Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Dec 23, 2009




dominican school classmate, victor, who i haven't seen in about 25 years!

Dec 22, 2009

Dec 21, 2009

a visit from jane, jackie, and raquel



Dec 20, 2009

gramma and grandpa are here!





Dec 19, 2009

because the boys were good, we headed out to pretend city again.
less crazy today than last week, when the rain prompted many people to converge here.


Dec 18, 2009

getting ready to head out to dashiell's xmas show at his pre-school
twinkle twinkle

santa claus is comin' to town

headed out to the mpr for juice and cookies
dashiell and megan!
with mrs. niki!

Dec 17, 2009


matthew's award ceremony at school
dashiell singing christmas carols with his pre-school-mates

Dec 16, 2009


Dec 14, 2009

afterschool: getting ready to walk the dog over to the lady down the street who said she would take the chihuahua.


Sunday, December 13, 2009

Dec 13, 2009



so we found this stray puppy outside, and have taken her in (to the garage only!) and put up signs in the neighborhood. all the kids went out with us to post the signs. tomorrow we're heading out to see if she has a chip in her, and if not, a neighbor on the next street over said she'll take her. dashiell really wants to keep her. umm, no. not now. sorry baby!

Dec 12, 2009

brennan's trip to pretend city without any brothers

they had a new hatchery there with baby chicks. the girl said that eggs are due to hatch on dec 15th...

dashiell, after finally crashing for his afternoon nap

Dec 11, 2009

man, i forgot again. gotta be better for 2010.

Dec 8, 2009




(oops. i forgot for a couple of days!)

Dec 5, 2009

we finally remembered to bring the boys to home depot for the free kids' workshop. unfortunately, the guy working out there with us wasn't very personable nor helpful. there also weren't any tables to work on. just drop cloths on the floor, which was quite uncomfortable! =(
but the boys enjoyed their time there and both made a wagon on their own!







later in the afternoon, matthew had his last and final game for this season. they played against a hawaii team (who apparently had expected to go all the way to florida, but obviously didn't). their quarterback was really good. basically had perfect passes except the very last one (final seconds, where they were losing already) but their defense wasn't very good, as we were able to score.
i wasn't able to get a picture of it at all, but in hawaii's first offensive drive of the game, matthew was in for our defense, and was able to finally be the first man in on the tackle! he emerged from the big pile up last. woo-hoo! so he finally got his 'wii game' of his choice -- which was the new super-mario bros (which i like playing, too!)