I just started keeping tabs on my old hometown paper The Wednesday Journal. Something that caught my eye was the story on renovating the WWI memorial. It has a list of the the local boys that served in the war.
The list of oak Park Veterans is here. You will see my grandfather Milford Collins [...]
Here is the video of Liam in the dance recital. Someone else shot the video so it wasn’t on Liam and I the whole time. But you can still see how cute it is.
Liam’s Baby & Me class -Dance Recital 2009 from Owen Collins on Vimeo.
It’s raining again. The difference is that we are in New Jersey instead of Virginia. Our epic summer travel has begun. The house is being watched, as are the dogs. So it is odd to be without some of the usual interruptions.
We already had our quick trip to New York City. Ann’s friend Joanna [...]
Here is a video of Arden ‘graduating’ from preschool. It was super cute. ENjoy.
Arden’s Preschool Graduation from Owen Collins on Vimeo.
We had a fun day today. Friends came over for brunch, Liam opened presents, Arden and Liam rode around on my back, what more could you want?
All in all a very good day. Made me not want the kids to get any older.
The girls were given a craft kit from Ikea as a christmas present. It is made from the PYSSLA beads kit. You set all the beads on a little frame, put some wax paper on top a little pass with a iron, Viola!
Raw material
I immediately saw the ability to make little pictures pixel by pixel.
Laying [...]
I have finally gotten around to posting the pictures from Arden’s birthday. As you can see there was a lot of bacon going on.
We had pin the bacon on the plate of eggs, a bacon piniata, and a bacon looking( but not tasting) cake.
Also McKelvey has had her birthday, and one of her presents [...]
Lately I have begun to think about growing up. not myself mind you, that is a long way off, but my kids.
As a parent I want to savor every bit of cute childhood-ness that I see every day. But at the same time I’m supposed to be prepping the kids to grow up. Part of [...]
well we are back from our extreme holiday excursion. Extreme because it involved driving back and forth across the country in a minivan with 3 kids and 2 dogs. And overall the kids did great. not a lot of complaining pretty good cooperating and average amount of arguing with each other. Thank goodness for laptop [...]
