
Due to having all of our family out of town, most of our Christmas and birthday gifts are mailed. So Gavin got a gift from Justin’s sister, Jen, and her family early in the week, so he opened it on the morning of his birthday along with a few small gifts from us (since Justin left town that night): Then he got one…
Continue reading ↗: Pics from Gavin’s Epic BirthdayI actually had a relatively well-crafted post in my head. I mean, most of it was pics from Gavin’s party, but hey, it was still better than my posts have been for the past several months. So I was saying I had something planned. But then life just caught up with me. After being off a week to spend time with my…
Continue reading ↗: We Take a Break from Our Regularly Scheduled PostSaturday was Gavin’s birthday party, and despite our earlier discussions regarding birthday themes we went with a pirate theme, which was easier, and I think, a lot more fun than Batman or Wolverine. I mean, do either of those guys run around saying stuff like “arrgghhh!! where’s me booty?” Okay. Gavin wouldn’t say…
Continue reading ↗: Party Time
Wow. Five years. It just seemed like last week you were just learning to sleep in your big-boy bed and coming into our room at odd hours of the night, barely as tall as our bed. Then I suddenly noticed Saturday when you came in and woke me up while I was napping, that you had gotten so tall and are now head and…
Continue reading ↗: Happy 5th Birthday, Gavin!I was getting ready to post some great pearl of widsom (read: same ol’ whiney stuff) when I realized I hadn’t cleared out my spam comments in a couple weeks. Seems that over Memorial Day weekend, the comment spammers found extra time on their hands and added over 500 spam comments in those three days. Most of them…
Continue reading ↗: SPAM, it’s not just for MREs