Traveled to my home town of Moline Illinois this weekend. Its only about a 5 hour drive but with 2 little girls under 2 1/2 took us about 8 hours.
Today we went to the Festival Of Trees which I never really have understood. When I was a kid I sang in a choir and always had to sing at this thing. It was kind of cool taking my little girls to it today. Also my sister Andrea came with us.
At the Festival Of Trees they have tons of home made trees for sale that people made. They must have some sort of a contest cause a lot of them had ribbons and stuff.
My favorite one was this Mt. Dew Tree:
It had a BIN of only $150 but the top bid was $20. I bet it cost $200++ to make this thing in pop costs alone.
Fun trip hanging out with the fam. Here is a pic of me and my sister:
And my daughter Juliet and wife Dr J:
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Looking sharp along with the family. BTW that must have been a lot of piss and shit stops on the way/clean up.
Are you going to pump out a “Shoemoney Christmas Album” by any chance?
Lookin sharp… Cuz he’s pimpin my white shades! Haha…
where are the whites? i was also looking for the same..
you only took 2 pictures of the trees??
I was wondering the same thing, but that first pic of you with the Mountain Dew tree is another classic
shoe don’t take this the wrong way man, but what’s up with your sister?
she’s hot as hell.
Whats that means?
I dont get it… why?
Sister? really?!?
Hey, don’t hit on Jeremy’s sister!
heh, can we not behave better??? too bad to see such comments..
Awesome Shoe, I wish you and your family all the best this season.
Yeah, great family Shoe has there and I would also like to wish them a great festive season and a super future. ShoeMoney is a great family man, that’s one of the things I admire him for the most.
Your sister looks just like you!
thats why she’s her sister!
The family resemblance is uncanny! Any other siblings, Jeremy?
Yeah, the resemblance is undeniable. That’s quite a beautiful sister Shoe has there, I wonder if she’s spoken for. Lol! Huh, Shoe?
what a happy family, yeah, i agree with mike, your sister is a just like you
;D
Shoe is a great family man. I admire that!
you’re a lucky guy jeremy, great family you have. Wish you the best!
I agree. You have a great family. Peace!
Pretty original trees
At the end of the season, you can return the soda cans and get back some of your money.
I like that Jewel Osco was the Mountain Dew Tree sponsor, very savvy. Makes me wonder if they knew the concept before sponsoring.
isnt the urban legend Mountain dew shrinks testicles?
mountain dew has yellow number five. It doesn’t shrink your testicles. Yellow number five is made from bugs. That’s how they get the color. It’s from bugs. Everything comes from nature. Yellow number five comes from bugs. I love the dew and my penis and testicles are fine.
HA!
Ew!
hahahahah this is very very funny…what will happen is check your penis and testicles again and see what happens.
looking good
full color tree and very creative…..I don’t see before
Nce Mt.Dew tree.. Any pepsi tree?
why pepsi? dew for over..
Pepsi is disgusting. Coca Cola owns.
Ooo a tree of mountain dew.. My fave drink!
Dew the Dew
Great trees.. mountain dew was cool…
Ur wife Dr. ?
Any chance we could get your sis to shave her head…so we’d have twin Shoemoney’s?
Methinks you’ve got a better chance of Jeremy growing his hair long. Ladies are usually very reticent when it comes to shaving their heads, unless your name is Britney Spears and you are having a personal crisis!
quite true, but whats with the britney thing?
The Do the Dew Tree was nice. I like the toy bear tree even more. Incredible size and very well put together.
How did you score that wife of yours when you were a fat fuck? I dunno. I have to move to the US of A
That mountain dew tree is quite clever!
Shoe, that is what I like about you – you are one normal dude. I like the family and the trip to the hokey tree show for a Saturday. Wait til soccer starts with the kiddos. I can see you now! Have a great TG day if I dont stop by before!
A very different tree and something i hav never seen before. Made one out of bottles though, beeeer
very strange tree….heeee, very creative
Very interesting festival.
your daughter is cute
This is a remarkable photos. I like the holidays.
Festival of Trees with a mountain dew tree! That’s cool. What about a tree of beer?
BTW nice photographs.
Wow that is some crazy stuff, looks like you had a nice time with the family.
Your little daughter is so freaking cute!! I bet she’s ridiculously smart too.
i LOVE those trees — especially the dew tree, but the stuffed animal tree is also very clever. i wish NYC would adopt something like this. every year it breaks my heart to see them drag a 70-foot tall old-growth spruce out to rockefeller center, trick it all out in lights and then throw it by the roadside (metaphorically speaking) in january. sad, i say!
hey shoe, cool post. Its kinda cool to see you spending time with the fam. Congrats to you and all of your success including business, and a wonderful family.
love the season! Stores and homes around town have set up christmas lights. not suprised about the stores. But am glad to see families placing Christmas lights and decorations, too. I will follow my yearly tradtion after thanksgiving. Pass some Cheer around… Maybe you can send a SHOE tree to Wall Street. Cheer them up or they can throw it at ??????
I wonder how many beer-can christmas trees this post & that picture inspired…..
I’m in Saint Charles Shoe. We should hang some time and go over to The King and I in Saint Louis.
its good to see how moline has jumped on the recycling bandwagon, that tree of cans is mad cool
The Mt. Dew tree is quite slick, but would have been better if it was Heineken rather
and that would have done justice to your pose, you like like you were shouting “Let’s get wasted, yeah!!!”
You have a cute family.
I had a beer can tree once. It was worth some money too
Hey Shoe, in the picture with your sister, both your eyes look red. It makes you look kinda scary.
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You should of BINed the tree and eat all the apples one day
I think I need to go to the bathroom just looking at that Mt. Dew tree. That’s a whole lot of doin the dew
nice piramid… i think i like the toy tree more