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:
November 22, 2008 at 4:38 pm
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?
November 22, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Lookin sharp… Cuz he’s pimpin my white shades! Haha…
November 23, 2008 at 2:32 am
where are the whites? i was also looking for the same..
November 22, 2008 at 4:41 pm
you only took 2 pictures of the trees??
November 24, 2008 at 5:55 am
I was wondering the same thing, but that first pic of you with the Mountain Dew tree is another classic
November 22, 2008 at 5:26 pm
shoe don’t take this the wrong way man, but what’s up with your sister?
November 22, 2008 at 5:27 pm
she’s hot as hell.
November 22, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Whats that means?
November 22, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I dont get it… why?
November 22, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Sister? really?!?
November 23, 2008 at 1:23 am
Hey, don’t hit on Jeremy’s sister!
November 23, 2008 at 2:32 am
heh, can we not behave better??? too bad to see such comments..
November 22, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Awesome Shoe, I wish you and your family all the best this season.
November 25, 2008 at 7:20 am
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.
November 22, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Your sister looks just like you!
November 22, 2008 at 7:25 pm
thats why she’s her sister!
November 23, 2008 at 1:23 am
The family resemblance is uncanny! Any other siblings, Jeremy?
November 25, 2008 at 7:24 am
Yeah, the resemblance is undeniable. That’s quite a beautiful sister Shoe has there, I wonder if she’s spoken for. Lol! Huh, Shoe?
November 22, 2008 at 5:57 pm
what a happy family, yeah, i agree with mike, your sister is a just like you
;D
November 25, 2008 at 7:24 am
Shoe is a great family man. I admire that!
November 22, 2008 at 6:19 pm
you’re a lucky guy jeremy, great family you have. Wish you the best!
November 23, 2008 at 8:17 am
I agree. You have a great family. Peace!
November 22, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Pretty original trees
November 23, 2008 at 8:55 pm
At the end of the season, you can return the soda cans and get back some of your money.
November 22, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I like that Jewel Osco was the Mountain Dew Tree sponsor, very savvy. Makes me wonder if they knew the concept before sponsoring.
November 22, 2008 at 7:04 pm
isnt the urban legend Mountain dew shrinks testicles?
November 23, 2008 at 12:30 am
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.
November 25, 2008 at 10:02 pm
HA!
November 26, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Ew!
November 30, 2008 at 4:11 am
hahahahah this is very very funny…what will happen is check your penis and testicles again and see what happens.
November 22, 2008 at 7:18 pm
looking good
November 23, 2008 at 4:14 am
full color tree and very creative…..I don’t see before
November 22, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Nce Mt.Dew tree.. Any pepsi tree?
November 23, 2008 at 2:33 am
why pepsi? dew for over..
November 23, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Pepsi is disgusting. Coca Cola owns.
November 22, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Ooo a tree of mountain dew.. My fave drink!
November 23, 2008 at 12:17 am
Dew the Dew
November 22, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Great trees.. mountain dew was cool…
Ur wife Dr. ?
November 22, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Any chance we could get your sis to shave her head…so we’d have twin Shoemoney’s?
November 23, 2008 at 1:27 am
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!
November 23, 2008 at 2:31 am
quite true, but whats with the britney thing?
November 22, 2008 at 8:27 pm
The Do the Dew Tree was nice. I like the toy bear tree even more. Incredible size and very well put together.
November 22, 2008 at 8:53 pm
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
November 22, 2008 at 9:28 pm
That mountain dew tree is quite clever!
November 22, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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!
November 23, 2008 at 2:30 am
A very different tree and something i hav never seen before. Made one out of bottles though, beeeer
November 23, 2008 at 4:11 am
very strange tree….heeee, very creative
November 23, 2008 at 4:48 am
Very interesting festival.
November 23, 2008 at 5:33 am
your daughter is cute
November 23, 2008 at 8:18 am
This is a remarkable photos. I like the holidays.
November 23, 2008 at 11:15 am
Festival of Trees with a mountain dew tree! That’s cool. What about a tree of beer?
BTW nice photographs.
November 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Wow that is some crazy stuff, looks like you had a nice time with the family.
November 23, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Your little daughter is so freaking cute!! I bet she’s ridiculously smart too.
November 23, 2008 at 4:24 pm
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!
November 23, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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.
November 23, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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 ??????
November 24, 2008 at 1:40 am
I wonder how many beer-can christmas trees this post & that picture inspired…..
November 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I’m in Saint Charles Shoe. We should hang some time and go over to The King and I in Saint Louis.
November 25, 2008 at 3:43 am
its good to see how moline has jumped on the recycling bandwagon, that tree of cans is mad cool
November 25, 2008 at 7:29 am
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!!!”
November 25, 2008 at 2:38 pm
You have a cute family.
November 26, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I had a beer can tree once. It was worth some money too
November 26, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Hey Shoe, in the picture with your sister, both your eyes look red. It makes you look kinda scary.
November 30, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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December 6, 2008 at 5:34 am
You should of BINed the tree and eat all the apples one day
December 18, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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
February 14, 2009 at 5:26 pm
nice piramid… i think i like the toy tree more