Tuesday the 29 near nine o'clock

Well lets see here.....

• my dear wife is asleep with our daughter on her bed - nice
• our son is likely asleep on our bed watching "The Princess comes to life movie" otherwise known as Enchanted again - nice
• Earlier this evening I got two tickets to this Fridays Braves game at the TED, and I have checked with two people so far to see if they are interested and neither can make it due to previous commitments, I know its kinda a last minute thing - but I will find the perfect person to go with me I know it - so I am excited about that
• I am looking to get a hairs cut tomorrow - not a hair cut - I have more than one piece of hair on my head - I intend to get them all cut or trimmed at the same sitting therefore "hairs cut"
• I dont think I have anything Thursday - at least not at the moment
• Friday I will be off work at noon - YEE HAW!!! and leave for the Braves game around 6:30 or so I imagine, I think I will attempt to get the grass cut between those things and maybe put some more fertilizer down on the yard as well, after it is cut.
• Does anybody ever look at this blog anyway?????

some random thoughts

okay I am going bullet style here.....

• I REALLY like the house we live in right now
• I also REALLY like the street we live on, we have some awesome neighbors around here
• I REALLY love my wife
• I REALLY love our children
• I am VERY happy with life right now, more so than normal it seems for some reason.
• LATER

Monday the 28th

Well it is just short of eight o'clock this morning right now - I overslept a little bit this morning but thats okay because I set the alarm early enough that if I do oversleep or whatever that I will still likely be on track and not be late for work in the mornings. Well JAMA made it back safe yesterday I was in the yard with the kiddos playing and we were racing around the house again when she arrived so that was some good timing huh? We got a few things painted for her over the weekend and I think she was pretty happy to see them done when she got home. Now I just need to figure out what to do for Mothers Day and her birthday coming up next month. I have an idea or two but if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know.

Sunday the 27th

It is just after a quarter past two right now on Sunday afternoon. I am expecting to get a call or see my great bride any time now. They should be done up there I think based on past weekend it should be a similar schedule they are following this weekend. Well my in-laws kept the kiddos overnite last nite and I went to church this morning and it felt kinda weird being there by myself without Jennifer and without the kiddos. I imagine we will be back to normal next Sunday with all of us there again. I will be glad when she gets back with us here, things aren't the same without her around here thats for sure. Its been a somewhat productive weekend around here, we got most of the weeds picked out of the yard and got a couple of special things done for Jennifer while she has been out, I hope she likes them when she sees them later today. Well the kiddos are starting to act up a little bit so I need to check on them. LATER

Thursday the 24th

Well I am at work right now, taking a little break that is - in an attempt to keep this thing current and possibly somewhat interesting for others to read....It is near a quarter after two right now and my lovely bride has reached her retreat location earlier today and Im sure enjoying it already - I am busy as always here at work right now and am looking forward to hanging out with the kiddos for a few days while mommy is at the retreat - should be a good time for all of us - well onward and upward LATER

Tuesday the 22nd

Well this was my first day back to work from a three day spiritual retreat and I am happy to say that my desk was not slammed with folders when I got there this morning - that seems to happen all too often when a little vacation is taken. Around this neighborhood Tuesdays are trash day, so I usually pull the trash container down in the morning before I leave for work. Well yesterday I pulled it down in the evening because I was testing the trash pickup company to see if they would take everything I had placed by the curb and next to the trash container. You see I did a little bit of cleaning up yesterday and basically had two larger pieces of trash that I could have easily taken to the dump, but thats not much fun and I'm really not sure where the closest dump is to our house, maybe HWY 92? So anyway I had the trash bin there with the top not closed all the way because we had so many bags of trash in it. I also had an old (cheap) wooden table sitting upside down with a large plastic snap top container that had long since served its purpose. The top of this thing was busted in two, the latches had been long since busted and the container was labeled in black marker as "MISC. CRAP" Clearly items that were not worth keeping around, and in the ever constant battle for more room in a house many of these things were chunked to the trash. Well the good news is that the trash people took it all!!! I came home from work and all that was by the curb was the empty trash container. I was happy about that one. I feel like I sorta snuk one under the radar. Changing subjects here - Jennifer leaves for her retreat this Thursday and will return sometime Sunday evening. I know that she is looking forward to it and she certainly deserves a little break from the normal around here, I think that this retreat will be very beneficial to her much as my retreat was beneficial to me. Well I feel I have rambled on enough for now. Lets see if anybody reads this stuff.

first post by me on my blog....

well i am pretty much a rookie at this thing - there are a good couple of other blogs that i read, we will see if anybody looks at mine or not....well today is monday (yes i hardly ever capitalize anything because i dont much like holding down the shift key to capitalize a letter and we all know that typing in all caps is not smiled upon) and i had today off work as well, i have been off since last thursday - i participated in a church based retreat and worked in the kitchen - its a little tough feeding around 120 mouths a day three times a day - especially if you are on cooking for breakfast - your looking at 5:45 at the latest before you fire up the stove top and get the coffee brewing up....so anyway yeah im pretty darn tired from it but yes i am much refreshed in my spirit and feel my relationship with God (I do capitalize that) has been refreshed and renewed again, so those are very good things indeed. I was very blessed when i got back home yesterday to see that my wife with a little bit of help had started and done a real good bit of putting pine bark nuggets around the whole yard and the islands and all of that stuff. So that is the main thing i have worked on today is finishing that job up for the most part. I (I usually do capitalize at the beginning of sentences) went to the new depot this morning and bought 20 more bags of pine bark nuggets and have 3 of them still unopened at the moment. Based on the $ spent for this so far it is coming a little below what having some delivered here would have cost. So thats a good thing i figure. Well its only 8:19 right now, but i can hardly keep my eyes open. I think im gonna go read something and may well fall asleep for the night. I reckon I still have some sleep to catch up on.

Ok I set it up

Ok I set it up for you, now it is time to start blogging, Brandon!!!