Daniel Kindergarden and Soccer

Daniel started Kindergarden in early Sept. It's been a little rough but hopefully, with two weeks down, we'll have an easier time this week. Here are a couple pics of his first day of school and his first soccer game which was today.

Summer, summer, summertime!

90 degrees and obscenely hot!

Daniel's Birthday

We had a fun birthday today for Daniel -- bowling and now a sleepover with the boys! Here are some pictures. Daniel found this great cupcake-cake in a cookbook and it was fun to make. He got some great gifts and had a blast with his friends. He also got a fabulous candy and balloons delivery from Grandma and Grandpa!

Test Post

I'm actually doing a test post because my business blog isn't publishing...

As an update... we have had 3 days of sunshine (after our torrential downpour) and got the grass seeds sown... hopefully they'll take!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter -- We had a busy, work-focused weekend. Last week, our yard was finally cleared, rolled and new topsoil added. That left us to finally put up the kids' new playset. Got most of it done yesterday as well as planting of flowers, plants and veggies. We planned to finish it up today as well as sow the seeds for the grass - BUT it rained all day - which is an understatement -- in fact, it looked a bit more like Panama than Seattle! So we watched our new topsoil drain off our front yard into the gutter... hopefully it's not as bad as it looked. We called our landscaping guy to see whether he thinks any real damage was done. Good thing we didn't do the seeds on Saturday - they would have washed away.

Today we went to church and then to 0/8 for brunch - yum!

I seemed to have misplaced the USB gadget that allows me to download pictures from my camera to my PC so all the pics I have available right now are taken on my phone... Kids at Mass, Daniel w/ Rabbit at 0/8 and new playset (thanks to Matt)!

Enjoy!

Happenings

It's been a fun-filled week. On Friday night, the kids participated in their school's annual Springfest with each of them performing with their respective classes before an auditorium of 200 family and friends. It was soooo fun to watch! Once I get the right cable, I'll download the video to Facebook and maybe here, too, if I can figure it out.

Yesterday, Matt took Daniel to his Kindergarden assessment at his prospective school. It seems things went well except Daniel "wasn't able to hold his pencil properly." I know full well that he is able to do so -- obstinance? forgetfulness? While they were at kindergarden, Kyra and I went for a special girls' treat -- a mommy-daughter pedicure. She loved it -- and I needed it! What fun!

Remiss

So I've been incredibly remiss about posting here. I began using Facebook and have been updating that more often... Kyra just turned 3 -- and we're hoping three is less terrible than two... she is such a sweet, lovable girl -- when she's happy... and then there's when she doesn't get her way...

We are loving being in the new house. We are still working on some of the furniture as we didn't bring a lot over with us from the old house. We just put the old house back on the market... at a much lower price... better to just get out if we can. We'll see.

Another really cool thing: The restaurant was just listed as one of Wine Enthusiast's Best Restaurants for 2008.

I'll try to be better with my posts.