Jacob LOVES the game of football.  He has for many years.  He carries a football around in his arms.  He had begged us to let him play for a long time, but we always felt that it would be best for him to wait until he was in middle school.  In fact, we didn't really…

Yesterday I got a call from the school nurse.  You can imagine that I assumed the worst (i.e. pukies). Nope – Caleb had collided with a friend while playing football and split (literally) his lip open.  Lots of blood, very swollen.  The nurse asked if I would just come look at it to assess the…

This one has been a doozy let me tell ya.  A day of diarrhea, two full days of constant vomiting, and another day of diarrhea (today) – that makes this the fourth day of him not keeping anything down. (Sidenote: Is diarrhea just the worst word in the English language or what?  Not just because…

Well…it's been one of those hum-dinger days that looks pretty negative on paper but somehow I'm still smiling. 1.  A major virus appropriately (or not) called the "Trojan" (as in the horse?) took over my computer this weekend.  Apparently I brought it upon myself when I innocently installed an "anti spyware" software because it told…

I've been lazy in the blog department. Jacob turned 11.  E-LEV-EN!  He loves to talk about when he was a baby and hear stories from us.  It was a fun b'day.  I'll blog about it later. Caleb loves art class.  Right now they're doing a knitting/weaving project and he is on pins and needles to…

Today I got the big boys to school and got ready in a hurry! Today I took Samuel to speech class where he and I had a bit of a power struggle moment when he refused to put his flip flops back on and come to the door of the class.  When his teacher came…

Today I went to the gym and ran/walked 2.5 miles.  I'm going to attempt a half-marathon in January.  I have a long ways to go. I then went to the church for a RS meeting.  I taught a class about the importance of making your marriage a priority (i.e. date nights) and my partner-in-crime (Anne)…

When we built the pool we allowed for a small space of grass on the left of the pool for Maggie.  Over time we realized that it was going to be VERY inconvenient to mow that small patch of grass, and rather pointless considering we have large sideyard for her to use.  The sideyard is…

Today I took Samuel to speech class. We had a lovely visit with Grandma Kake (and Samuel bragged about it to his brothers). We went to the gym and I did Zumba while he colored Cookie Monster and played. We went to Kroger for groceries. I had brown rice Cali rolls for lunch and he…

We were raised to be Texas Rangers baseball fans!  We would go to the old stadium and sit out on the bleacher seats with our cooler of Capri Suns and x-large bag of Starbursts.  Then in high school, my girlfriend Kate's dad had season tickets and she and I would ride in her red Jeep…