Merry Christmas!!

We had a great Christmas yesterday, I hope everyone else did as well. If you don;t celebrate Christmas, well then, I hope it was a great day. (But you really should think about celebrating Christmas, it's a great holiday).

I'll post our Christmas letter soon, but I wanted to put up some pictures from the day.

We had a lot of fun, we go over to my parents on Christmas eve, and then have Christmas morning at our house. There is a new slideshow on the left of our pictures from our house.

Long overdue update

Wow, has it really been over a month since I last posted. Guess so, man I'm a bum....

All are doing well here, the kids are all doing their own thing more and more. Leland just finished working on the crew for his first high school play, they did a punk rendition of 12th night. Cheri and I went to see it on opening night, and I must say it was a very entertaining and enjoyable performance. Leland had a great time and has already signed up to crew for the next one, a musical.

William has a part in the Seusical the musical performance for the middle school, he is playing one of the Wikersham brothers, and is really enjoying the practices at least.

Jonathan is kind of biding his time right now, soccer is over, and the middle school dropped it's wrestling program.  We are going to try and find a indoor team he can play on, but for now, he is just doing schoolwork and playing computer games.

Ethan is working hard in first grade, and is having fun at everything he does. I'll put together a list of some of the funny things he has said, Cheri keeps a list, some of them are a riot.

Welcome to the Republican Party

I just got this from my Dad in an email, I thought it was funny.

I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'

'Wow - what a worthy goal,' I told her. 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food or a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds 'cuse she's only 6. And while her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'

And I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'

Bellhaven

Dinner tonight is looking much better...

Dinner in Manhattan

I am in NY for work and since it's pouring down rain I am eating at
the close and open restaurant next to my hotel instead of one of the
much better choices in Chinatown or littl Italy a few blocks away.

French restaurant in chinatown staffed by a Spanish speaking staff for
the loose ... at least it's expensive. <sigh>

Cool new assistive technology

I was tempted to title this, "... put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking cross the floo-ooo-oor" but that seemed to make too light of what is possibly the coolest assistive device I've seen in a while.

ReWalk, developed by an Israeli company is pretty darn cool, check it out here, along with a video of a man who was wheelchair bound after an accident left him a paraplegic, walking with the help of the device.

Went canoeing last week

Sorry again about the long delay between posts, I'd blame it on something, but I can't think of anything besides myself to blame it on, so I'll leave off blaming anything...

My dad and I took the three older kids canoeing last week, which they enjoyed greatly, I have updated the rotating image browse on the sidebar to reflect those pictures, fwiw.

A good time was had by all, even though the canoe "accidently" tipped over a couple times...

This blog is not abandoned

Hi all, and sorry for my vast silence lately.  Work has been slow of late, which means I need to work much harder to make sure we get busy...

The kids are all doing well, they are at camp this week, which means it is work-a-palooza for me this week.

I did read an interesting news story recently, for those of you who still sleep well at night, this may fix that.

This is not an approved use of duct tape .... I mean really, dude ....

William practicing staging for his play this spring.

He is playing the fox in Pinnocchio (sp?)...

At Jonathan's soccer game.

And recovering after surgery.

drinking his sprite...

Ethan waitng for surgery

Here he is reclining in his ben waiting for his time to get his ears
cleaned out. We are also having his tounge clipped from the bottom of
his mouth since he will already be out. He is very tounge-tied, and
this should help quite a bit.