Author: midder

Well it looks like we survived the trip. I got good at doing hair and getting the kids ready for school. Julie got home and realized that she really had a good time. One of our conversations yesterday went something like this:

Me: How are things?

Julie: Lucy pulled off more wallpaper! I spanked her a few times and she just laughed at me!

Me: Are you missing St. George?

Julie: Yes . . . [inaudible] . . . aarrgh! Lucy! . . . Oh . . . when are you coming home? . . . Lucy! Get over here! . . . I gotta go.

Click.

It was a good day.

Julie’s already going crazy on Abby’s new room. She finished painting it tonight. We’re all high and feeling good. She got her wunder sewing machine today. Hopefully it’s as vunderbar as she says it will be.

The family’s doing good. Catherine had her baby on Monday (1/31/2006). Isabelle Kay is her name. Zach is already talking like the WT he is about taking her out shooting. Poor girl.

Grandma Kay had surgery a few weeks ago. She fell pretty hard and needed to have her hip replaced. She looked pretty shaky there for a while, but I guess she just must have gotten sick of the rehab because she amazed the nurses with her resilience and came home. Suzi is here this week. I’m sure both of them are wondering where her #2 grandson is. Hopefully we’ll see them before Suzi leaves.

Work is OK. I “get” to go to New Jersey this week to try and drum up some more business. Mike, my “ex-boss” is going, so that will make it more bearable.

I’m still waiting for the paperwork for the new multi-million dollar company. I may have something lined up, so I’d better get my product going.

All for now.

Julie left this morning for St. George, UT, with her sister, Nancy. They’re going to see Lisa (another sister). Her son is leaving to be a missionary in New Zealand, so there’s a big to-do up there. Julie was a little bit too excited to drive away sans kids.

We’ve made the best of it here. We went to Home Depot early this morning. I got some new filters for the air intakes, seeds for the garden (Grace demanded that we plant a garden today), and some flowers. It was pretty fun.

If you haven’t heard, it hasn’t rained in Phoenix now for 102 days, a new record. That, combined with the havoc that the tractors and cement crew played on our garden by running over it countless times and mixing in the purple-colored pebble tec, makes for some hard dirt. I put a lot of water on it. It’s such clay out there that it basically held the water in like a dish. We ended up planting lots of tomatoes, carrots, and beans. We have plenty of other seeds, which we “need” to plant, but we don’t have much room left.

Later, the girls wanted to go to Macayos for dinner. Not wanting to make Mac and Cheese again, I relented. Abby and Grace got the all-time Mexican favorite, chicken strips. Lucy pounded a quesadilla, and I got what I always get, a Baja Chimi. Good stuff.

Now we’re home with Spencer and Samuel (from across the street) watching the Flinstones. Bedtime is close.

The best thing about today? I did their hair all by myself! I’m very proud. Hopefully Julie doesn’t get too used to this.

Well I finally jumped on the Flickr bandwagon and created myself an account. Here are some pictures on the girls that Julie took for me. Best Christmas present ever. Abigail, Grace, and Lucy. All taken 12/2005.

Time, that is. It’s crazy how it gets away from us. Tonight I came home to my oldest daughter, Abigail, wailing and moaning on the couch due to an ear infection. I have 3 girls and I think this is the first ear infection in our family.

Julie’s got all kinds of projects going on, which means that I’ve got all kinds of projects going on. The nesting instict has kicked itself into high gear a bit early this time around. We’ve moved Abigail into her own room and Lucy in with Grace. I just don’t know what to say about Lucy other than she’s a nut. She’s a happy nut. Remember that camera I bought that I was so excited about? Well I think she threw it away somewhere. Either that or it got stolen when Julie gave my sister Catherine a shower last week. And I’ve got to think the former . . .

Side projects are going very slow. I did officially begin the process of forming the LLC. It’s going to be BCE Solutions. Incredibly clever, I know.