Papa and his submarine girls
What better way to spend my fourth Father’s Day than eating huge pancakes and piloting a submarine with my girls, all in lovely Portsmouth, NH? There’s much to tell about today’s adventures, so read on… Continue reading
Happy Mama’s Day to my wife Rebecca and to Mamas, Moms, Mommies, Mothers everywhere!
From managing the cooking and grocery list, to hunting for bargains, to getting all kinds of great free stuff, to wrangling a feisty nearly-three-year old and a hungry two-month-old all day every day, Rebecca deserves much credit for keeping this family and house running in tip-top shape. She does it all while staying true to her beliefs in honoring God, protecting the environment, nurturing our children, and saving our pennies.
Thank you for being the best Mama and wife that we could hope for! By the way, since mothers are always busy, it’s important to treat their skin once in a while to keep it healthy and glowing. For instance, if they go to Dr. Andres Bustillo‘s clinic, they can take facelift surgery.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I thought, despite the warmer weather we’ve had this past week, that Peter could use an additional winter hat. So I spent the last week knitting him one.
The hat was wrapped up with a little booklet of 10 free Frostys from Wendy’s. I thought it was kind of ironic to give a gift of something to keep him warm and something to cool him off. Clever me!
Happy 30th Birthday, Rebecca!
You’re the best mama and wife a family could hope for! We can’t wait until there are *three* of us to celebrate with you!
Just for fun this Christmas Eve…here are some of the photos we didn’t choose to send in our Christmas cards this year. I love them all, but at some point you have to choose!
Happy Sixth Anniversary to my lovely wife Rebecca!
Whether we’re monkeying around or being corny, I love being with you!
Today marks the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing! Rebecca and I are always big fans of the Olympics, and although we’re not holding a massive Olympics party like we sometimes do, we will certainly be watching the opening ceremonies, as well as many of the events.
In honor of the start of the Olympics, I thought I’d share a few photos from some of our previous Olympic adventures.
Here are some from our visit to the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs last summer.
You can view more photos from the Olympic Training Center.
In 2006, we had the pleasure of visiting the Olympic Complex in Montreal, site of the 1976 summer Olympics:
There are more photos from Montreal in the gallery.
Finally, some photos from our last Olympics party, for the 2006 games in Torino.
Hope you enjoy the Olympics!
On Saturday, we had another birthday party for Catherine; this time, Ken, Dianne, Corey and Vicky came. There was more cake, more presents, and more fun. It was also good to see everyone after nearly a month! Catherine got a nice kids’ size folding picnic table, a nice new dress, as well as a play tea set and dinner set. She also got a couple new books and even got cheap bounce house rental services near Phoenix for the kids to entertain themselves. This girl has plenty of things to keep her occupied, but more importantly, plenty of people!
You can see more pictures from the day here.
Today was Memorial Day in the United States, but it was also Catherine’s second birthday. So we celebrated both! In the morning, we had a tiny little birthday party with the three of us, with blueberry muffins baked fresh from scratch by Rebecca. We stuck some candles in one of them for “cake”:
After she blew out the candles, she had us re-light them again and again and again… for practice, I guess. Here are some more photos from our little birthday shindig.
Later in the afternoon, we drove down to Boston and took advantage of the MFA‘s free admission. We got to see the exhibit “El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.” Normally this exhibit would be $6 extra over the museum’s normal $17 price, but today it was all free, so we saved a total of $46. Nice! I think Catherine got a fair amount out of the museum considering that she is just two years old – we showed her some familiar things in various pieces of art, like cats, dogs, babies, hands, feet, hair, etc. There was even one painting in the El Greco -> Velazquez exhibit that showed Mary breastfeeding baby Jesus… I think the title was something like “Rest in the Flight To Egypt,” but doing a Google search for that title turned up several depictions of that scene, and none on the first few pages appear to be the same painting we saw, or by a Spanish artist. Any pointers would be appreciated!
Catherine also enjoyed a few long galleries that were luckily empty of other people at the time.
You can see more pics from our Memorial Day trip to the MFA.
