This was supposed to be a weekend getaway with Seth’s Mom and sisters, but after Mom’s recent fall and pelvis fracture, we had to reorganize and make a new plan. Instead, we decided to make it a weekend away with our little girls. Rachel brought Lucy and I brought Meg, Katelyn and Claire. Seth’s sister …
Category Archives: Funny
Ellie can ride a bike!
Letting go of the seat of the tiny bike and watching your little tike pedal along solo is one of those “parenting payback” milestones. Ellie might be slow when it comes to getting haircuts, but this last weekend she asked to go out and try her big-girl bike. After about 30 minutes of practice with …
Ellie’s First Hair Cut
As I have mentioned before, my babies are born nearly hairless. And to make matter worse, especially for the girls, they don’t really grow hair until they are 3 or 4. Well, Ellie couldn’t be happier to have finally gotten enough hair to need a hair-cut. Here is Ellie at 4 1/2 years old and …
Keep on reading, buddy
Drew and I went to the library yesterday. Our purpose was to check out a Pirates of the Caribbean movie (he’s really into pirates right now), but since we were there we checked out a couple books that would challenge him a little bit. He’s doing well in his kindergarten class, but the books he …
St. Paddy’s Day FHE
Our kids really got into St. Patrick’s day this year. Claire, Drew, and Ellie made leprechaun traps several days ahead of schedule trying to catch our family leprechauns, Sam and Billy. Unfortunately, they didn’t have any luck. For FHE, I had a bunch of ideas I stole from one of my favorite blogs cute family …
Early Black Friday Shopping Haul
After we’d totally gorged ourselves on our deep-fried turkey, we sat around in a tryptophan-induced coma for a while, played some games, and let the kids watch a movie in Grandpa Gary’s office. As the evening went along, the kids grew restless and so to give Manina and her dad some time to chit-chat, I …
Halloween 2013
Another Halloween has come and gone. I feel like this year has been a bit of a whirlwind and Halloween crept upon us before we even realized it. Each of the kids, with the exception of Katelyn, created some type of costume from the items we had laying around here (or chose to use costumes …
Chick-fil-A Cow Appreciate Day
For the first time ever, I swallowed my pride and caved in to the pressure from my kiddos and dressed up as family of cows for some free food from Chick-fil-A. In the end, it was well worth it. We each got our own full meal which would have totaled near $50!! Aren’t we a …
Can Do!
Jacob decided to run for the 8th grade representative for student council for the next school year. In 8th grade at his junior high school, they don’t have the traditional student council positions, just a couple representative spots: one male, and one female representative. The application process was rigorous. Jacob had to get a teacher …
Ellie & Albert
Ellie is a phenomenon in our home and has lots of cute curls. Unfortunately for her, when she wakes up those curls are a ratted mess. It usually takes me until lunch time to convince her to let me comb them and style them. Megan has been learning about Albert Einstein in school recently. Over …
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