I’m glad Mandy didn’t fall off THIS beast

 

Otherwise, she’d probably still be in the hospital!  20.2 Hands tall!  Holy cow!!

 

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Mandy is Accident Prone 2.0

Well, for those who haven’t been following my Twitter or Facebook and who haven’t learned via other means,  Mandy broke her arm.  She was riding a horse at my parents house in Georgia.

I. Am. Awesome.

Wow!

What a crazy week.  I’ve been working on this deal at work for the past 10 months or so.  We are designing a building a new thing that doesn’t exist.  I can’t really explain what it is due to security, so, I’m trying to think of something that is of a similar level of complexity.  The best thing I can think of is something like a digital camera…  that can survive outerspace.  Of course, that’s not what I’m working on, but something like that.

Enourmous Update on The Kids

Certain family members have brought it to my attention that I have been a bit lax lately concerning significant blog posting.  They have accused me of only putting stuff on twitter/facebook **cough**DAD**cough**.

So, in an effort to appease these individuals, I present you with

KID-CENTRIC MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A nice week

Well, we’re just now recovering from a good week spent with Mandy’s folks.  Nothing huge happened in terms of “we went to X and did Y”, but it was still a really good week.

Direct calling and texting (SMS) on windows mobile with google voice

This post today is a bit different than my normal ones.  This post isn’t really intended for my “usual” audience, such as it is.  Rather, this post is a service to the internet at large.  I recently switched over to using Google Voice, a service that I’m very much a fan of.  However, the switch wasn’t without its headaches.  After a lot of searching, tweaking, and experimenting…  I finally figured out a way to deal with most of the problems.  This post is an attempt to roll together all the information I found to help other folks who might have the same problem.

Outlaw Inlaws are in town

Well, Mandy’s folks arrived over the weekend. They drove up from Texas and will stay a week with us. Guys at work always wince when I say my inlaws are here for a week, but, I actually don’t mind. They are great guests. She cleans and he cooks, meaning I just play with the kids. You might recall that a year or two ago during one of these visits, Jeanelle potty trained Tyler. She’s going for a repeat performance with Logan. So far, the initial reports are that things are going pretty well. Lets hope so.

They also brought there new 10 month old chiuhaha named Sophi. Sophie is… well, she’s about the size of an eggroll. Seriously. Imagine a large egg roll with a golf ball for a head and that is Sophie. To me, a lover of large dogs, sophie falls squarely into the “more rodent than dog” category. However, don’t tell that to the boys because they are absolutely enthralled by her. Tyler’s entire day, ever since they got here, has revolved around when and if he can play with or hold Sophie. He’s totally drawn to her. It is cute… and also a bit bizarre. Tyler is pretty careful with her. He gets a little carried away chasing her, but he can mostly be trusted to sit on the couch and hold and pet her. Logan, on the other hand, is about 3 seconds away from snapping her neck at any given time. I think he wants to grab her by the head and throw her. Needless to say, Gram is pretty busy watching all that.

Emma, to her credit, is mostly uninterested. We brought ‘her’ chair up from the basement so that the adults would have more seating. Of course, it took Emma about about 45 seconds to catch us all not looking and work her way back into the chair. So, now she just sits in her chair and imperiously peers over the action.

Anyway… that was the weekend. Tomorrow night, we hope to take the boys to a hibachi steakhouse, which should be really fun. Neither of them have ever been, but, we think they’ll like the show.

Slow Day

Life has been pretty good lately.  Today is a slow day at work as I wait on some parts I ordered to show up.  Once they get in, I’ll be pretty busy again.  But, for now, it is wait wait wait.

VBS 09

Well, VBS is officially over.  Last night was the big picnic to wrap everything up.  Our theme this year was the story of Joseph.  So, all the kids got to make tie died shirts that they wore last night.

Busy week

Wow… what a busy week!

This week was VBS and through some sort of herculean parenting effort (mostly on Mandy’s part), we managed to get the kids there every night.  But, it has really taken its toll on us.  I think we’re all pretty exhausted.  Tonight we have a picnic there at the church to go to, and then this weekend, I think we’re going to try to do as much nothing as we can.

Some big developments on the child rearing front as of late….