University of Notre Dame to teach as a visiting professor for this school year. So we have packed our bags and are now living less than a mile from campus. This whole process has happened so quickly that I have hardly had time to think about the big picture and what this all means! It seems like a strange dream. Not bad, but just weird. It's probably good that we have been so busy because I haven't had time to think about missing home too much. There has been so much going on here getting Sean registered for a new school, Jeff having approximately three orientation meetings per day, followed by things not working and trying to get a new house set up, we are exhausted!

Anyway, we got the move off to a good start on the morning of Jeff's birthday with a birthday party in the truck. I must say the kids thoroughly enjoyed it and were so excited about the doughnuts and the truck and the dolly and the boxes and the ramp and "MOVING TO INDIANA!" that I am amazed that the truck even got packed with them running all over the place!

 

 

We went inside to open the gifts so we didn't make a bigger mess of the truck.

I looked away for one minute and turned around to see Sean dressed like this:

I got a little concerned about his interest in wearing a tshirt as a skirt until he explained that he was dressing up like a carrot.

 

Teresa got some gifts too as Grandma and Grandpa Spoon were visiting and won't see her on her birthday. She got lots of new cool toys, which she has graciously allowed Sean to play with as well. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Little painter

Well, at least she had fun, even if she did not figure out that the paint is supposed to go on the paper.

 

Antique car parade

Every year Hamilton holds an Antique Car Show and Parade. This year I took the kids to check out the cars parked in the morning before the parade. I know that owning these kinds of cars is really impractical, but holy cow it would be a lot of fun! Here are a few of my favorites.

Just fyi that Trans Am above is for sale..... 

 The Hamilton hippie van! We talk about Hippie Vans a lot at home because we have a couple of toy ones (and Beetles, too), so it has even made its way into Teresa's vocabulary as "Hippie Ban." So cute.

The interior of the hippie van.

Sean loved this Ford F-100. He has a toy one just like it.

They enjoyed sitting in the back of this old bus. The parade even had old fire engines, tow trucks, and all sorts of other vehicles besides cars.

Oh wait! How did this 1998 Chevy Prizm make its way onto this blog post? Well, while we are on the topic of cars, I must tell the story of the day we were pulling out of our parking spot at the Y and a lady backed into us. She paid out of pocket about half of what the car is worth to put a new door on this beauty. Hilarious!