19
Aug 2010
Well, another school year is underway. Emma is now in fifth grade, Alex is in first, and Hannah has started kindergarten. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there to send them off, but Holly walked to school with them and made sure that they found their teachers without any problems.
Yesterday when I came home from work, I made sure that I asked each one of the kids what their favorite part of the day was. Alex liked lunch. He told me that his favorite part is “always lunch.” I thought that making the transition from a half day to a full day would instill a deep love of recess in him but I apparently the kid likes to eat. I guess when you run around as much as he does, you need to eat a lot to have the energy to keep going.
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Category: Alex, Emma, Hannah, School
Tags: Alex, Emma, Hannah, Kids, kindergarten, lunch, recess, School, teachers
29
Jul 2010
I have always enjoyed doing puzzles. This is something that has been passed on to Hannah who will sit down at a puzzle, it doesn’t matter the level of difficulty, and start trying to put it together. In fact, Hannah will choose to do a puzzle over playing video games or just about anything else that her brother and sister want to do with her.
Sometime within the last year or so, Holly has also decided that puzzles are fun. I’m not sure what brought about this change, but she now loves to do puzzles. It used to be that I would suggest a 1000 piece puzzle with a really cool picture and Holly would complain that it had too many pieces and that puzzles were dumb. Now though, she actively seeks these large puzzles and looks forward to doing them. She has even gone so far as to hitting up garage sales and thrift stores looking for them at discount prices. Since I’m always up for a good puzzle, I have no complaints about this since people usually do a puzzle once then either get rid of it or leave it on a shelf to collect dust. Almost new puzzle for 50¢? What’s not to like?
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26
Jul 2010
A few months ago, Holly had decided that we needed to go on a camping trip over the 24th of July weekend. I had Friday the 23rd off and she didn’t work at all that weekend so she thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get away. For reasons that I can’t seem to remember at the moment, the camping trip for the 24th got moved up a few weeks leaving us with a three-day weekend full of nothing to do. Sure, there are plenty of things that need to be done around the house, but where is the fun in doing chores over a holiday weekend? After a quick call to invite my sister, Chelsea, it was decided that the Zohners would once again travel into the mountains.
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Category: Family, Vacation
Tags: Alex, awesome, camp, Camping, Chelsea, Duchesne River, Emma, Family, fishing, gun, Hades, Hannah, Holly, Jeremiah, Kids, mom, Red Ryder, shooting, trip
21
Oct 2009
Well, the whole family is finally recovered from the swine flu. When all was said and done, it had run rampant through our home for nigh on two weeks leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. In addition to taking down Alex and Emma, both Hannah and Holly got hit pretty hard too. Thankfully everything is now back to normal and everyone survived.
I was fortunate in that I managed to avoid becoming ill. I’ve since been exposed to the swine flu virus again at work (allegedly) and still feel fine. Either my immune system is freaking amazing or I’m doing something right because I’ve had multiple encounters with swine flu and come out on top every single time. Since I seem to be so lucky, I thought I’d share what has worked for me so that it can hopefully help you, my faithful reader, stay healthy.
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Category: General
Tags: Alex, bacon, Baconnaise, elderberry, Emma, Family, flu, Hannah, Holly, Kids, outbreak, pork, swine, TAMIFLU, virus
05
Oct 2009
I hate being sick. Fortunately for me, I’m not. Yet. I stress the word yet because it’s bound to happen.
Over the weekend, Alex started feeling ill. It started with a cough on Saturday afternoon. By Saturday night, he was so tired that he fell asleep while watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Him falling asleep while watching movies isn’t unusual but it was still pretty early in the evening.
Yesterday he woke up with a horrible cough and no voice. Combine this with a fever of 104 and we knew he was a sick little boy. We did what we could to cool him down and make him comfortable but he was one sick kid. When bedtime rolled around, Holly decided that he probably needed to be looked at by a doctor so she took him to the after-hours clinic. They tested him and confirmed what we had suspected: swine flu was upon us. The doctor wrote out a prescription for TAMIFLU which will allegedly help shorten the duration that the microscopic pigs are running rampant
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Category: Alex, Emma
Tags: Alex, bacon, Emma, Family, fever, flu, Hannah, Holly, Kids, pork, School, sick, swine, TAMIFLU
27
Sep 2009
When we found out that I would be getting laid off from Centercode, Holly was actually somewhat excited because it meant that I would have time to get things done around the house. In addition to finishing organizing the garage and shed, Holly had plans for painting and organizing Alex’s bedroom and getting all of the baby stuff set up in there.
I decided to start with the garage since it had been on my list of stuff to do for the longest amount of time. I knew that it was in bad shape but I had no idea that it would take me a week to get looking how I envisioned. I started by moving everything in the garage that belonged in the shed out. This meant that in addition to organizing the garage, I had to also organize the mostly empty shed. This wasn’t too big of a deal but it did take some time.
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Category: Holly, House, Jeremiah
Tags: Alex, bedroom, downstairs, food storage, furniture, garage, Hannah, Holly, House, paint, painting, unemployment
11
Aug 2009
I’ve been extremely conflicted today about what I should post. Should I post the so awesome it’s beyond awesome video for The Ballad of G.I. Joe or should I do something more family related since this, as the website name would imply, a family blog. After much deliberation, I’ve decided to tell everyone about Hannah’s new bedroom. For those who really wanted to know what the Joes do after hours, visit my other site, Stolen Droids, to check out the coolest thing you’ll see today.
Last week we were at Home Depot returning a few things that didn’t get used in our various summer projects. While we were there, Holly decided that she wanted to check out paint samples because we’ve been talking about painting the inside of the house. Because Hannah’s new bunk bed has been taking up space in the garage, we determined that her room would be the first to get a makeover. After checking out a few samples, it was decided that Hannah would get pink and purple walls with a Disney Princesses wallpaper border. She was so excited that she couldn’t hardly wait for it to be done. (When I say she, I could be referring to either Holly or Hannah. I’m not sure who was more excited.)
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30
Jul 2009
Yesterday Holly and I paid a visit to the doctor to find out the gender of our unborn baby. As we suspected, we’ll be having another boy. He appears to be developing very well and is still scheduled to join us in mid-January. Alex and Hannah are both very excited to get a little brother. Emma, not so much. I’m sure she’ll come around though.
Unfortunately we didn’t get any pictures of the ultrasound but I can assure you that he has one head, two brain halves, a spine, at least one arm, at least one leg, and a “boy part”. Surprisingly, that was all very clear to identify for my untrained eyes. Normally when we see the ultrasound image, it’s just a bunch of gray and black. If I’m lucky, I can sometimes see the heart but that’s only because it’s rhythmically beating. Yesterday, it was as if I had spent the last 20 years looking at ultrasound images because everything was easily identifiable and very clear. It was very cool.
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22
Jul 2009
Last week I had the pleasure of taking the kids to the dentist. This was a first for me since Holly usually takes them but we were able to get through things without any problems.
Emma and Hannah both had no cavities but the dentist found a “small one” on one of Alex’s teeth. I figured that we’d have to bring him back but the dentist just took him into a back room, had him open his mouth, and proceeded to drill out the cavity. The entire process took about three minutes. They didn’t even numb Alex’s mouth! I couldn’t believe what I had seen. Alex was in no pain and he was once again cavity free.
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Category: Alex, Emma, Hannah
Tags: Alex, cavity, dentist, Dr. Seuss, Emma, gas, Hannah, Holly, Kids, tooth fairy
06
Jul 2009
The Fourth of July is always a big deal in the Zohner household, and to be honest, why wouldn’t it be? After all, I come from a long line of rednecks (my grandma used to have a TV that worked on top of her TV that didn’t). The Fourth of July is the perfect redneck holiday! Not only do we get to celebrate the birth of our nation but we get to blow stuff up and cook meat on fire. Who could ask for more?
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Category: Family, Holidays
Tags: Alex, America, Black Cat, city parade, country, dinner, Family, food, fourth of july, fourth of july celebrations, Granite High, Hannah, holiday, Holly, Kaysville, KFC, Main Street, meat, movie, Music, pride, south salt lake
Well, another school year is underway. Emma is now in fifth grade, Alex is in first, and Hannah has started kindergarten. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there to send them off, but Holly walked to school with them and made sure that they found their teachers without any problems.
