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Archive for March, 2008
Video Vault V
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Mari Talking
Easter Happenings
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008We had a busy Easter weekend. Erin and kids came to town on Wednesday morning. I was supposed to work until 3 on Thursday, but Rod called Thursday morning and we had a couple of showings, so I took the afternoon off. Friday we hit the Natural History Museum, a nice alternative to the busy Children’s Museum. Saturday we had Kelli, Emory, and Oliver over for dinner. Sunday we hunted for eggs, ate candy, went to church, and went to my Aunt Elaine and Uncle Mikes House. Monday we ate some more candy and hung out at home.
Erin and her kids left this morning and I headed back to work.
Susan just called and said she is lonely.
Video Vault IV
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Andrew Singing
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Gala
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Last weekend was a Gala-filled weekend. Friday night Susan helped set up, and then Saturday night was the actual event. I was on the committee, so I had to be there at 5:30. Susan was going to stay home with the kids, but at 6:30 she showed up and told me that my parents were going to watch the kids. She was planning on taking an intermission at 9 to go home and help with bedtime, but when she called my parents said that all the kids were asleep. She ended up going home at 11 and I was up until 1. It was a good time.
Taking Responsibility
Friday, March 14th, 2008A couple nights ago I read an interesting article about parenting and modeling proper behaviors for our children.
Today I came across an article which I like, agree with, and think has the same message.
Video Vault III
Monday, March 10th, 2008Andrew Holding Mari
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DST
Sunday, March 9th, 2008It is time again for my semi-annual complaint about the time change.
I am sure that to someone the time change seems like a good idea, but they must not have little kids.
Snow
Sunday, March 9th, 2008So apparently we got a lot of snow. Seems like a lot to me. It started snowing Friday morning and didn’t stop until Saturday afternoon. I got to leave work early on Friday so I could enjoy the white stuff. Friday was spent watching it snow and hanging out in the kitchen. Saturday was spent digging out and playing, and then by Sunday it was all play.
Simon and Rachel came over on Sunday and we hit the slopes of Mt. Airy Forest, at the same place where we had our wedding reception. It was pretty warm and sunny out, so the snow was slow. We sledded for a while and then went for a nice winter hike. By the time we were finished we were all a little warm, so instead of heading home and having hot chocolate we headed home and had some chocolate milkshakes. It was a fun day.
Video Vault II
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Andrew’s First Birthday
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The Play Set
Monday, March 3rd, 2008On Sunday we got a bunch of people together to help us move the play set that we bought a couple weeks back. We found a used play set on craigslist and decided that it was meant to be in our back yard. The only problem was that it was still set up in someone else’s.
We started the day at 11, at our house, with a light breakfast. We headed to Florence, KY and started working around noon. It was raining lightly on us as we finished taking the play set apart and loaded it into the vehicles. Luckily we were able to fit a major part of the ‘clubhouse’ in the back of Will’s pick-up truck.
The drive back to Cincinnati proved to be a little more challenging that expected because Will’s truck was having a hard time making it up the Montana hill, so we had to turn around and go to the next exit on the highway.
Eventually we got all the pieces back to our house and started putting it back together around 3. We were just about finished as darkness set in, and we could have finished, but we came up three nuts short, so we decided to clean up and call it a night.
I was at Home Depot at 7am this morning, home by 7:30, and by 8 the kids were swinging. They have been having a great time on it already – last night while we were putting it together and today when it was finished.
It turned out to be a fairly large project, which I suspected it might. Luckily we had a lot of help, which made it a lot easier.
I added some pictures from the play set raising to the 2008 photo gallery.