Day 45-48

Day 45


Even though he was in the field I still had flowers on Valentine's Day. :)


Day 46

Packages! :)

Day 47

I took advantage of a sale at Persnickety Prints and got a bunch of my layouts printed. It's so awesome to see them in print instead of on the computer.

Day 48




Two pictures for today. My little man is 4! When did that happen? lol He wasn't too happy with me for wanting to take a picture. Oh well.

Day 42-44

Day 42



Nerf sword fight between Tom and Alex.


Day 43



Tom's gear all packed up for his ship op.


Day 44



A box filled with goodies from Great Grammy.

Day 41

Day 41


Tommy and Anthony spent some time addressing Valentine's for their classmates.

Day 34 - 40

I swear I've been keeping up with taking a photo every day! It does happen, some days require more thought and some staging to get a photo of something, but I do take a moment every day and try to record something meaningful to us for that particular day.

Day 34



February 3 ... Alex sitting waiting for Tommy to be finished up at the dentist. We found these Chuck's of Tommy's in the hall closet and decided we should try them on. Alex was extremely pleased to find out that they fit.

Day 35




February 4 ... Tom's boots chilling by the front door after he got out of the field for the day.

Day 36



February 5 ... On this Friday I had a pretty bad headache and convinced the boys that this was the day to try to walk to school on their own. I promised that it was just a trial and that I would watch them walk nearly 1/2-way to school. They survived the walk, lived to see another day, in fact...they have walked to school on their own each day since then :)

Day 37



February 6 ... During our outing we stopped to grab the boys some Burger King on the way back home. Tom asked the cashier for some crowns and he sported one the rest of the way home :)

Day 38



February 7 ... The title to the Dodge Stratus. It's been signed off of from the bank and we received it in the mail. We paid it off when we got our income tax refund - over a full year early. It will be a shock to not have to make that payment every month anymore.

Day 39



February 8 ... The boys walked themselves to school again on this morning. One advantage to this is that Alex gets to sleep in and wake up when he's ready.

Day 40



February 9 ... Alex playing with connectagons this afternoon just before it was time to leave to go get the boys from school.

Day 29 - 33

Day 29

The boys had the day off from school so I drug them to the grocery store first thing in the morning.

Day 30
Shopping, we grabbed 6 packs of diapers to try to lessen what we'll have to buy in a few months.


Day 31
This is what we did all day, watched movies. In the past few days we watched the top 6.


Day 32
Alex blowing bubbles in the house. He's so proud of himself that he can usually make a lot of bubbles.

Day 33
Anthony lost his first tooth last Thursday, but we kept forgetting to take his picture. Until last night he kept forgetting to put his tooth under his pillow when he went to bed.

Day Twenty-Six through Twenty-Eight

Not so many days behind this time. As I'm writing this the boys are getting ready to head to bed. An hour later than normal, but it's acceptable since they have no school tomorrow. Tom went to bed early because he had a horrible headache and has swim qual at work tomorrow. Anyway...onto the pictures.


Day 26
This is Anthony cleaning the baseboards in the kitchen. He was supposed to have done his "fair share" in cleaning up the back yard and he didn't, Tommy ended up doing the majority of the clean-up. So, this was Anthony's additional chore.


Day 27
Grocery lists, coupons, printouts, etc. I'm trying to begin a better spending trend at the grocery store so that we can save some money. I've spent quite a bit of time gathering coupons, checking out money saving and couponing websites. I've only scratched the surface when it comes to this whole couponing trend so I can't say I'm spending next to nothing, but if at the very least I can shop smarter to save more money then I'll be happy.


Day 28
It was sunny and 65* here in SoCal today. A beautiful day and perfect afternoon for a much anticipated play-date. Everyone grabbed a wheeled vehicle and they were off. We learned that Tommy really needs a bigger bike and Alex will probably learn to ride without training wheels before Anthony. Anthony likes his Razor scooter so much more than his bike. It was nice for us all to get out of the house for a few hours and enjoy the warmer weather and sunshine.

Day Twenty-Three through Twenty-Five

Day 23

Alex was playing with Rocky and then Rocky realized that Alex still had some remnants of lunch on his face.


Day 24

We let the boys use their Toys R Us gift cards. This is what Tommy picked out. Awesome in theory, he hadn't seen Halo Legos. But, they aren't "real" legos, these are made by Mega Blocks. They suck. The boys had gotten some a few years ago for Christmas, but I had hoped that their quality had gotten better since then so I didn't mention it when Tommy picked this Halo kit out. Ugh, putting it together sucked and it's basically in pieces again. Poor kid.


Day 25

We used this Maple Chops recipe by Sam the Cooking Guy for dinner this night. They were really good and easy to make. The boys even ate it without asking for dip, which is saying alot! :)