The past 2 years we have gone to see Santa and then we walk around the park to look at the luminaries and the Christmas lights, 2007 & 2008, but this year… we decided to just do Santa on Friday and then the rest on Saturday. We got there right at 6, but Santa was [...]
Today I moved the kids into one room. We made Wesley’s old room into the “sleeping” room. I was calling it this to the kids, because it was a bit confusing for them. Jillian and Wesley were pretty excited about all the changes. They helped me take down the crib. It is hard to believe [...]
This Summer the City of Austin had a program to give each household up to three free low-flow toilets assuming you met certain conditions: age of toilet, water usage, City water customer, etc. Well we qualified and picked up our three free toilets. Now normally, swapping out a toilet should take maybe an hour or [...]
Wesley checked out a new DVD from the library last week: Smithsonian Networks Kids! Critter Quest. In one of the episodes of this nature show for kids, the host builds a small deadfall trap in his backyard to catch nocturnal insects. In the show they catch 3 beetles and then held beetle races. Wesley thought [...]
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