Month: September 2013

Welcoming Robert Dodge Pendleton

We have a new star to add to the blog.  Please welcome, Bobby …   Last Wednesday, I received a thank you note in the mail.  Tommy confiscated it immediately – before I even had a chance to read it.  I asked him what it said.  Tommy told me that it said the baby was […]

Ricky earned his Wolf Badge

I will be the first to admit that I don’t know a whole lot about the scouting program, especially the cub scouting program, but I am very aware of the fact that I have 5 boys and I’m going to become VERY well acquainted with it! I can happily say that we made it to […]

Rusty starts preschool

One of Rusty’s countdowns finally hit zero … he got to start preschool!!!   He was up very early and got himself dressed in such a hurry that he had to come find Kevin and I … he’d put his head through his sleeve and couldn’t get it back out!   We had gone to […]

Toads

When we first moved into the new home, Ricky’s biggest complaint was that our backyard was dull and empty.  We have been working on filling it up – a pool, swing set, etc – but it does lack the bushes and “Daisy Forest” of our previous backyard.  I tried to comfort him by telling him […]

The Big Pool

With a husband who swam competitively in high school and still prefers that method of exercise and four boys who think bath time is meant for playing not cleaning, a swimming pool was definitely in our future as we moved to our bigger yard. Me?  I don’t like to get my face wet.  We’ll just […]