January 2008

Happy New Year, but I think I ended my last post with that...

First off, the kids and I are campaigning for Ron Paul. VOTE RON PAUL.


Staying busy this month. Work got a little chaotic, my Mom has been helping a lot getting Christian to Tae Kwan Do early. I wish Christa would help out :S Tor starts ballet next month, and I'm sure that she'll help with that! Tori is adorable in ballet!

We went skiing again at Ski Whitetail. Christian did good enough to ride the ski life and go down the bigger green slopes! Tori went back to Grandma's for a couple hours while we kept skiing! Good times, and another confidence boost for him. Meanwhile, Tori did as expected. She's getting the hang of it, but likes to just go at her pace, and smile, smile, smile. I love it.


We went to the Herr's potato chip factory on one of their days off. For any at home mom's in the area that like to take their kids to educational places, Herr's factory is just 30 mins north of my house and is 100% free (avoid the gift shop!). No pictures, forgot the cam.

Just this past weekend Christian's buddy Drew came over for a couple hours. They had fun running around being boys, and some Nintendo mixed in.


What else? Tor had her last cavity filled, Christian had a doctors appointment. Eternal cold symptoms for all of us. Boring month. Still gets dark early which makes it hard. I'm going to try and teach Christian to ride a bike this month (Feb).

Until next month, or hopefully earlier :S...

December 2007

Ah, the month of Advent and Christmas. That crazy month where I wait until 12/23 to do any shopping whatsoever.

Plenty of Advent and Christmas pics!!!





We had our first good snow day. Tori and I played outside for a good bit


Early in the month, we decorated the tree


Mid month we took a vacation to Snowshoe, WV for the kids first ski adventure. Wow. We had so much fun staying near the little village. The kids both took to skiing quite well, with Tori actually doing better than Christian on this trip. Best times were had sitting in the outdoor hottub watching the kids go down the OUTDOOR water slide (heated) in 10-20 degree weather. It was a trip.


Aside from that, New Years was boring (no kids this year). HAPPY NEW YEAR!

November 2007

It's been a slow month. With the daylight savings change, there isn't much outdoors stuff to do during the week. The kids and I have been packing and preparing for our move that happened on November 23rd.

I took my family to Jeff Allen comedy night at my Church on the 9th. It was a great time! MY grandmother and her sister couldn't stop laughing. We thought they were going to keel over and die right there. Meanwhile, my cousin Trish took the kids to chuck-e-cheese where Christian lost his first tooth!

Christian started back in Tae Kwan Do now that we're starting to settle in and school is underway. What it has done for his confidence is amazing.


We had our pictures taken for Christmas Cards by a friend from work who does photography


I celebrated Thanksgiving at my parents house, no kids this year.

Throughout the month, I had all of the floor coverings in the house replaced, repainted every wall and ceiling, had all of the plumbing fixtures replaced, bought a new washer and dryer (dishwasher still doesn't work, budget ran over, didn't expect to be left broken appliances... It'll be hand washing for a LONG time). It all culminated with a big Moving Party while my Mom watched the kids friends and family helped me move back into my house. It was great fun (?).

I switched the kids rooms in the interest of space, and did his room in Disney Cars, and hers in Disney Tinkerbell. The rooms look GREAT.

October 2007

Wow, it's been a while. So sorry family, everyone keeps complaining that I've been slacking off. Due to the chaos in my life I think I'll be blogging only monthly for a little while.

We had Christian's brithday at the local laser tag place. 10 of his classmates and neighbors came by for a coule hours of shooting fun. On his actual birthday, Christa and I took them to Sakura (same with Tori's birthday, did I mention that last month?), and then I took him next door to get him a snake.


We did our pumpkin carving mid month, the girls made pumpkins that were throwing up, and Christian made a terrorizing pumpkin with an apple in his mouth. We had a great time doing this, and a lot of playing outside this month! Great weather!


I wasn't supposed to have the kids for Halloween night this year, but Christa had a Halloween party to go to so she let me take them for the night! First we went to Tori's Halloween parade at Kindercare, then we did "Trunk or Treat", which is sponsored by my Church. We decorated my trunk like a snowboarder hut (?), and handed out THOUSANDS of peices of candy to the neighborhood kids. What a wonderful way to spread the message of Christ.


Great month overall, and starting yesterday, I'm now cleaning out my old house that Christa has now left. It wasn't left in the greatest shape... massive cigarette and cat urine smells, coupled with almost every appliance being broken and fleas. So I'll be busy this month! I'm replacing all floor coverings, and repainting every wall. Fun.

For those inquiring about Christa, she moved to the Eastern Shore with her boyfriend DJ and his son Travis. They seem quite happy, and I'm glad that she came out of this crazy year with some new support.

September 2007

This month I traveled to Houston for a couple days, I took Christian to the Haunted House (Field of Screams), I've been staying busy with Salsa dancing lessons (!!!), I took Christian to a baseball game (Yankees vs Orioles), we had a bday party for Tori, and we've wrapped up the season swimming at Mom's house.

No pictures this month at all except the camping in PA pictures on the last post. I took a ton of pictures, but I lost my camera at the Yankees game, so don't expect pics for MONTHS. Whoever found my camera, at least send the last month's worth of pictures. That would be nice.

Christian is doing great in school, and Victoria starts Kindercare tomorrow!!!

Yesterday we hit up the playground and went to check on our letterbox. Pics!!!

Camping in Pennsylvania

We went up north to the PA Grand Canyon area last weekend and stayed a couple nights. We stopped by Tracy's parents' "campground" and let the little girls ride horses, and roasted marshmallows. Christian was too afraid to ride the horses (I don't blame him).

We also visited a petting zoo in the area, check out the pics!

School, State Fair, Updated Blog

Christian started school on Monday! Their mother and I put him on the bus and waved goodbye. It wasn't nearly as emotional this year as it was last, and yeah, I forgot my camera.

We went to the State Fair last night. We had great food and good times. Tori LOVED the ferris wheel. It's always her favorite at any park. The animals, rides, and food were perfect. The kids behavior was wonderful after a little incident with Christian during dinner.... ergh...

NO PICTURES! Can you believe it, I forgot my camera...

Tonight we had our typical bi-weekly movie night. The kids have a birthday party tomorrow afternoon that their mother is taking them to, and I'm off to the pool at Moms!

In other news, I updated the blog layout. Blogger has made it much easier to add parts and move them around. I like...

Camping

We went to Elk Neck State Park to camp this weekend. It was a real hoot. Tori loved the toads. That was all she talked about. Baby toads this and that. She actually wanted to SLEEP with her toad. Both the kids had a lot of fun playing in the woods with the other kids, and I had a ball just being lazy and dirty. :)