Christmas Day

After 30-40? some odd years Christmas is no longer held at my parents home. My dad said it was getting too much for him. Christine and I decided to alternate years, she took this year.

It turned out fantastic, Chris lives in such a cute bungalow full of charm that it makes me miss our big old home in Oak Park. I also grew up in a bungalow in Beverly

The meal was wonderful and almost all vegan as there are only few meat eaters left.

Hard to believe there is only a year between My Niece and Karrick. My niece is just stunning! 

What do you get the man that has everything? Why a Keurig of course!

Tim and I bought one about a month ago...Love it, just love it!

 Due to the large group of people long tables were set up in the basement so we could all eat together. It was a great family Christmas and I like the new tradition that has started

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve is always spent in Long Grove. We started around noon and had a full day of family, food, fun and snowmobiling.

 It was a wonderful relaxing day 

Christmas part 1

check out his awesome green and yellow eyes 

Christmas started on Monday night when Riley came home with us. He is a 13 week old male kitten. Just the sweetest, snuggly little  guy ever. Im not a cat lover, but boy oh boy he has my heart.

The boys have been asking for a kitten for a while. Tim and I went to the Hinsdale Humane society and we were led into the kitten room. Riley and his sister both stuck their paws out of the cage when we walked in. All the other kittens just laid there.

Grandma got all the necessities a kitten could possibly need for the boys for Christmas

Merry Christmas from Family Values

                                       

Each day this week Family Values is releasing a new holiday greeting video

     Happy Holidays from Family Values

I love this group of people, what a gift to be part of this project

TJ's music video is released!

Tj on left in black cap

Ashley Lauren's music video "Warriors reloaded" was released this morning. I loved it, it brought tears to my eyes. Check out my TJ in it

Warriors Reloaded

http://www.mtv.com/artists/ashley-lauren/videos/369088/?xrs=playershare_fb

Imdb update

TJ McGinty 
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the Week leading up to Christmas-My Boys

The last week has been busy. TJ had a Christmas promotional shoot for Family Values. They made cards for seniors to be delivered to retirement homes and read to the residents

 Karrick had his annual Christmas sing at school. For the 5th year in a row Karrick is front and center...the peanut row

We made gingerbread houses and decorated our tree. Our amazing Concord fir fills our house with the smell of citrus and pine....just amazing!

I even cut off some branches and sent them home with Katie for her mom. She loved them and brought some to work. Crazy tree..love it

My Cal and katie. Cals been out with his buddies a lot...sledding and attending an all nighter game night. 
He took the SAT last weekend

 Karrick's dance classes are in full swing...7 a week all hip hop. He loves to freestyle around the house. We have our first competition in March in Madison WI

 The TJ got new head shots with Socko this week, he looked adorable and Im hoping the picture are just as adorable. After the shoot we stopped in at Lily's Talent Agency to pick up TJ's paycheck and the print agent says "Oh my. you're so tall I love it" Do you want to do live (runway) shows?" A giant YES! came out of TJ's mouth. That is exactly what you want to hear from your agent. This was the first time we met this agent as TJ does mostly on camera stuff

 A cute picture of all the hip Hop boys

We are all looking forward to the next 2 weeks of Christmas break

TJ officially has his own imdb page

TJ has his 1st official credit on his imbd page . I am waiting for 2 more credits to be approved for Divergent and Dhoom3 and later for Chicago PD.

Pretty exciting!
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Album cover for TJ

Check out the cover for Ashley Lauren's new video "Warriors Reloaded" due out Dec 24, 2013. Yep that is TJ 2 to the left of Ashley. Im thinking my boy looks pretty fierce!