Home SWEET home

We had a long boring trip to Des Moines.  No sugar coating here..Spencer does fine with the rides because he busies himself…movies, DS, reading, drawing.  Griffins favorite thing to do…ride bike and razors. Not really car ride friendly. He survived.  We arived in Iowa shortly after 4 and they hit the pool running. Note to [...]

the BIG 4-0…

plus six….hehehe.
OK so today Richard is finally the same age as me…less 34 days.  He can not call me old lady till next January 11th when I am his old lady for 34 days! He takes great pleasure in that 34 days and every opportunity to call me old lady. Ha time is up!
We had [...]

about a birthday…

I had a terrific birthday…..thanks for asking and for the wishes everyone.  I started out with a sleep in…well till about 7:30…actually that is early for me as I usually get up about 8 on Sunday…hmmm rethink that for next year (though part of that was the whole back debacle).  I did my grocery game [...]

It is a celebration weekend here…

So the when the weekend is over I will have aged one more year!!! Originally the idea was that we would go to lunch, all four of us at a favortie fish house.  Then Richard took the boys to shop for a gift to day and they had to argue about the color…Griffin dark blue [...]

Wii, we…

we…wii have taken the venture into Wii slowly…it started with wii’s arrival for Spencer’s birthday. Actually, it was about mid-February when we got it.  It sat alone in the closet for 6 months. Once it was given as a gift it was opened and played, with the one hour a day rule on school days [...]

Our favorites…and a little more

SO the Christmas gifts that were favorite this year…
Dad….lots of new cold weather shirts
mom…hand mixer
Spencer…Digital Camera
Griffin…all the blue things he got: Blue bike Helmet, Blue Radio/cd player
it was a great morning of leisure and fun…it took much longer to open gifts as Griffin wanted to explore each gift…Spencer was let’s get ‘em all open and [...]

Christmas Eve Christmas Day and beyond

I had put no thought to a Christmas themed post for the next two days. As I read around the blog-o-sphere this morning, of my friends posts, I did not see a host of Christmas thoughts or posts. One or two. So I do not feel bad that I have not put together this [...]