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Arbor Day 2009

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:21:48 +0000

Johnathan brought home a baby Douglasfir tree from first grade. He wanted to plant it so that is what we had to do. Mark Jr. also has been learning iMovie so I decided to make a family education project out of it. Johnathan would help me plant the tree and Mark Jr. would document the event and add all the photos to a montage with captions. He spent a fair amount of time with a computer based training on iMovie to learn the important parts to put it all together. This was his opportunity to put all that learning to good use. I went to buy a pair of sneakers and figured when I came back we would work on the project together. When I came back, he told me he had it almost all done. It was 90% done and I just had to help with the finer details that he would have gotten eventually. I was surprised and very impressed on what he did. Not only was it well done, but it was funny. I think he has my sense of humor… God bless him…

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Emmaus Halloween Parade with Leading Edge Karate

admin — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:49:49 +0000

We, as a family, are marching with Leading Edge Karate at the Emmaus Halloween parade. Considering I had flag football with Mark Jr. early this morning, the Halloween party at Leading Edge Karate and now we are going to march its a busy day.

We all bundle up warm because its a bit chilly and we have to wear our Karate uniforms. Well all except Millie since she decided to wash her and my uniform 5 minutes before we are about to need them. I had bought a spare uniform so I was able to wear that one. Was it an accident? Probably. Subconsciously though it was probably on purpose

We park our car a few blocks from where we are supposed to meet up with everyone. We get there just in time – or so I thought. It turns out we are waiting a little over an hour until its our turn to start going down the parade route. Its now like 8:00 and Johnathan, Mark Jr. and Millie are all beat. I have to be in the front holding the banner. So we start marching and I’m holding the banner. On paper the route seems like its not that big. Boy I should have checked the scale of how that route was drawn. This march took about 1:20 minutes. Along the way Johnathan got piggy back rides from Lance and Melissa. Then they put him in the wagon after they ran out of candy.

I figured thank goodness we are done! No we aren’t, Millie promised the kids ice cream somewhere along the way. So off to Friendly’s we go. I just wanted to go home and sleep. The kids shared a meal and Millie and I got burgers. Then Johnathan got his usual, the Candy Shop. Mark Jr. got a double scoop cone. Millie got a soft serve sundae with caramel. I ate whatever Millie left me.

Halloween party at Leading Edge Karate

admin — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:45:42 +0000

I took the kids to the Halloween party at Leading Edge Karate. Johnathan was dressed in his Picachu costume and Mark Jr. was dressed in his Darth Vader costume. Since they are someone popular and store bought costumes I expected there to be others with the same costumes. There was 1 other Picachu and 2 other Darth Vaders. Sensei was Darth Mall. Lance was a Dr or was he an intern? Melissa was an officer. I was paparazzi running around taking pictures.

The kids played dodgeball, sensei says, the clapping game and just had a great time. The got a bag of candy on their way out. I later found the candy they didn’t like in the back of my car

Johnathan’s 5th Birthday Party

admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:05:41 +0000

We had a big party today. It was actually a double party. It was a 5th birthday party for Johnathan. It was also a “come see the house” party as well. We have lived here over a year and haven’t really had people over for a bunch of reasons. No furniture, no time, getting things in order, etc. We decided we would have a big party and invite everyone over.

Johnathan had a great time because it was his 1st big party. Lots of kids running around creating havoc! Not good for my blood pressure but its all in fun.

It was a bit scary because when we got up in the morning and looked outside it was raining. All I could think of is 75+ people all in the house. Maybe 30 minutes before people were to start arriving the clouds broke, the sun came out and it was like a new day had started. The weather was great!

We don’t have deck furniture just 2 benches I made out of the scrap composite boards and poly (plastic) framing. There is almost nothing on this deck I have to worry about. Its all made made stuff. We will get deck furniture next year. Paying cash for this deck is enough money for one year.

Food wise we were covered (as usual). Millie’s mom made Puerto Rican style pepper steak and rice. I made 60 empanadas and baked ziti bolognese with home made sauce (well mostly home made). Millie made chicken parmesa. Then there were ancillary things like salad and breads. We were up cooking until 5am. Everyone ate well!