Archive for November, 2008

Sam’s Christmas Wish List

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Sam wrote a Christmas wish list. Here it is, with original punctuation: Shoe phone! [like in Get Smart] Real Light Saber! My Sims Wii Kingdom! Car’s! Brown Horse webkinz! Lil’ Kinz chickade! Scoter! [scooter] T.V.! Little Laptop! Video and picture camera! Dormax DDR! New bed! desk! Nice nes gun! [niceness gun - an invention of [...]

FLL Scrimmage

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

We had our First Lego League scrimmage today. It was just the robot game. Our team did VERY well. We ended up second by 1 point. The kids really enjoyed it.

f tree (and Tahoe)

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

On Saturday, Bruce and I (and Jax and Lexi) hiked up to the f tree. On the way up, there was more snow than I expected, so it was one step at a time, so Bruce lead the way. The way down was pretty much straight down stepping through the snow. At the top, we [...]

Bug

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

As I was falling asleep last night, I saw this bug, a Jerusalem cricket, running across the floor. Being the human being that I am, I put a box over it. When the box started to move, I put something heavy on it. Well, I forgot about the box and when the kids went downstairs [...]

New Kayak

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Pokie got herself a new kayak. It is an Eddyline Fathom. It is a sea kayak as opposed to our other kayaks that are simple recreational tandems. Much nimbler and faster. Now she just has to get better so that she isn’t the limiting factor. Sam was my photographer.