Peanuts’ First Vacation: Ruidoso, New Mexico 2012
Let me start off by saying if it wasn’t for the generosity of my father, Papa Tom, and Mary Ann, this trip wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you both for inviting our family to share your vacation. We never even considered taking a vacation with the kids this year until you brought it up. I’m [...]
A Full Friday: PT and Pickleball
Friday was a crazy busy day. It started out with a morning trip to Texas State University’s physical therapy department. Ellisa’s ex-PT asked if we would come in for her students to evaluate. I of course said yes. Anything I can do to persuade a student to go into pediatric physical therapy, I’ll do. Plus, [...]
Easter 2012
I was trying to remember what we did last year for the twins first Easter and when I reread the blog entry Easter 2011, I was shocked to read that we did almost the exact same thing this Easter. We started off the day with some pickleball in Little Stacey Park. Courtney, Jess, Grandpa Walsh, [...]
Christmas and New Year’s Write-Up 2011
This has easily been the best Christmas I have had since being an adult. The Purma’s came into town and we did nothing but truly enjoying ourselves. Going to see Santa, Christmas cookie making, home-made meals (Thank You Vicki!), lots of presents, and tons of family and love made for the best Christmas ever. The [...]
Pumpkins, Peanuts, and Pickleball: A Perfect Purma Halloween
This was the best Halloween weekend I can remember. My babies were both home, healthy, and in good spirits. I’m a happy mom! Why am I so grateful for a good Halloween? Last year was the twin’s first official Halloween, although I think of this year as their first since Ellisa wasn’t home from NICU [...]
Fall is here. Kinda.
So, I don’t have the energy to do the post I really wanted to do today, so instead I thought I would sum up an almost perfect “Fall” weekend (Fall is in quotes because the high is still in the lower 90′s). Friday night Charles, the kids, and I had a mini-picnic outside the condo [...]