Recycled Toys

I am sure that all parents are like us that we accumulate lots of toys, toys that are either passed down, bought, or mysteriously show up. We had only planned to be at my parent's house for two weeks so I didnt pack many toys and the toys that I did pack G is bored with, so today I decided to hit the consignement store here in Washington to get some new toys that will occupy him until we get moved in.

I was quite pleased with my find of the day. G was too! as soon as he saw it in the store he wanted it, this has entertained him most of the day. I am sure the toy wasnt designed for the way that he played with it, but if it makes him happy and its safe, then this momma is happy too.

Gotta luv a great deal!

So we close on our house in 3 weeks, one thing that J and I agreed on was that we weren't going to go crazy and spend a lot of money buying stuff for the new house.
Our original date to close on the house was July 6th, so I have had a ton of time thinking and planning how I wanted to decorate the house. I loved our last house, but wanted to do different colors, which meant a lot of my decorations, rugs, and curtains would not match. I am happy to say that patience and discipline has paid off. Almost everything I wanted to buy I found this week at Target for 75% off. We needed several large area rugs and managed to get most of them for $30.00 or even cheaper. The bath rugs where less than $5.00. Yes, I had to go to 3 different stores to get everything, but when you see what I spent and what I got, you would have done the same thing!!

A great day.

So today we met up with some friends and went to six flags. We got there at 3:30, and hit almost all of the good rides before the park closed at 8... Evil knievel (quite fast, and fun), the Scrambler (now called Shazam!), Mr. Freeze (always good), Thunder River (soaked), the Mine Train (still as jerky as I remember, still fun too [I still remember losing my green visor on there as a small child]), The Screaming Eagle (a classic, though it is getting bumpy again), bumper cars (still very fun), rush street flyer (I can see the car from here!), scooby doo's haunted swamp (we're still young), Batman (smooth and fun), the Ninja (bumpy for steel, but still consistently good), and Tony Hawk's big spin (enjoyable and very dizzying).

All in great weather with my beautiful wife and great friends. It was a truly great day.

-Josh

Oh, and we took only one picture of us... :)




I should also mention that I bought Gideon a lightsaber toy, which he enjoyed when we got home. He already knows to say, "Voooom, vooom" when waving it around :)

Dandy-bear moment.

Just a cute Teddy bear moment

My new addiction!!

Anyone that knows me very well, knows I have a huge shutterfly addition. My favorite memory growing up was sitting in my Grandma V's basement and looking through all of her photo albums. Scrapbooking is awesome, don't get me wrong, but I love being able to create an entire book in one night and have it shipped to me in less than a week.

Blogging is something that I enjoy doing, but hated that I wasn't able to "keep" it or be able to print it until now, I found a website called Blog2print.com and received my first book on Friday. The book looks like a shutterfly album, the website uploads all the pictures, text and comments and even puts the original date of the posting on it. Super cool!!

Check it out bloggers, you won't be disappointed. Great way to "keep" the postings for your kids! So yes they will know what we thought of parenthood and all the successes and mistakes we made :-)

Toby suffers terrible lawnmower accident

So as I posted my last blog entry I looked up to see that Toby the Talkbot had apparently fallen suddenly out of favor. Fortunately the only thing damaged was Toby's pride... this time...

Toby keeps on teaching

Just felt like mentioning that Toby the Talkbot still gets a grin and has begun teaching that the same button may give different results with multiple pushes...

Just a cute picture Aunt Cara took...

Living with Pa and Barba

So we have been staying with my parents for the past two months while we settle things with the house, aren't going to go into details on the blog for varies reasons.... anyhow....G has become very attached to his grandparents so much in fact that he is on first name with my mom. It is rather amusing hearing a little guy running down the hall calling out for her - Barba, Barba...

In around about way it has sorta been nice being back at home, I am not going to lie I hate the sofa bed and I hate even more the drive from Washington to St. Louis, but it has sorta caused me to slow my life down. I miss my friends, but I do enjoy the time I have gotten to spend with my parents. I tease them that G is going to have major withdraws once we do move, but I think I will too.

Thanks Mom and Dad for being so great to us the past month!!

Vacations are the best!!

We are in Florida at the moment and having a WONDERFUL time! Do I need to say more ??