For the last several years, I have been under a self-imposed exile from movie theaters. I had banned movies because the experience was more annoying than entertaining in most cases. Stinky people next to you, loud people behind you, screaming babies anywhere. How can you enjoy a movie with these things going on? (I...
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Aiden has started playing t-ball again. He liked playing t-ball so much in the summer that we decided to sign him up for Fall Ball. This is pretty much the same as regular t-ball, except the games will go from late August until early October. It’s going to start getting dark earlier soon, so they want to get as much...
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Late last spring, Chrissy and I made a list of all of the things that we would like to do over the summer. The biggest thing on the list was a trip to St. Louis, which was pushed back to the end of the summer. Although plans were made, we had to skip the trip due to inclement weather. But there was a backup plan, which would...
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We had originally planned to go to St. Louis for our summer vacation. The idea was to visit a buddy of mine near St. Louis and then introduce the boys to the Gateway Arch. We also planned on stopping at Cahokia Mounds, where I proposed to Chrissy, on the way there. There’s also the Magic House Children’s Museum,...
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Although our family has an annual membership to the Brookfield Zoo, this is the first time that I’ve been back since the Spring. The last time I was there, the “Great Bear Wilderness Trail” was still under construction and the dolphin stadium was being renovated. Both are now completed, so we wanted to get...
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Summer vacation has begun, and that means that Chrissy must once again make the transition from elementary school teacher to stay-at-home mom. Believe it or not, it’s not easy. We’re used to having Chrissy’s Mom take care of our house and now Gavin is teething again. So it might be rough this week. And the...
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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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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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