It's Official - We're Moving

My wife has accepted a position at a new Vet Clinic. This one is about 60 miles away from where we currently live. Since that would be too much a commute, we are going to be moving, which is most of the reason for the new job anyway.

Once we move, we will be within minutes of Kirsten's parents and her brother's family. She has been wanting to get a job around there for couple of years now. So, after interviewing at several places over the last year and a half, she finally gets a good offer. Then she gets another offer only an hour and a half later.

We are very excited, but a little stressed. We want to be moved before the end of summer, so that Patrick will be starting school at the new one. We don't want him to have to transfer part-way through a year. So, now we are working constantly to get the old house sold, so that we have enough money to purchase a new house.

I will probably put all kinds of interesting things during the move. Check back for more.

My learning disability

The other day, one of our auto's was in the shop, so I and the girls drove in to pick Kirsten up from work. Unfortunately, a dog came in at the last minute that needed an emergency C-Section. So, while we were waiting Emily, Kaitlyn and I went across the street to McDonald's. The food isn't that great, but they did have a nice play structure to keep the girls entertained.

After forcing them to eat at least one chicken nugget each, I let them onto the structure. Emily was off like a shot, as usual, but I was surprised to see how easily Kaitlyn was climbing inside of those tubes. Generally Kaitlyn needs a lot of coaxing to do anything like that.

Anyway, as I should have know, she gets all the way to the top and is too scared to come down the slides. As a matter of fact, she is too scared to go back down the way she came up. I should have known better. So, there she is at the top yelling, "'ary Daddy, 'ary". I am trying to coas her back down from outside, and talk Emily through coaxing her back down. I hope the other parents were too annoyed with us.

Finally, I gave in and climbed up the large twisted slide to get her. Those things are smaller than they look.

Then, I did something really stupid!!!! I let her go back into the play structure. She convinced me that she was going to go down the slide by herself. What was I thinking? She gets back in there and repeats her performance. After a couple more minutes of "'ary Daddy, 'ary" (I am pretty sure people were getting annoyed now), I am climbing back up the large (but narrow) twisty slide to get her.

We're Back

Actually, we haven't gone anywhere, I just haven't posted for a while. I can't believe that I have not posted for over two months. I have probably lost everyone that used to look at our blog regularly (both of them).

Well, what has been happening? Well personally, it has been work, work and more work. Except for a weeks worth of vacation. My wife and I took a trip to Disneyland for four days last month. Yes, just the two of us. Since we took the family to Disneyland in October, we didn't feel too guilty. It was a lot of fun.

That is about all of the excitement here. There is just not much going on.

Here are a couple of pictures of the girls.

This is just a really cute picture of Kaitlyn.


One night when we were watching TV, Emily decided the my legs were a very comfortable spot to lay. The next thing I know, she is fast asleep.

Another view of my sleeping daughter.


Probably every kid has picture like this one. This is what happens when you leave children unmonitored with markers. At least she only drew on herself and the markers are washable.