Grandma and Grandpa got Aiden his very first bike as a birthday present. They gave it to him a bit early so that he could enjoy it for the rest of the Summer (by the time his birthday rolls around, Summer will be over). He has plenty of riding toys, but this is his first bicycle. It has a Spiderman motif, and Aiden loves...
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Aiden will be three years old next month, but he has now mastered the hallmark of the “terrible twos”: the WHY question. It has become his new favorite word, coming in immediate response to anything that we say to him. Tell him to do something and you get, “Why?” I very quickly resorted to “Because I...
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Our family (including Auntie Felice) went to the St. James Festival this weekend. This is the first year that the church has brought in carnival rides for a while. There was a lawsuit in 2007 between the town and the father of a boy who died falling from a ride, so St. James decided to avoid that altogether. That lasted a...
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Target and Mars Candy teamed up to do a promotional item for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I sent in my receipts a couple of weeks ago and I got two M&M candy dispensers in the mail over the weekend! The dispensers are pretty neat. Each stands about a foot tall, which is bigger than I thought it would be. ...
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I’ve been holding off on writing anything about the new Transformers movie until everyone had a chance to see it. I know that some people really don’t like “spoilers”, but the movie has made about $600 million world-wide by now, so all of the people that care about this have already seen it. Chrissy and I...
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With the siding finished on the house and the garage, Uncle Glenn and Chrissy’s Dad turned their attention to the deck on the back of the house. Or more to the point: the lack of a deck on the back of the house. We’ve had several pallets of lumber (both real and plastic) sitting on our driveway for a couple of days. ...
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I taught the E-Commerce class again for the first summer session at Indiana University. I did things a little differently this time though: I didn’t accept late homework. I used to accept late homework, but things got crazy at the end of the semester with students dropping six weeks worth of hastily completed assignments in...
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