Cake Time Again

Tomorrow is Annie's 5th Birthday. It seems like just yesterday she was screaming her way all the way home from the hospital and then I hit her head trying to put her in the crib and made her finger bleed when I tried to cut her nails. We are headed to a water park for a special treat and then home for Mermaid Cake!E-man made his own version of a cake and enjoyed getting it all over himselfThe

Touring the Town

This week we went into DC twice. I took my kids and their cousins to the National Zoo and showed them where I went to college. They were extremely unimpressed with college, "you don't get recess in college??"Then Look Who We Ran Into....The Millers from Minnesota happened to be here Thursday on their tour of the East Coast so we met them on the National Mall for a trip to the

Getting Settled

I finally found the camera cord to download pictures, lord knows I can't blog without photos. We are getting settled. We are still getting lost a lot which means a lot of wasted time with the heavy traffic, but we have found the important things like the neighborhood pool, church, Target, the grocery story, and great running trails just down the street from us.Yesterday I took the kids on a

Onwards and Upwards

The kids are doing great. Me? I keep waving at strange people who I think are our neighbors. I have this card in a frame (which I can't find, but is in some box) that says 'This way ahead, looking back is no longer an option." Still it seems to be I am the one who is slow to adjust.We have met two families in the neighborhood. One directly across the street with an adopted daughter a year

The Misery of Moving

You know the feeling, you think a big change is a really good idea until you can't find a thing and everyone is tired and fussy. Here's some advice, DON'T MOVE! And certainly do not be dumb enough to think moving with three kids won't be the biggest effort you've ever made in your life.Let me start with the process of getting out of our house. I hired two men to load the truck. But Armand and

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Moving Day

I guess we're really moving. We have a really big truck in front of our house and most of our stuff is in boxes (in no particular order I might add). My life is pretty simple these days, I pack, clean, yell E-man's name, say good bye to someone and repeat. Pack, clean, yell, good-bye.

A Day At WCCO

I took my camera to work today, something I wish I did much more often. Then I took the kids and few of their friends on a tour of the station...here are the snapshots.The explosion at a Farm Supply Co-Op we we're coveringThis is what I look at everydayGoing 'live'My morning photographer in the live truck, working on getting a signal before our 5 a.m. hitHere we goThe kids visit, set number

Dudley's Truck

Our neighbor built a 1955 Ford truck. It is shiny red and clean like a whistle. He took the kids for a ride and they had a blast!

Thank You Minnesota

My Montage 6/09We said good-bye to a lot of friends this weekend and went to our last church service. Thanks to everyone for all your support and help. We pull out of town a week from tomorrow.

Abegail's Presidential Power

The awards keep coming for Abegail and with this one she is getting ready for her debut in DC. Her school had their final awards ceremony on Tuesday. She won the Presidential fitness award for passing five fitness test with 85% or higher. She got a certificate signed by President Obama. She insisted on wearing this sweat suite. This is the outfit she wore on her way home from Liberia and it

Park Therapy

We are starting our string of lasts (last time at the Y, last parish council meeting) and Good-Byes. With just 12 days left, each day seems to go faster. Monday was our last Home Therapy session with E-man's teacher from Washburn. Miss Laura thought it would be good to do something special so we went to the park Annie went to on her last day of preschool. They have this "bumpy" slide she had