Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is Hollywood Mom's birthday. We are celebrating with a Chinese Dinner and a night in with the kids. Enjoy your evening ... we wouldn't be the Hollywood Four without you! Love Dad, Abby and Andrew!

Click here to view a video we made for Mom a couple year's ago with more good "little Karen" pictures.

Hockey Preseason Game 2

Andrew had his second preseason hockey game tonight (he wore a taped #97 practice jersey as we are still waiting for the official jerseys to come in). It was an away game at Cleveland Heights. It was a tight 0-0 game after one period until the Tigers scored two goals on the Mustangs in the second period. But that would be the extent of the scoring for the night. Penalties hurt the two-line Strongsville Mustangs who were pretty tired by the end of the game playing against the three-line Tigers. Andrew had a solid game with at least one shot on goal in the 0-2 loss.

Pittsburgh Halloween Feis

Today Abby competed at the Pittsburgh Halloween Feis with her friend and fellow O'Hare dancer Jackie. What was neat about this feis was that they were able to wear Halloween costumes if they wanted. So Abby went as a bumble-bee and Jackie went as a lady bug. They were very cute - and very strange as some of the photos and video they took will prove. Abby ended with a 3rd place finish, while Jackie took 2nd place.

Hockey Preseason Game 1

Strongsville (PW3) played Shaker Heights (my title is wrong in the video) yesterday in the Mustangs first pre-season game of the year and their first real test in game action. The first period was competitive with Shaker Heights leading 1-0 at the end. In the second period, Andrew scored the Mustangs first goal of the season - a nice cleanup goal in front of the net. Unfortunately penalties killed the Mustangs as they gave up three short-handed goals and had no power-plays of their own. Despite falling behind 1-4, the Mustangs had a nice comeback push to finish the game 3-5. Some of the kids didn't have their official jersey's yet, including Andrew, so he had to borrow a jersey from "Golubski" (#93). You can also spot Andrew (aka, the Mule) in the video by the orange at the bottom of his hockey stick and his red/white/black socks.

Hockey Practice

I haven't posted much video of Andrew's hockey in a while - even though his Strongsville Youth Hockey Club (SYHC) Pee Wee team has been practicing almost every other day for the past 6 weeks or so. Tonight was his last practice before the "preseason" games begin (first one is this Saturday). So here are a couple quick clips I grabbed (on my cell phone, hence the poor quality). He has made a lot of good progress - as has the entire team - but they still have a lot of work ahead of them.

Homecoming D.A.N.C.E.

Abby went to her first homecoming dance tonight (gasp!). She invited seven of her freshmen friends over for a "girls getting ready" party. They had a fancy pizza dinner and then pretty themselves up for the big event (which they went to as a group). Here are the highlights leading up to their departure.

It was a Hollywood Summer

As we normally do at the end of each season, here is a slide show of some of the pictures that capture our many Hollywood Four activities from this past Spring and Summer.

(and in case you missed it, here is our slide show from this past Fall & Winter)