Hi everyone! Here's a quick update. I've been busy working quite a few weekends this year, as I was a temporary Team Leader on my job for five months, and I became a permanent Team Leader about a month and a half ago. But I've been off for four weekends in a row including this four day one, so I'm pretty de-stressed now. We had a nice time at my mom's house on Thanksgiving day, and since then I have spent the last two day's being partly lazy and relaxing, and partly busy trying to fix a few things around the house. Today it was change light bulbs, and replace a few parts on the toilets. Nothing too hard really, but at least I got a little bit done. My wife and kids spent the day in downtown Seattle doing a charity walk which supported Seattle Children's Hospital. Always a good cause, as even our own daughter Anna had a minor procedure done there when she was two years old. So, church and more relaxing tomorrow, and then back to work the next day. Other than that I ...
I can't believe that our baby girl is five years old already. Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that she was still a baby. We celebrated her birthday over at my mom's house today, and we also took her to eat at Red Robin last weekend for an early birthday lunch. As presents, she received a cute purse-like bag that holds two stuffed animal dogs, some clothes, and some Hello Kitty stuff too. For food, we had Pizza from Sam's club, pasta salad, which my wife made, and of course the usual birthday cake and ice cream. She said that she had a really fun birthday!
Hi everyone, Tonight we went to the Harvest Carnival at our church, just as we do every year at this time. We watched as our kids played the games and were given candy afterwards. My son Aaron and I, also bought hot dogs to eat while my wife was with our daughter Anna, who was watching someone make a pink balloon dog for her. We left after about an hour or so as our son is fighting some kind of flu bug and he wasn't up to staying longer. I hope he is over it soon. I hope you all have a nice weekend! Gerry
Hi everyone! Yesterday our daughter Anna's preschool class went down to the Spooner Farms Pumpkin Patch in Orting WA., and our whole family went along. It is the best one that I've seen yet, as the whole place is set up perfect for kids to have a great time. When we first got there they sat us down and talked about different types of pumpkins, bees, bats, and other things having to do with the farm. Then we were given a ride on a tractor pulled cart out to the pumpkin patch where they had some nice pumpkins laid out in rows so everyone could choose one to take home. After that we were able to go into a barn area where you could look at some animals and see some other things they had set up for the kids. We also had snack time with some free hot apple cider, and then we were free to go look around on our own. We passed on the corn mazes and went into the gift store instead and bought some kettle corn, and a pumpkin carving knife to carve our pumpkins. Overall, this place has a ...
