10:30 am: Depart for Manhattan, KS. Ily is at the wheel. Around 85 degrees. There are actually a other cars on the road in Colorado!

11:00 am: 90 degrees already. Bryan is a little surprised at how flat this “mountain state” is. Oh sure, we can see big …

We didn’t travel today, so I won’t give you the play-by-play trip log. We spent the day with Ily’s Uncle Ron and her paternal grandparents, Lloyd and Dorothy (Dot). We started with the tour of Ron’s little house and property on the hill overlooking Tuttle Creek …

NOTE: All times are approximate

10:00 am: (Yup, no early start today, we learned our lesson yesterday) Fill up with gas for $4.19/gallon (it’s getting cheaper! oh wait, the octane got lower too…). Should have thought of that last night. Depart with Ily in the pilot …

NOTE: All times are approximate.

4 am: Bryan and Ily wake up to get ready for the road trip.

5:30 am: Get boys in the car.

6:00 am: We cross the Columbia and officially begin. Bryan at the helm.

7:00 am: Notice the outside temperature is already …

Last night we went to a park for the mandatory soccer meeting at the beginning of the season to meet your coach and find out about practices and such. There were something like 500 people there all to meet their coaches, get their team t-shirt, and learn the guidelines of …

Those are the words spoken tonight at dinner by Reece, our two year old. He has mastered using a fork. What good manners. He has mastered using a spoon. What good manners. He has learned how to be mostly polite, but he still lacks the skills of eating with his …

Here is the link to the birthday pictures. It was the best easiest birthday ever at our house. I should do that more often. Reece’s actual birthday was Monday and I considered taking the kids out for ice cream to celebrate but when they were given the option to …

After discussing the matter with some friends and researching on the internet, we decided to try the Scarecrow Sprinkler to try and keep cats out of the sandbox. It was on sale for half off at Amazon.com and it looked like it’d be fun for the kids, even …

We had a family birthday party for Reece’s 2nd birthday on Saturday. Mom, Dad, Melinda, Benj, Jason came. We went to Jungle Playland and since the weather was sunny we practically had the whole place to ourselves. After that we had lunch at the nearby Burgerville and then went …

We went to Lucia Falls on Saturday. We had so much fun there last year and we were hoping for a repeat. It was much different this year. The water was a good 4 or 5 feet higher so the falls themselves were more impressive, but a lot less rocks …