Christmas 2015

Christmas this year was wonderful and low key. Christmas eve as always was celebrated in Long Grove. Christmas day was at my sisters house.

I have to say it, but I believe my nephew s the cutest little boy ever created. I just love him to death. He's  sweet, smart, funny and outgoing

 This year Karrick wanted brain challenging puzzles and games...the kid can solve anything. Id give anything to have his brain

The Christmas season was spent together as a family. Tim and I did our annual Oak Brook Mall shopping and dinner. We got the Christmas tree, a Concord fir that has an amazing citrus smell.

Still the worlds cutest couple after 3 1/2 years!!

Karrick and my niece are one year apart and almost a foot different in height. Karrick has grown an inch in the last 2 months so Im hoping the growth spurt is around the corneer

2015 was an incredible year for us Mcgintys...lots of great stuff

I look forward to 2016 as I continue to workout, eat right and spend time with my family.

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

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

Halloween

While Halloween was fun, I still feel cheated. I decorated the house in the rain on Halloween with ghosts that flapped and howled in the wind. I forgot to take pictures of our jack o lanterns and Katie and Cal together in their costumes. I have been so off my game lately, I spent the majority of the week dying  from muscle spasms in my neck, shoulders and skull. I over did it at bootcamp. Ever have a muscle spasm in your neck? So creepy

Callahan went as Dr Who (Eleventh Doctor) and Katie went as Amy Pond, Dr Who's sidekick. She looked just like the picture below. They were totally cute and wore their costumes to school Friday.

Such a Callahan thing to be

Every year I end up making a costume for Karrick, not because I'm crafty, but because he comes up with costumes that you cant buy. This years started with the mask, a really creepy bird mask.

I bought a brown curtain panel on clearance and many bags of feathers that I glued on with spray adhesive. I sewed the panel onto a black long sleeve shirt. It was really kind of scary.

Due to the rain, trick or treating with friends was put om hold. When it finally stopped and 2 of Karrick's girlfriends (friends that are girls) stopped by so he joined them.

We usually have a chairs and fire pit in the driveway and hang outside all night

We went to Stades farm a few weeks ago for pumpkins, it was pretty cool. I had an engagement photo shoot scheduled there so we made it a family event sans TJ...always working

Some of the shots, they really turned out cute and I can't wait to shoot their wedding next year

Mothers Day on the Farm

Mothers Day was celebrated in Long Grove. The weather was amazing! I sat outside and jsut sshot candids of the kids playing

 My Three Sons

Karrick needs only his imagination

 

snow and just being a little boy

The snow fell hard and it was beautiful! Karrick came home from school with a couple buddies and they had a ball with the brothers