Holiday

Joshua on December 10th, 2009

This year we got our Christmas tree at Home Depot. Which makes me a little sad because I really enjoy the hours of agonizing over which of a thousand identical trees is the just the right one. Unfortunately the trees in Texas are terrible and Costco wasn’t selling, so we went to the hardware store. […]

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Joshua on November 2nd, 2009

We had another great year of Trick or Treating in our Wells Branch neighborhood.  Like last year the Godfrey and Myers families came to beg candy from our neighbors. This year Wesley wanted to be a ghost. He was keen on the idea of running around saying Boo!, but less keen on the idea of […]

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Joshua on November 1st, 2009

We learned our lesson last year that warm Texas fall weather and early carved Jack O’Lanterns don’t mix. Last year the pumpkins had nearly collapsed by the time Halloween came around.  So this year we used carving as a good activity to kill time before the main event Halloween morning. For all of Jillian’s crafts […]

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Amber on August 19th, 2009

We rented an incredibly huge bouncy bus for the weekend.  We got it for the birthday party on Sunday with all of our friends and their kids.  So I decided to have a really simple bouncy party for Jillian on Saturday.  I invited the neighborhood moms over for bouncing, bubbles, cupcakes and juice.  The whole […]

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