Author: Cindy

Since we were so close to Kevin’s Grandpa and Grandma Pendleton’s home (Grandpa Dick and Grandma Evelyn), it was decided that we should do some work for them.  There was a deck and some benches to be stained, leaves and sticks to be picked up, rain gutters to be cleaned, etc.  My kids were done […]

Rusty and Tommy are just 15 months apart in age.  I refer to them collectively as “the babies.”  I’m sure I’ll have to stop that someday. Tommy is incredibly jealous.  He can be jealous of a dog, a cat, a sandwich … but Tommy gets especially jealous of Rusty.  The feeling is reciprocal.  Rusty’s jealously […]

Kevin and I wanted to get the boys on a boat since we were so close to a harbor and to Puget Sound.  I found a boat tour that went through the harbor and out under the Tacoma Narrows Bridges that sounded like just what we wanted.  We convinced Kevin’s parents and two sisters to […]

We try to get to a parade for the Fourth of July each year, but this year we just couldn’t find one in Washington.  It was probably better that way.  The Primary group from church was going to be in our hometown parade and the boys were a bit sad to be missing it.  Ricky […]

Ricky is a very smart boy but he has definite things he does and doesn’t like to do.  He also is very good at knowing what he can get someone else to do for him so he doesn’t have to do it.  When he was a toddler, I joked that if I would chew his […]