Here's some pics of the hula-hooping contest, which Steven Carrey won, beating last year's champion, Lauren Burns.

As you can see, Mr. Harkins won the large watermelon-eating contest...

...and Julia won the small watermelon-eating contest.

 

Above are some of the bubble-blowing contest. I don't know what was with me but I sucked at that game hard core!

 

The first three are pics of the bring-the-greased-watermelon-to-your-opponents'-side activity. The last is one of a race. 

Here's some "swing-time" pics.

 

Here's some pics of when things began to quiet down as everyone was getting ready to say goodbye. Well, maybe not Charlie. 

All right, so that party was a monster blast; great food, great games and activities, great dj and MC (Mr. Maher), great hosts and hostesses, great even just chillin', great fun, great party. But it wasn't the real party that probably everyone was expecting, for the Cranes grandfather went to the hospital and their mom got sick. So let's pray for them both.

Happy 4th of July

Alright well this past week I went to my brother's "Promotion" and he was so cute! He did an awesome job with his speech (lol well with just a little bit of help from my dad). Well on the way down to his school my dad and I saw a head of a moose in the back of a truck. It was just one of thoughs things that you just don't see everyday. Ok well last weekend my grandparents had their 40th wedding anniversary. So all the parents went out to San Fran while all the grand-kids hung out at tyler's...New house, and had a lot of fun. Now Tyler is here with us for the week hangin out here until we want him to leave. On Friday when the Youth Group went to SF we went to the beach and I caught a con-artist trying to act a fake injury. The lady said that this dog owner's dog ran into her but the dog wasn't even near her and I saw the whole thing, so the police came and paramedic and I had to give a statement and tell everyone what happened...A lot. So I might get a call from the police sometime this week and maybe go to court if that lady prosecutes (yip) :-. Alright hopefully this posy will do for now. Oh and Happy 4th of July just in case I don't see any of you tomorrow.

Peace from Sactown,
Shan,M

Happy Belated Father's Day To All The Dad's Out There!

Well I blew it I was gone all day yesterday visiting with my grandparents and family that I didn't have time to post something for my dad. Better late then never...Right? Ok, whenever I look through an album or a few pictures I don't really ever see the dad. I looked through my mom's photo album and didn't see my grandfather alot, only in a "ask someone else" photo and get one with the whole family in front of something. And it was the same with my other grandfather, I never really ever saw a picture of my grandfather's picture around the house in an album or in a picture. So I asked both of them "why aren't you in any of these pictures?" and well they said that they were too busy getting the rest of the family in the pictures or there wasn't anyone around, and tons of other excuses. So I decided to go look and see if my dad was in any of the pictures that we had and I found a lot. There were some oh him and me when I was a baby,going to school,kindergarten,first tooth, with Conor and Birdy. Hahaha, but most of the time what my dad would do was video tape everything. He would video tape the while family. LOL there is one thing that my dad would do and that was on every Birthday he would "interview all of us me,ConMan, and Birdy. He would ask who was the president back then, or what our favorite color was, he would ask us a Math question, just random stuff. So anyways I was very happy to see that my dad (being the CamWiz that he is) seeing him in alot of these photos and even sometimes being in the videos. So anyways I just wanted to say a Happy Belated Father's Day to all the dad's out there. And to my dad too, for always being there and for me and for being MY dad.

As always,
Shan,M

HEY

THIS IS TYLER ON SHANONNS BLOG SO YEA HEY AND THATS ME SO HA SHANNON!!

Memorial Day

Well for this Memorial Day/weekend my dad went to Washington D.C. with a friend of his. He went to the Tomb of the unknown soldier, the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National cemetery. Then the 3rd picture from the bottom was from my concert with the Mother Load Youth Symphony (But that was only just the strings playing in that pic). My mom and my brother and sister and I went to Napa to see my Grandparents and visit with some of the family over there for the weekend. Now what did all of you do for Memorial Day?

As Always,
Shan,M

"THIS IS AMERICAN IDOL"

So since American Idol is such a big hit on my blog I'll post apic of them for some of you who don't really watch it. Now Taylor Hicks and Katherine McPhee are the finalists and they are BOTH very good. Sadly Elliott Yamin (Damien's Fav) Was voted off last week. And it was REALLY close. They showed the vote and here is what it was...Katherine: 33.68% Taylor: 33.26% and Elliott was 33.06% percent. Over 50 million voted last week! It was amazing that they all were THAT close. So now Taylor and Kat are going to perform Tuesday and Wednesday America will know who is the next American Idol will be. I think Taylor should AND will win. Sorry Des but Kat can ALWAYS get a contract, she'll survive don't worry ;-) . I hope you all vote...FOR TAYLOR :-D!!!!

Shan,M

No more crutches!!!

Well I just got back from the doctors and I have good news...and sadly some bad news. But its ok, I think there's no need to worry. Its just a tiny thing that wont make a difference in anyway. Do you want the good news first or the bad news? Ok well I'll tell ya anyway (and I think you all want to know now right?). Ok heres the good news... My doctor does'nt want to do surgery (maybe cuz he's to scared now to do it) and I don't have to use thoughs HORRIBLE crutches anymore! Ok now the bad news....I have to wear 2 braces (But I'm not sure for how long) and my RIGHT knee (the one that did'nt have surgery) is at any moment about to dislocate at anytime, anywhere. So my doctor is just waiting til that one dislocates (Is'nt he a wonderful doctor??) so he can put me under and operate. Now the left one is just fine to be honest. All I need to do is go to P.T. (which means Physical Therapy) but the P.T. office wont let me go back because in the beginning of the year they would'nt let anyone in who was from Sutter Memorial because of...you wont believe it but MONEY! For some odd reason they wont let ANYONE in now because of the money. What kind of world are we in now??? Its just sad. So now I have to go all the way to Folsom and go to another Physical Therapist. So I guess in all, its good news for me...until I dislocate the right one, then it will get interesting :D. Well until next time!

As Always,

Shan,M

Haha I can walk just can't kneel yet....darn ;-)

Primus _incognitorum06

Alright everyone...it has been decided that it is time to reveal to the world who the heck primus_incognitorum06 is. :-D

First off I want to congratulate those who were able to figure it all out. (Irene and Jonathan, you two did a wonderful job! Though the *ahem* cheater....well...I guess you did what you had to do)
And to those who weren't able to figure it out....we have to thank you for the tons of fun you gave us. You have no idea how much fun it was to lead you around and around in circles. The guesses you made were often hilarious.

Here are the names of the honorary members of Anonymous:
Elaine Dana, our leader and founder who came up with this brilliant idea.
Catherine Dugyon, who came up with the name and put it into being.
Jonathan Crane, who was the first and only one to figure it out on his own. (Irene.....wasn't accepted because she was found unworthy to be received into Anonymous)

I hope you'll forgive us for the numerous loopholes we used. If we had answered your questions word for word the game would have been over way too quickly!

Once again, thank you all for playing. It has been a most enjoyable experience!

Kat

Dear Friends,

Ok.....to save this blog from dying, I guess I'll have to post. How are ya'll doing? I am proud to say that I am *ahem* done with school!! (mostly) Except for latin, which never seems to end. ;-) Shan said earlier that her days are occupied by parties, baseball games, and cello. But since we all aren't as....fortunate as her, what have you all been up to lately? As for me, it seems that we've been having more and more parties every week. Some of them aren't exactly "parties" more like hanging out and chilling but those count too. :-D
I now have less than two weeks until my departure. (which is probably why I am partying out like no other) and I am sooo excited!! But I thought I should ask one question before I forget and then it'll be too late: How many of you would want a little present. Except for Des, she gets a special one because she guessed the right pic....Lance cheated when he guessed the song so he might not get anything at all. (Unless, of course, I change my mind because I am so nice ;->)
Anyway, that's all for now....not much of a post but at least it shows that this blog is not DEAD!! Right, Shan?


Per meus contemplor,
Kat

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!!!
I can't believe that I can finally listen to Rock n' Roll again!!! Oh and congrats to all the Alter Boys for doing a FANTASTIC job for Vigil Mass. The mass was beautiful! Alright what are you all doing for Easter/today? I'm going to both of my grandparents and intend to listen to music all day ;-D! Alright I'm a little tired from staying up til 5 am partying :-D

Until next time,

Shannon

P.S. I Beleive in the Easter Bunny!

I just thought you all might want to know that...

My Birthday is in 9 days!!! Yay!!! I love this time of the year! Alright if you know of anyone who's Birthday is this month, yell their name out!!! Haha I remember when my birthday was on Good-Friday last year I think it was...That was a nightmare ;-D!
Anyways, Happy Birthday to whoever has B-days this month!!

Shannon

Six inches in 2006

To my Dear Bloggers,
This mourning we had snow we had at least 6 inches of snow!!!My dad woke us all up and said "C'mon family meeting kids lets go I hve to tell you somthing" (and keep in mind it was 6 i the mourig) and everyone thought that someone had died from my dads face...but instead he yelled out WE HAVE SNOW!!! It was all over and sooooo awesome! I wish we had a snow day like this all winter long. There were tons of kids out, and some Adults tied thier snow boards to the back of thier trucks and were snow boarding all mourning going up and down our hill!!!Oh And it was Skippers FIRST snow! He had know idea what to do he was so happy! Here are some pictures of our snow day in El Dorado Hills...
ENJOY!!!

And the Oscar goes to...?

Saturday/Sunday on Shannons Blog: The Academy Awards
I'm your Host for this weekend, Shannon Maher...
The Academy Awards is on tomorrow at 5PM PT/8PM ET. I love watching the Red Carpet ;-D It gets pretty funny when TV Hosts talk about EVERYONES gowns and suits and whatever else these people now a days wear ;-) . Ok I hope you all will get a little time on the computer tomorrow. So my question for all you folks out there, who's your FAVORITE Actor/Actress?I'm gonna have to go now so until next weekend on...SHANNONS BLOG!!!

Shannon