A Little Trip to the Park
After another rather interesting day at home I decided to take the kids to the park. We were supposed to go to the park after dinner on Sunday but it started to rain – so I decided to give them a rain check. We had a nice short trip to the park, the kids loved the slides, the monkey bars – and are even starting to enjoy the swings. After we stopped for a nice ice cream treat.
Day at the Aquarium
Well for a few weeks now the kids have been asking to go to the aquarium, I am not sure what started it – if it was comercials on TV or if we mentioned it one day – but Oliver has been asking to go, and Summer has been saying she wants to go and see the turtles at the aquarium. Whatever the case we finally planned a trip to the Camden Aquarium this past weekend. As expected the kids had a blast – and were overall pretty good. It was interesting to see how exciting and almost frustrated Oliver got when he couldn’t end up right at the front of the tank – but he handled it well, even saying excuse me and making his way to the front.
Just uploaded about 60 photos from the trip -
Zoo Trip Recap
Well I talked Kim into taking the kids to the zoo last weekend. It was kind of last minute and we debating staying down in the city area, but in the end it ended up being just a day trip. The kids had a blast, probably the most fun trip to a zoo/aquarium/etc to date. Not that we are really suprised because they always really love it – but it was great to see how much fun they had and it make the tired drive home a little easier to deal with.
Check out all the pictures in the April Album
Maybe next time we will stay in the area and do a few more things and try and get a hold of some friends. We ended up buying a membership to the zoo because it wasn’t really much more than our regular tickets would have been – so next trip will be free!
Some More Pics – Easter, and such
Well Mom is away learning all kinds of fancy insurance things down near Allentown – so the kids and I are on our own. What does this mean? Ice cream for dinner and no cleaning up of course! Ok, maybe not – we are currently having the dinner she made for us before she left, and all just kind of keeping busy missing mom as expected.
In any event, I had a moment to upload recent photos, check them out.
Oliver Zooms to Four
In a few hours from this posting will be Oliver’s 4th birthday, where does the time go? Looks like everyone except mom is sick in the house, so hopefully the friends that came over this weekend didn’t take home an extra present of sickness for them.
We snapped a few pictures this weekend, so as always wanted to post them here. This year Oliver asked for the same cake he asked for last year – a Wonder pets flyboat cake. The strange thing about it is, I don’t think he even watches that show that much anymore, and he got EVERYTHING else spiderman. He even had me get him spiderman confetti so he could “throw it in the air and yell surprise”.
Wow it has been a while
Well I just realized that I haven’t posted anything here on the site since last year – I didn’t think it had been THAT long. I guess thats what happens when your current job is the search of a new occupation, but since I don’t think I have mentioned it here yet I might be getting a bit ahead of myself. As many know I am on a partial lay off at work, about 50% actually, so most of my days are a whirlwind of trying to find a more secure position in this current economy and/or picking up extra contract work if and when I can find it. Add that onto the normal everyday life and it seems the family blog gets pushed down the priority list.
I am usually the negative one, and Kim the positive one, but I am going to try and play the role of Kim here and look for the silver lining. Yesterday was a good example of how the lay off can at times be good, or at least not bad. It is finally starting to get warm out, and Oliver fought his fears of bugs and decided the tackle the art of riding a two wheeler (with training wheels of course). After just a few runs he was flying down the sidewalk, he did however fall a few times – the first time hurt the most as he yelled for help, but after that he just picked himself up like it was no big deal on future dives. I snapped a quick pick on my phone and sent it to Mommy – we were both so proud.
I did upload some photos this year, but forgot to post about them, so here they are.
Favorite & Strangest Family Pics of 2008
I just went through the pictures for the year of 2008 and selected some of my favorites. Some because of the memory behind the photo, some because they just look like a nice photo to me, and some because well they are just plain wacky and make me laugh.
There was quite a few to pick from, and if I went through again I might select a different bunch as my favorites – but there you have it!
2008 Comes to a Close Plus Holiday Photos
Well here we are on the eve of the last day in 2008. Many things have changed, others have remained completely the same – and if history tells us anything 2009 will most likely be an interesting adventure one day at a time. It is amazing to see how the kids grow in just a year, just look at these photos from January this year.
Compared to more recent pictures from this december
Some of the more interesting or notable events in 2008
- Kim Started a New Job
- Oliver Turned 3
- We had a BBQ at the house with a bunch of friends
- We had a few family fun trips to Knoebels
- I was in a subway that caught fire in Boston
- We took a family vacation to Toronto, Canada – filled with amusement parks, fun, and hotel pool swimming
- Kim and I went on our yearly weekend trip to NYC through my company
- We took our annual Halloween trip to Roba Farms
- Ninjas stole Oliver’s fish he won at the Bloomsburg Fair
- Kim ran her first 5K
- We got Idor and DerDer (the family hamsters)
- Summer Turned 2, I turned 31, we hit our 5 year anniversary (yeah december is always jam packed with events!)
Finally I also just uploaded all the Christmas photos:
Well December Just Flew By…
I can’t say that I am surprised though, December always seems to fly by. There is the holidays, Summer & my birthday, and our anniversary all crammed into a few weeks, and then of course Kim’s birthday following shortly behind in January.
So here we are on Christmas Eve, and I finally got around to uploading the images for the month – and to look back on the events that have passed, with a post to follow (hopefully fairly shortly) with all the Christmas photos and fun. Towards the beginning of the month my hours at work were cut down, blame the economy – or blame whatever you want – but we are making the best of it. One side benefit is I have an extra day where I am home with the kids and usually a 3 day weekend to top it off, it also gives me a bit of extra time to work on some things at GamerDNA and 360voice.
This year marked 5 years since that special day in Cancun Mexico that Kim and I went from single to married, who would have thought on that very day that 5 years later we would be sitting with two kids and watching christmas shows and talking about Santa.
Another huge milestone for this month is Oliver (finally) decided it was time to use the potty, and for the most part he has been pretty good at it – only a few accidents, and we still have to overcome a small barrier of him being terrified of public restroom toilets for some reason. Summer even tries to potty train here and there, but shes really imitating him – but she gets lucky sometimes.
Finally December marks the first real snow storm this year – so the kids got to go out and play with the snow, though I have a feeling there are plenty more days like that to come.
Happy Thanksgiving 2008
Just wanted to send a quick Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, and post a few new pictures of the kids for 2008. Since we were loosing the battle against the ninjas with the fish, we decided perhaps we would try a pet which might be a bit more likely to stick around a bit longer – so the Larrabee family has 2 new members of the family. A set of Russian hamsters by the name of Idor, and Derder – don’t blame me, those are Oliver’s names.
They have been in the house for a little bit now, and actually it seems that Summer enjoys them more than Oliver. It is her sense of adventure that got her wanting to hold them right from the start. Either way both the kids explode with joy over the new pets, and ironically they cost about the same for 1 hamster as it does for a single fish – depending on the breed of fish, and they are bit more fun than just watching a fish swim – so overall, a good choice.
