Our neighbors are rejoicing!! :)

Happy Birthday Aaron!



Happy 13th Birthday Aaron!

It's official - the Hackney 4 now includes a teenager! 

Reality 3:16

Aaron has recently taken up playing the drums.  He and several friends are working on playing together and learning songs to play for the youth service on Wednesday nights at our church.   Their band's name - Reality 3:16.  So Sunday afternoon Paul and I took the kids out for a band photo shoot.  The kids had a lot of fun...truth be told the photographers had just as much fun.  It's been great to watch the kids improving their skills and working together as a band.  Rock on Reality 3:16!!

 

Sunday

Operation TBTH - The saga continues

Part 4 - the garage

Took advantage of the beautiful day to beat the garage back into submission and contain the junk that was starting to creep out from the walls and shelves.  Can now maneuver around the cars a lot easier.  One trip to Goodwill and a huge pile of trash for the guys on Wednesday morning!

Operation TBTH part 3

Time for part 3 of Operation Take Back The House - The dreaded closet in Rachel's room.  It's still full of holdovers from when this room was our office.  Time to make it just for Rachel.  I started with this:

I decided to go with the Peter Walsh - Clean Sweep approach and take everything out which looks like this:

After killing 2 ridiculously huge spiders and hauling it all out my living room looked like this:

After a day and a half of sorting, purging, and tossing we ended up with 2 large bags of trash, 3 boxes for Goodwill, items relocated, and now the closet looks like this:

On an unrelated note, today was Nerd Day at the middle school and Aaron looked like this:

Time to walk with the Pals

It's time once again for the Indianapolis Buddy Walk.  Last year our family had a great time walking with Alli's Pals.  Our team walks to support Allison Schimdt and her family.  Alli's pals was over 125 members strong and was the largest team at the 2009 Indianapolis Buddy Walk.  We are glad for the chance to participate again.  The walk will be held October 23, 2010 at White River State Park in Indianapolis.  The Buddy Walk benefit's Downs Syndrome Indiana.  If you would like to donate toward this worthy cause visit our fundraising page at www.firstgiving.com/heidihackney