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65th anniversary

February 6th, 2010

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Today we went to a big May family gathering, to celebrate the 65th wedding anniversary of Jared’s aunt and uncle. We are working hard, on getting together with this side of the family more, and it was wonderful to see everyone.

Jared got to play guitar, and sing for the group. I gracefully declined playing into a microphone, in front of lots and lots of people. Way to many people for me and my stage fright. I have videos, to come later. The boys got to see Hannah again. These kids just get along so well, it’s nice to watch.

He’s back

February 4th, 2010

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Caleb has had a bad couple of academic bowl matches. He felt like he was on a losing streak, and he wasn’t having as much fun.

But, tonight, they won one game, and only lost by 5 points one game. Also, the most important part, he had fun. He had a smile on his face, he was enjoying the questions. He hardly groaned at all, when they had math questions. He smiled as he got weird history questions correct. At one point, one of his team mates asked “How did you know that?” He replied… “I don’t know.” Then their coach laughed. It’s fun watching him have fun.

Side note… Alex wanted to know why I was taking more photos of the bus. I explained, that I can do a really cool thing in photoshop, where the bus and lines are yellow, while the rest of the photo is black and white ish, and it’s fun and easy! Perhaps no one else enjoys this particular look, but I still think it’s fun.

Another stray

February 3rd, 2010

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Last night, a very adorable fluffy small gray cat arrived at our house. Harry did NOT like this new cat. Ladybug LOVED chasing it up the tree. Harry never runs up the tree when Ladybug charges him. Very boring for Ladybug. Dagny was indifferent to the new creature.

Well, I tried to chase it off last night. Sure, I have a soft heart, but I also have too many pets, and not a big enough salary to feed them all. No, it’s not that bad. But, more than enough pets. The cat did not run. It just flopped down, and purred. When I walked, it ran around my feet. It was affectionate. It had a collar, and a bell, so I checked it. Sure enough, a name and phone number.

So, I called Daisy’s owner, who lived in Cameron. She suspected the cat was taken and dumped, when it dissappeared a couple days ago, and was pretty happy to hear from me. So, I had to get Daisy down from the tree. AGAIN. Put her in a kennel, to keep her out of the tree until the owner came.

One very happy teenage girl came and got her cute kitten.

After School

February 2nd, 2010

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Most days, after school, the boys ride the bus to my folks’ house. Upon arriving, they help themselves to two cookies each, and a big glass of milk. They then rush to be the first to my mom’s lap. There they sit, and discuss their day.

Today, I look over, and she has all three hovering around her. Just waiting for that good lap spot to be free. That’s Caleb, under the blanket, refusing to have his photo taken.

The road to Manhattan

January 30th, 2010

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The weekend is being spent in Manhattan, with the boys’ grandparents. They are in wi-fi bliss. They’re climbing on laps. They’re talking gaming strategy with Granddad, the best way to catch a mouse. They’re full of brownies, pasta, chocolate pie and soda. They’ve played board games with Grandma. They watched some exciting basketball on tv, amongst K-State fans. Those are hard to find in Missouri. A most excellent weekend.

Thanks Kevin

January 27th, 2010

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Our house is now well protected, thanks to their Uncle Kevin.

Fan Club

January 26th, 2010

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We’re a traveling fan club these days. Caleb has about one month of acedemic bowl, twice a week. I didn’t know how to get to yesterdays match, so I followed the bus. It was again fun, watching him be in his element.

The entire ride home, Alex told Caleb how great he did. We’re quite the support group.

the aftermath

January 24th, 2010

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The day after loads of fun, is always a hard one. Yesterday we started off our wonderful day with a meal at Red Lobster (one of the boys’ favorites) with their Grandma. We walked around the mall with her. They had her undivided attention.

We followed that up with Kaylee’s party. Giant indoor playground equipment. Run Run Run. Now, the other set of grandparents have joined us. The more grandparents the better. Kevin was there, not many people rank higher than Kevin in my boys’ mind. He might rank higher than me. He gives them guns as gifts. He’s pretty cool.

We followed that up with a pizza dinner at Kevin and Kristy’s house. Pizza. Again, cool in my kids’ mind. Christmas gifts were passed around. Another gun was received. That’s ok though, we gave Kaylee an electric guitar. It is sure to drive Kevin crazy. Although, I think he liked it more than she did.

Jonas got to stay the night at my folks’ last night. Alex and Caleb got to stay up late and watch an episode of The Office.

It was a fun, fun day. Today, nothing but boring football to entertain them. It will be rough.

3 years old

January 23rd, 2010

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Ah, my beautiful neice turns three!

We had a wonderful time at her birthday party, followed by a belated Christmas at her house. The boys got BOTH of their grandma’s for the party. It’s hard to top two grandmas. We went went went all day. We came home exhausted. It was a delightful time though.

Perfection

January 21st, 2010

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Since Caleb has been in Kindergarten, coming home, and telling us all of the interesting facts he learned that day (my memory is of him telling me that Lincoln was the 16th president, when he was 6), I knew he was destine to do impressive things with this knowledge he jams his head full of.

I thought that there would be an acedemic bowl team in high school, but what a nice surprise, when I saw that middle school had a team, I hunted him down ASAP, and encouraged him to go find out how to join. He came home the following day, and when I asked, he had forgotten to ask. This went on for a week. Then, I became the overinvolved parent, and went to one of the coaches, and told her, my boy is PERFECT for this, when and where should he show up. She gave me the information, I came home, told Caleb, and he showed up to practice.

When he came home after that first practice, he was smiling from ear to ear. At last, it was useful to know that Hamilton was a member of the wig party.

He’s done a lot of activities. It’s often been frustrating for him, that he is not as athetic as he wishes. But, this, this he is good at. We need to keep his ego down. That shouldn’t be an issue. But, it was so much fun, to go watch him, be so very comfortable, so totally in his element. I enjoyed leaning over to Jared, and whispering, “Our baby ROCKS.”

*fun side note. He was captain of the team, for the first match. Our baby rocks.

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