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Fourth of July

tycage — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:33:05 +0000

Yesterday we got back from an awesome first summer vacation. First we went to Clinton, and then to the Beach to spend 6 days enjoying the sun and the water. The kids had a wonderful time swimming and fishing! Then we headed off to Charlotte on Friday for a big meet up of the whole family. It was a great time also! It was capped off with a Charlotte Knights baseball game Saturday night (The Knights beat the Durham Bulls 11 to 2). That evening was again capped off with an amazing fireworks display at the ball park! X loved the game and we are planning on going to some Frederick Keys games now over the rest of the summer. Both kids (and everyone else there) were amazed by the incredible fireworks display! They’d never seen fireworks from so close up before and it was a joy to be able to watch them enjoying them. Yesterday was the long trip home, but it was well worth all the driving we’ve done (over 1000 miles since the 25th). We had a wonderful time both alone and seeing the rest of my side of the family.

Xander’s 9th

tycage — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:32:35 +0000

Xander has turned 9. He says he had a great day, which is what we tried to give him. We got up and had the breakfast that he wanted. Then we opened up his presents. Lots of Legos this year, which he’s really into right now. He spent some time building them before we went off to My Gym. The kids had a good time there and then we went to Ruby Tuesday for lunch. After we got him he had a good time working on his Legos and playing some Super Mario Galaxy. I made him meat loaf with mashed potatoes and peas for dinner, and that seemed to have turned out well. He was just so happy all day that I couldn’t help but enjoy the day with him. It has been an amazing 9 years.

Basketball

tycage — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:19:54 +0000

The kids have been wanting to go play on the basketball court for a week or so now, but we’ve not been going because of Kate’s ankle. We took them yesterday and they seem to have had a good time.

An Amazing, Exciting, Historic Day

tycage — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:35:01 +0000

Our house is very excited to be watching Obama sworn in today. I don’t have much to add that others haven’t already said elsewhere. I just want to express out excitement and joy on this momentous day.

Back to Work

tycage — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:01:05 +0000

Heading back to work this morning, and the kids are back to school. We’ve had a wonderful vacaction. It’s been a very fun and relaxing 2 weeks. I’m proud of the kids this morning though, they did as good (or maybe a better) job as I did getting up and getting back into the routine. We’ll be leaving in a few minutes to head back to it. Like I said, the vacaction was wonderful. I enjoyed getting to spend 2 weeks with the kids, it’s worth saving up the vacation all year to be able to do it.

Merrty Christmas

tycage — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:48:33 +0000

We’ve had an exciting and busy morning. Everyone has had a great time opening our wonderful presents. We hope everyone else has had as enjoyable morning as we have. We are getting ready to have breakfast now.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas Eve 2008

tycage — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:00:16 +0000

We’ve had an exciting Christmas Eve. Mira has a bad croupy cold, so that has curtailed our plans somewhat, but we have soildiered on. Kate went out this morning to do our last minute food shopping for tomorrow. Then after that she and Xander went out for coffee (which Xander had wanted to do yesterday) to just talk and hang out, which they both enjoyed. I stayed here with Mira and we had a good time enjoying Max and Ruby together.

Our traditional sushi outing got curtailed a bit. We had sushi in instead. We’re planning to do our big sushi outing later, once Mira is feeling better. She was up for going out and looking at Christmas lights though, which was enoyed by all.

After that, we came back home and the kids opened up two presents each. One “normal” present, and then a special one which contained new PJs for each of them, which they were very excited to run upstairs and get into. (Good thinking, Mommy!)

They are alseep by now (I hope) and we are just about done getting things ready for tomorrow.

Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope you’ve had as enjoyable a Christmas Eve as we have.

The Nutcracker

tycage — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:38:05 +0000

So we took the kids to see The Nutcracker today. It was performfed by The Loudoun Ballet Company. We all enjoyed it very much. Mira had a little trouble near the end, it was a little bit too long for her. It was almost too long for Xander to, but he managed to keep focused to the end. They both said they enjoyed it though and would like to see it again next year. We all had a wonderful time.

Home Again

tycage — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:52:59 +0000

We are back home safe and sound now. It has been a great week. Thanksgiving day was beautiful in Clinton. The weather Thursday and Friday was amazing. We got lots of time for all the kids to enjoy various activities outside. One of the most fun new things for Xander and Mira was playing on the hay bales on the edges on the farm. They had a lot of fun with that as well as go-kart and barbie car riding, golf, general running around, Wii playing (that was inside of course) and just having a general good time with the cousins. They got an extra treat on Friday when JPa took everyone up for airplane rides! The trip home today went smoothly, no major traffic problems and the weather was fine for it. We may be getting snow tomorrow though! It was a wondeful vacaction and we are looking forward to some time tomorrow to wind down from it.

Thanksgiving 2008

tycage — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:48:28 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We’ve had a great week so far. Sunday we headed down to Kate’s parents. That was a long day, but the kids did their usual great job. Then on Monday we went to Biltmore House to see the Christmas decorations there, which the kids loved also. We also had lunch there at the Stable Cafe to celebrate Kate’s Mom’s birthday. Tuesday we had a more leisurly day around the house.

Wednesday we spent in the car again to head here to Clinton. We’re having a great time here also. Looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner later today once everyone has arrived.

Civic Duty Done

tycage — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:00:44 +0000

We got our voting done this morning. We were there around 7:30am to find no line at all. There was apparently a line at 6am when they opened, but it had cleared out by the time we got there. That’s the report I’ve been hearing from most of my friends as well. After that we went and had our traditional breakfast at McDonald’s with the kids. Then we went off to parent/teacher conferences for both of them, which went well also. It’s been a nice morning. I decided to take the day off from work, since we had those things to do, and we didn’t know how long the lines would be. The kids are out of school today, so I figured I’d enjoy the day with them.

Happy Halloween!

tycage — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:37:32 +0000

We just got back from our trick-or-treating with out Princess Aurora and our Jedi Knight. They have developed more stamina over the years, we were out for over an hour tonight. They had a lot of fun and there is a lot of candy for us to check over tonight!

Apple Picking

tycage — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:31:31 +0000

So Mira asked me to go with her on the apple picking field trip again this year, and I was happy to tag along. The apples weren’t as easy to get this year, but we had a great time anyway. We ate a bunch of apples there and brought home a nice haul for enjoying with the rest of the family later. I always enjoy these moments with either of my kids. I try to take time to cherish them, because I know they’ll be grown up sooner than I expect.

Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories and Final Fantasy

tycage — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:59:30 +0000

Square Enix has announced that is will be releasing the PS2 version of Chain of Memories here in the States this December. It’s Final Mix+ minus the Kingdom Hearts II stuff. The box art looks pretty nice. Xander and I will no doubt get quite a bit of enjoyment out of this release. Kingdom Hearts is one of our favorite series.

He’s started in on Final Fantasy now too. He’s currently working his way through Final Fantasy IV on his DS and seems the be enjoying it a lot.

First Day of School Update

tycage — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:49:27 +0000

The kids seems to have both had a good day at school today. They are their ususal talkative selves about it, so details are few. Xander did admit to getting a lesson today and having done several works. Mira said she did a couple of works today as well. They got to eat lunch together, which they’ve been looking forward too, even though they’ve done it every day all summer as well. They are both tired, though Mira more so than Xander, it would appear. From what we could get out of them though, it sounds like it was a good start to the school year.