We took Aiden and Gavin to see Cars 2 today. Aiden has proven to be very good in movie theaters, but this was Gavin’s first trip. He didn’t act very well at all. Gavin didn’t want to sit in his seat, and he didn’t want to wear his 3D glasses. When he did wear them, they kept falling off, so he...
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Chrissy’s vegetable garden is growing fairly well. The tomato plants are getting really big and the zuchini are actually producing already. It’s the tiniest of little zuchinis growing so far, but that’s amazing considering that we have never gotten anything to grow before. We had practically given up on...
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Chrissy and I have wanted to replace our old fence ever since we bought the house, but kept putting that project off. We looked into it last year, but found that it would be a little more expensive to do than we thought it would be. So after a year of saving up (or rather, paying off earlier home remodeling projects), we met...
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What started out as a little bit of concrete next to our deck became a much larger project. It took a lot longer than we had expected, because it had to be poured in three separate sections on three different days. And it rained a lot in between each section. Luckily, our contractor was able to start earlier than he planned,...
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Aiden has completed his first season of t-ball. I have to admit that I didn’t think that it would be much fun. I don’t know anything about baseball and I didn’t dig the thought of sitting on the bleachers for hours, waiting for a game to end. I was completely disillusioned. T-ball is like baby steps for...
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Chrissy takes the boys strawberry picking every year at Johnson’s Farm, but I have never been able to go. I finally got to tag along this year though. Chrissy’s mom came to help wrangle the boys. I was pretty sure that it was going to be awful, since it was a little cold for June and it had been raining the night...
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Today is my birthday and everyone on Facebook knows it. Chrissy and I joined Facebook last year, and it sends a birthday notice to everyone that you’re friends with on the site. All of your Facebook friends then posts birthday wishes on your wall. It’s really pretty nice, like getting a hundred birthday cards at...
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