Dreams and the Future

For as long as I can remember (yes, I know...how long could that really be? I mean, I can barely remember events from last week!) I have had a particular dream. This was not a dream of financial fortune, world peace or anything like that. This had to do with how I envisioned my family.

Long before I was ever married...long before I ever had children...I would notice changes in our society and connect some of those changes (and they were not very positive changes) with the fact that there were fewer and fewer parents who could afford to live on a single income. As a result, more and more children were having to be cared for by day-care providers.

Where's the Posts!?

So, after posting a whole bunch of new pictures and such over the past couple weeks, I finally realized that something happened to the feed for this blog. The thing that happened was...it wasn't working.

That means that nobody got any of the posts or pictures that I've posted recently in their e-mail. I suppose if I had been doing a better job of posting more consistently, someone would have noticed that something was amiss and brought it to my attention sooner. However, there would be no way for you all to know that since I haven't posted in a while.

Da Boyz

This trip was pretty much all about the boys. Nate and Kyle, being just under four months apart, were just there to have fun. They played, they went on rides, they ate junk food and just generally had a good time.

Oh, yeah. Did I mention that they also were both a couple of good looking young boys? Not that I’m biased or anything…

Gigi

While Kyle visited with characters and got a bunch of photo ops, Kaitlyn decided to just be cute and let everyone get all mushy around her. Gigi, in particular, was quite taken with her.

Really, who can blame her? She’s so darn cute. As you’ll see in some future posts, she has the cutest smile ever! What can I say…we make cute babies!!

Donald Duck

Continuing on, as I mentioned with Pluto, Kyle never mentioned any desire to see Donald Duck. Nonetheless, he got into line and got a couple shots with one of the “Fab Five.”

It’s actually starting to get kinda fun since he is old enough to understand that we’re taking pictures and he’s supposed to look at the camera and smile. I guess it beats screaming and having the daylights scared out of him when standing next to a six foot bird!

Pluto

Most of you may have heard that we went to Disneyland last month. Aside from one major mishap on our last day, Kyle loved it. Though I think we came to the conclusion that we’re going to hold off from further trips until Kaitlyn gets a bit older.

There were only two people Kyle talked about wanting to see at Disneyland, Mary Poppins and Peter “Pam.” When we first got into the park, the first people (characters) that we saw were Mary Poppins and Bert. We immediately got in line.

Bouncy

I know I’m waaaaay behind on posting stuff. But I figured, what better place to start than with the poor little baby who seems to get so little attention as compared to her big brother. So, this post is all about Katie.

We’ll start of with, not really a big deal, but cute, nonetheless. It’s hard not to be cute with Katie since she is actually much more adorable than the lack of pictures posted would indicate.