Grandma and some friends were playing outside; it was a hot, dusty day, and she was somewhere around eight-yrs old, I think….
The kids decided they were going to play jump rope, and everyone was yelling, “I’m first! I’m first! No — I get to go first!!” Grandma just sat back and watched all of this […]

We finally — after almost two years in this house — can say that we’ve used our basketball net. Clint bought a ball a few days ago and, since it was nice out this afternoon, moved my car out of the driveway so we could shoot some hoops. It took a little while […]

It was a good birthday! (Pics from today are here.)
Last night, Clint helped the kids make cards for me. They were so excited that they wanted to know if I could get up at 5 am to open them; I told them “sorry, but no,” and said I’d open them when I […]

We picked up the videos for the JA Dallas project today. Linda told me it was okay to bring Christina along, so we did. She smiled at everybody and waved at a couple of people, and had a blast crawling around the conference room while we talked to Linda about the project.
We asked […]

1) Christina walked, holding just my fingertips, for the first time this morning! She’s been using her push-walker for a couple of weeks now, but this is the first time she’s grabbed my hands and just taken off. She was so excited about it that she squealed!
2) We took Christina […]

We got the job!!!
We’re super-excited and can’t wait to get started!
We go in Friday afternoon, to pick up the materials, and then we have ten days or so to go through everything and come up with some sort of game plan. We’ll be checking in with them periodically to make sure we’re on the […]