Happy Birthday, Holly!

Today is Holly’s *mumble mumble* birthday.  Everyone be sure to call her to wish her a happy day.

Time To Catch Up

Yeah, I know that I should have posted this maybe on Saturday.  Or on Sunday or Monday but I have been too busy dealing with other aspects of the site to write anything.

I wanted to let everybody know about our weekend.  It was very eventful.  On Friday night Emma had her eighth birthday party.  While we were able to pull it off without any major problems, Pizza Hut did their best to ruin the night for Emma and her friends.  I’m a good dad though so I was able to thwart their efforts.

I’m Getting Older

Today is my birthday. I say that not in an attempt to get birthday wishes, I say it to get presents. Lots of big, expensive presents. Actually, I just wanted to share some random thoughts about some of the things that I’m noticing about myself as I get older.

First off, my hair is starting to go gray. Honestly, that’s really no big deal to me. I’ve had gray hairs in my beard for a few years now. The fact that it’s now showing up on my head is really of no concern.

Speaking of hair, I’ve started growing it in strange places. A few months ago, I was scratching my back and felt a long hair on it. I assumed that it was one of Holly’s that had been affixed to the inside of my shirt through the magic of static cling. I was wrong. It was attached to the middle of my back through the magic of hair growth. I pulled it out and discovered, to great surprise, that it was about four inches long and white. That’s not right.

It’s Birthday Time Again

Today is Hannah’s second birthday. Holly has to work tonight so we decided to celebrate last night. We took the family out to dinner and Hannah discovered a profound love for bread sticks combined with cheese ravioli and root beer. At one point, I had to remove her drink from her hands because she had a mouth full of food and was trying to drink through a straw at the same time. She didn’t like that and promptly showed me all of the food in her mouth as she started screaming. Don’t worry. Once her mouth was clear, she got the drink back.

Happy Birthday, Alex!

Yesterday Alex turned three-years-old. In celebration of his birthday, he decided that he wanted to go see Shrek the Third and eat lunch at McDonald’s.

We went and picked up the movie tickets about an hour and a half before the movie actually started and then went to get some lunch. The kids all had fun eating their Happy Meals while Holly and I went elsewhere for food. Once it was time, we headed over to the theater and found our seats. I was amazed how un-busy the movie was. This is supposed to be a summer blockbuster but there were no long lines and it was easy to find a good seat.

Once the movie started, I understood why there weren’t a lot of people there: it wasn’t that great of a film. It was OK but not great. It seemed a bit forced in parts and slow in others. There were a few good laughs but nothing like the first two Shrek films. It just didn’t meet my expectations. We all had a lot of fun though.

Happy Easter!

I know it’s a day late but give me a break; I’m recovering from surgery here. Speaking of which, the recovery is going slow. I have little to no voice and lots and lots of pain/discomfort. Enough about me though. I wanted to tell about my weekend.

On Saturday Holly took the kids to the park next to our house for a neighborhood easter egg hunt. Apparently they had close to 4.6 billion eggs there to accommodate the 3.9 billion children in our neighborhood. All of the kids seemed to enjoy themselves but Emma was a bit disappointed at the fact that she only got a few eggs.

After the neighborhood hunt, we all piled into the van and drove into Layton for another egg hunt. This time, Emma scored big time and all of the kids got lots of eggs which are now rolling around the back of the van. (I think it’s time to clean the van out again.)