I’m still alive

It’s been a while since my last writing. I’ve been extremely busy at work lately and haven’t had a chance to even turn on my laptop. We are just a week away from going Beta, so it’s getting pretty hectic. Jennifer and the girls are doing fine in Houston, even though Jennifer calls her parents’ house a “baby death trap”. Her vacation hasn’t really been a vacation because she’s been having to watch the kids constantly so that they don’t get into something. Tomorrow she is driving up to meet my parents and drop off the kids with them. My parents are excited to have the kids for a week. We are still  unsure about Emily, but we are hoping once she’s away, she will be okay. I’ll report on news from Nana and Poppy’s house tomorrow.

Today’s picture is of Nana and Abby from when they visited us in Orlando at Christmas.

The Plane Trip

The day started early at 4:00 a.m. We had to wake up the kids and get them into the car. Their plane took off at 6:50 a.m. I got them safely onto the plane and Jennifer called from Houston when they arrived. She reported that the girls did “okay” on the flight. They kept wanting to get out of their seat and playing with the person who was sitting behind them. Jennifer took the digital camera and will be sending pictures back from the trip that I will post here.

I haven’t been feeling well all day. I left work early and crashed on our sofa for several hours. I woke up in a cold sweat and I haven’t eaten anything all day. I will be going to bed early and hopefully it will pass in the morning.

The Day Before

Tomorrow is the day I’ve been dreading for about a month now. I have to take Jennifer and the girls to the airport for their trip to Texas. They will be gone for three weeks. Although I hate to see them go, I know it’s for the best. This time of year I work so much that I was only seeing them for a couple of hours in the morning. This way they get to see their grandparents who don’t get to see them that much. I know that they will have a fun time and will miss me. I will miss them too.

Lazy Sunday

We didn’t do much today. I had the day off from work and I stayed home with the girls while Jennifer went to teach children’s church. We did laundry and just hung around the house.

Today’s picture is from our trip to the Fun Spot. Emily couldn’t ride any of the rides as you can see from the sign over her shoulder.

Going to the “Chapel”

The day Jennifer and her parents have been dreading for a while happened today. Jeffrey, Jennifer’s brother, got married. The problem is that they don’t particularly like Jeffrey’s new bride’s religion. She’s a member of the Jehovah Witness and she dragged Jeff into her religion as well. Jennifer and her parents don’t share their beliefs and feel that the Jehovah Witness is a cult. It took quite a lot of courage for Jennifer’s parents and sister, Christina, to put that aside and go to the wedding today. Jennifer reported that everything went “okay”, but Jennifer’s parents said that they felt that they were being watched the entire time. The other strange thing was that there were around a hundred people at the wedding. Besides themselves and Jennifer’s sister, they only knew two other people. Who were all the other people. Queue Twilight Zone music.

Today’s picture is the last picture I have with the whole Musselman family from February 2003 when we were leaving Texas and driving to Florida right after Emily was born.

Happy Fun Spot

Today Tiburon organized a Madden celebration party at Fun Spot. Jennifer and the kids picked me up from work and then we drove down there as a family. Abby rode various kids rides. She also got to ride with me and Jennifer on the go carts. We had pizza and after dinner played games to win tickets. It was nice to get away from work and visit with the family. It was also nice to come home at a decent hour and go to bed. The next couple of days will feature pictures from today.

Back to Work

Back to work today. George left around noon and I was off to work. Jennifer is shopping around trying to get the perfect fabric for our new sofas that were are going to be buying for our living room. She’s purchased an area rug and now she’s trying to match the fabric of the sofas with the fabric of the rug. The big debate now is whether or not to get a sleeper-sofa. We already have a futon upstairs in the office, but we are trying to make sure we have enough room for people to come and visit or, for the long term, if we eventually get rid of the futon.

Jennifer and the kids went to the park today, too.

Baseball Day

Day off from work today as George was in town visiting. We didn’t do much. We scoured the Internet to find a minor league baseball game to go to. Unfortunately the Orlando minor league baseball team moved to Montgomery Alabama last year and they were renamed the “Biscuits“. All the other games were too far away. We thought about going to an Orlando Predators Arena Football game, but ironically, they were playing in Austin today.

Instead, we stayed home and played MVP Baseball all day. I finally hit my first home run. I really hope I had more time to play MVP more often, but work is currently cutting into all my free time right now. Perhaps in July once our busy time is over with. It’s a pretty addictive game.

The kids jumped around the house all day today. They were even more rambunctious since we had company. Today’s picture was taken while Emily was in the bath tub.

Working Thursday

Not much going on today. Jennifer has been cleaning the house in preparation of George visiting this weekend. He is our first house guest since we moved into the new house and we are trying to get all the things necessary for when you have a guest: mainly setting up the guest bathroom.

Vacuum Return

I met the girls at Chucky Cheese for dinner today. We had a fun time of eating pizza and winning tickets. I was amazed that Abby could actually work this machine where air blows around some ping pong balls and you take this net on a stick and collect the balls and put this in this bucket. I was impressed.

I bought Jennifer a new vacuum for Mother’s Day which was lighter and more compact for easier clean up of things that get on the floor. After all, Abby’s Barbie vacuum can only pick up so much. We needed something more powerful. Unfortunately when she opened it, it was busted. I also thought it was cordless. The pictures of the vacuum on the outside of the box showed no cords. Anyway, she returned it to Target today and got one she wanted. It was cordless and it allows her to quickly get all those crumbs off the floor that are generated by the girls. It’s times like these when we miss our beagles, Sam and Sierra. Today’s picture is of Abby and Emily making more messes on the floor.