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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011We’ve got a situation. Last weekend, Annie and Kimberly attended a birthday party at Castles ‘n’ Coasters and they went together on the log ride. I stood on some stairs so I could get a good view and cheer them on. Unfortunately, the first time I saw them they were both wailing and freaking out—even [...]
Beautifying the Place
Sunday, November 13th, 2011Over the last month we have been working on the house a bit. We had a full patio put on the back with two ceiling fans on it so that next summer it will have more shade and breezes on those days when there is no breeze in sight. The patio looks perfect and people [...]
Perfect Children
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Nothing in the world makes you appreciate your perfect, wonderfully behaved, well mannered, smart children than spending a couple of days with an classroom full of children. When I was a teacher I knew that my children, (the ones I dreamed about at the time), would NEVER behave like some of the kids in my [...]
Back in the Saddle
Monday, November 7th, 2011Today I had my first day back working at Boulder Creek. I substituted in a 2nd grade classroom and throughly enjoyed it. I have loved the past 8 years raising and hanging out with the kids day in and day out but I have missed teaching in a classroom. I relished the days that I [...]
Saying Good-Bye to Penny
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Today our Penny girl passed on. We adopted her back in April of 2006. We spent the years enjoying her. We certainly will miss her.
Trunk or Treat
Monday, October 31st, 2011We love the fall festival at our children’s preschool so much. The time spent there is so heartwarming and not just because we were married there and our children spent their first days away from home there, but because the festival is just so nice and quiet. This was the first year we were there [...]
Carving Pumpkins
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Today we finally had time to get our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch carved up. We have finally reached the point where none of our kids are afraid of the guts and each one is able to do a pretty good job clearing their pumpkin. Gotta love that! I will get pictures of the kids [...]
Happy Birthday Annie
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Annie Elizabeth has turned eight! It is amazing how fast she has grown. She is an amazing girl who we treasure. This year we changed our tradition a tiny it to work Annie’s birthday better into the extremely busy schedule of Halloween weekend. We had her birthday dinner on “labor day.” She requested salisbury steak [...]
BooFest
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Due to budget cuts the City of Phoenix hadn’t been doing their BooFest for a couple of years. Thankfully this year they had it. We went this past Saturday and the kids had fun. It was far more busy than usual. I am thinking that they must have done a lot more marketing to make [...]
Frozen Memories
Friday, October 7th, 2011When I was a child one of the millions of little cherished memories I have was being babysat by my Great Grandmother. My parents didn’t go out a whole lot but when they did she was the person we were left with. My Great Grandmother was amazing at a lot of things but cooking wasn’t [...]
Fall Schedule
Thursday, September 15th, 2011After much thought and consideration we have decided to not send our kids to any activities for the fall. I wrote a entry about this last year when we decided to halt all activities and I still firmly believe in these ideals. Our kids have had so much more time to just be kids. No [...]
An Extra Special Gift
Monday, September 12th, 2011Sunday was Grandparents day and we gave Grammy a card. It may not seem like much but the love the card contained was big, not to mention the fact that it included 4 valuable signatures. One of which, had never been seen before. How lucky she is to have such a special card!
Last Day at the Public Pool
Sunday, August 28th, 2011Today, Sandi decided to give the kids a special treat and so we took everybody to the public pool. It was really fun watching all of them doing the same things that we used to enjoy when we were children. Annie jumping off the high dive (doing dives, cannonballs, and pencil drops), Kimberly racing me [...]
Runny Nose Blues
Thursday, August 25th, 2011Every year it is the same story. Send the kids to school and within a week they will have runny noses. Always kind of funny to me. During the summer the super immunity we build up all year goes down because we aren’t in direct contact with millions of outside germs on a daily basis. [...]
Sending the last one off to Shadow Rock
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Tomorrow Paul will begin his pre-k year at Shadow Rock Preschool. I am excited for him and wonder what he will learn and do this year. As this day approached I looked back at when the other children began preschool. Things were so different with Annie and Kimberly. They had only ever been left with [...]
Wishing and Hoping
Thursday, August 4th, 2011When each one of the Girls went to the mall they each asked to make a wish and toss a coin into the fountain at the mall. I took that time to drop my own coin in the fountain with a special wish for each girl. My wishes and hopes revolved around a successful school [...]
Shamu Slam
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011The kids and I went to Sea World San Diego last week with Aunt Steph. We all had a fun time. The kids were so excited to see the Shamu character. So much that they almost tipped him over. Shamu was able to regain balance and we got a fun photo with him.
4th of July BBQ
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011While orders were piling in I tried to spend some quality time with my family over the holiday weekend. Friday night we had a BBQ and bike parade with friends and family. It was such fun for everyone. The kids loved the bike parade and had such a fun time decorating and riding their bikes [...]
Fireworks for the 4th
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011Our family loves to go out to a park, hang out, eat junk food and watch fireworks. Like most American’s we do this at least once per year. We went out to Anthem on Saturday night and Aviano park on Monday night. Both nights we had fun relaxing and being together. Thankfully the storms held [...]
Cupcake Wars
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011On Sunday Annie asked to make cupcakes. She made the cupcakes from a box of cake mix and we let them cool. We decided to have a cupcake decorating contest with the cupcakes. We used our imaginations and some chocolate and vanilla frosting and came up with some amazing cupcakes. Since the kids are into [...]
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