By: hamson on September 12, 2009
By: hamson on June 13, 2009
Tyler turns 2 years old on June 16th so we had a “little” family birthday party for him.
By: hamson on June 12, 2009
Summer is here. We looked at our options for the kids this summer and as it turned out there isn’t much out there for our age kids and what is out there is really expensive.
In talking with the Kuletos and Konolds, we realized we could have our very own “summer camp” between ourselves. For now we have decided on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 9-11am. The benefits of this camp is, it is virtually free (we bought a few items for crafts and playing), I trust the people involved completely and Tyler gets to participate. Each day we get to drop both of our kids off with the person in charge for the day for two hours. Then at 11 when we go to pick them up, we can stick around and let them keep playing and all have lunch together.
Today was the first day and it went very well. We had a tiny bit of rain that brought us inside from our craft quickly, but the kids did great. I’m hopeful that it will continue to work and the kids will like it.
By: hamson on May 25, 2009
Memorial Day morning started in La Jolla. We made ourselves a nice big breakfast and then headed down to the beach. Josh Konold’s whole family spends Memorial Day at the beach starting early with breakfast burritos. Since we were in La Jolla we headed to where they set up north of the pier to hang out for the morning, tire the boys out and play before we go to Corona for our own family gathering.
By: hamson on May 22, 2009
Paige and Lilly are finally not sick and the Konold family comes over for dinner and playtime.
By: hamson on May 12, 2009
We couldn’t get a baby sitter for Friday night to go out for Jessica’s birthday, and her actual birthday is the 10th so we were celebrating Mother’s Day, so instead we celebrated together at the Konold’s house.
By: hamson on January 7, 2009
The Kuletos ended up driving home this morning at 3am after their children had woken up in the middle of the night puking. Instead of trying to deal with it in the hotel, Tony bought a large Diet Coke and drove the family home.
Josh had to go back to work this morning and Brandy wasn’t up for staying at Disneyland for the day with her two kids so after we had breakfast together they also went home.
So instead of a second day of Disneyland with friends, it ended up being a family day at Disneyland. And we had another great day.
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