Alex #23 wide receiver

HERE WE ARE CATCHING THE BALL!!!




AND HERE WE ARE MISSING THE BALL......
THIS THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON, THE SCORE WAS 28-17, SARATOGA .....



Here is Alex, doesn't he look so happy.....I think he is alive but not really sure!!!



This is as good as it gets with action shots for Alex, I mean come on he is standing up and on the field!
In this shot, Alex is looking for mommy cause he has a boo boo, lol, no really he is...!!!!

Friday Family Fun...lol

See what happens when you ask them to act normal!!!! Alex is trying to catch flies and Shawn is, well, not really sure what he is doing!!!!



OK OK so we want to have some fun too.....GOSH!!!!!!

Diabeties Walk..more like canter..

See what happens when I let Michelle type....Diabetes only has one I, DUH!!!!!!!!! ( fyi she asked me how to spell it !!!)( and still didn't listen)...The day is Sunday the 21st and Jarod, Michelle and I went to the Diabetes walk to support Cody. It was a nice day as they all have been since I have been going... The shirt is a gift from Michelle...Game over....lol......

Apple Pickin

Here we are picking apples, well ok I'm the one picking the boys are eating them and trying to catch the bird!!!! I had a bird for them for sure, but that's another story...lol....and as the norm Michelle is taking pictures. Soon people are going to ask me if there really is a Michelle cause she is never in any pictures...








Doesn't Shawn look like he just bit into something awful....lol....See Shawn apples do grow on trees and not in stores...

Alex is trying to get away with something, that's "the look" that he always uses when he is trying....He has no idea that Michelle and I are star pupils on "the look". Oh well he may learn someday.
Good thing its a rooster and not a chicken, that way none of the boys tried to "choke it"...lol

Football Season

Finally football season is amongst us....It seems to be a battle going on in this household of who is the better team, (there is no battle..GO JETS!!) and right now the Defending WORLD CHAMPIONS NEW YORK GIANTS (oh PLEASE they are not "WORLD" Champions) are the much better team and are showing it very well (ok they have played cream puffs so far but those are the games you got to win).......So the giants will loss against normal teams, and also the Farve induced New York Jets..... GO JETS GO JETS GO JETS!!!!!

Hartmann's Part Three

And this is the way we say goodbye, of course the boys are all ready to get into the box of goodies that we are taking with us.....

From the look at it you would think we just hiked up Pikes Peak, see what fresh air and no TV or video games does to children these days....They are all out cold. The picture of Alex was just as he woke up, he said I wasn't sleeping(but we know he was he had drool everywhere)

Hartmann's Part Two

It's so hard to have everyone looking in the right direction...lol...Oh well next time we are going to have to have a little birdy up over the camera so Shawn will pay attention to that....


At least Alex and Jarod are looking in the correct direction...



Doesn't Michelle look so happy. LOOK AT ME I AM TALLER THEN OPA.....(good thing we didn't get a picture of her 4 inch lifts...)






And finally a shot of me!!!! Opa making sure I take the beer home with me....No worries there....lol.....I think if you look close you can see Alex doing the robot....Just a few more shots of that and we can send them to school and put them in the yearbook...Isn't revenge just sweet for parents......

Hartmann's part one

Well as you can see, we are in the back room of the bakery, and to much of our surprise the boys are all smiling very naturally too....Alex thought at one time he was a break dancer doing the robot( God I hope there are pictures of that)....

Oma, Opa, and the rat pack(Alex,Shawn,Jarod) all in this set of pictures. In the one picture Shawn looks like he is the cat the swallowed the canary....

Lazy Summer Day

Well as you can see, the boys had some time on their hands and drank a few cans of beer...






(ok the big boy did) and then took to the range with the toy guns....







Just look at the concentration of both of them, I think if Alex opens his mouth much more he will catch some flies.....lol....



Shawn just needs to open his
eyes before he shoots,
oh well cant win them all....

First Day of school

Well the first day of school was September 3rd.

Shawn and Alex were sooooooooo thrilled to go back to school.

This is their last year in middle school. They are in 8th grade!!! Can you believe it!



Next year it's high school already for my to little boys...
And I haven't aged at all!!! I'm still 28!!
woooo hooooo


This year Alex is on the football team. He has practice 6 days a week.. He's trying out for the one of the wide receiver spots.





Shawn will either be in wrestling or swim team. His doesn't start till winter.
So they are both just getting back into the rhythm of homework ....