There has been a lot going on this past month and keeping up with two boys and maintaining their FB pages as well as playing with my new toy whenever time allows has kept me pretty tied up ( Read more... )

Jan's sister is in town for a visit bringing her son and grandson with her.  Between the two of them they may be able to hold their ground, but with 4 little boys three of which are all over the place it is going to be a contest of wills and distraction.  Now the three will generally all be together playing while the baby is doing baby things.  But ( Read more... )

Memorial Day is upon us and that signifies the traditional start of the summer season (not to be confused with the summer solstice which starts the calader summer) which will run until Labor Day ( Read more... )

The weather was almost perfect.  With the exception of a strong breeze that blew most of Saturday making the 65 degree day feel more like a 55 degree day, Corey and I enjoyed our outing and gave mommy a full 4 hour span of quiet-time.  That was Saturday morning and into the afternoon.  Once we got back home, I loaded up my pack and went up onto the ( Read more... )

So this week marks the end of February.  We found out the other day that the new baby is going to be a boy.  So Corey will have a little brother in August ( Read more... )

It has been almost a year since the restaurant burned down and we have all been waiting for the reopening anxiously ( Read more... )

Well so far this month has been one of the ugliest I can remember.  With the exception of one or two days of spring-like temperatures, we have gotten a lot of rain, rain and more rain.  It would be ok if we could get a little snow as part of the package, but so far no dice ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic at work and I have put in a lot of hours as the engineering team worked diligently to bring a prototype converter online before Dec 17.  The big push is over now and we have the acceptance of the client, and hopefully that will mean no more working late, coming in early or working on weekends for a long ( Read more... )

Well, truth to tell, it hasn't really been all that quiet nor has it really been all that busy, but it has been a couple of weeks full if things to do and that has kept me offline more than I am used to ( Read more... )

Our 14 year old niece has joined us for a week and so far it has been fantabulous.  We started out with a quick float down the river on tubes on Saturday.  That went over very well and on Sunday she wanted to do the long float.  5 hours long.   By the time we got out, the sun was almost set and we both looked like prunes ( Read more... )