the Holiday-ly Durias

Entries from September 2007

Protender

September 30, 2007 · 2 Comments

Paige (4):  Dad.  Pretend I found you in the woods and I cleaned you up and then I married you.

Categories: Paige

Chicken

September 28, 2007 · 3 Comments

While Mindy was dressing the chicken to bake for dinner…

Makaena:  Mom, isn’t it disgusting to have your bare hands all over and inside a dead chicken?!
Mindy:  Not really.
Makaena:  YUCK! I sure hope that Jesus comes back before I have to be a grown up.

Categories: Makaena · Mindy

Mind Reader

September 27, 2007 · 4 Comments

Ian (thinking, but not out loud):  I could really go for a piece of Chocolate Cinnamon Bread from Starbucks right now.
Mindy:  Did you know that I got a whole loaf of Starbucks’ Chocolate Cinnamon Bread?

Categories: Ian · Mindy

I just told the kids…

September 25, 2007 · 1 Comment

…that I had a surprise coming for them in the mail. I told them that it’d be here in about a week and that it’s for all of us to share. And that they could try to guess what it is as much as they wanted to.

Aidan: Is it cable?

Categories: Aidan

A Saturday In The Fall

September 24, 2007 · 2 Comments

Oh.  And more pictures here.

Categories: Ian · Makaena · Pictures

Whiffle Ball

September 22, 2007 · 2 Comments

I told Makaena (8) that I’d give her five bucks if she could hit my curve ball.

Do you have five bucks I could borrow?

Categories: Ian · Makaena

OMSI

September 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Our first field trip of the year! (No permission slips necessary, if ya know what I mean.)  Click here to see.

Categories: Aidan · Makaena · Mindy · Pictures

Birthday Recap

September 19, 2007 · 6 Comments

Grandpa Bob, Grandma Bobbie, babysit, Mindy, Ian, Oba, surprise, Elisabeth & Jon, Tonya & Ben, Mel(ody), happy, dinner, dessert, presents, fun, hugs, deepest thanks to all.

Oh. And Mindy got tickets to the now sold-out (forever since this is her last year) Celine Dion show in Vegas.

I hope she takes me.

Categories: Mindy

Speaking of birthdays…

September 17, 2007 · 15 Comments

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MINDY!!! 

Oh the places we’ll go…

Categories: Mindy

Eloise

September 15, 2007 · 1 Comment

Mia, Paigey, and I just got back from Eloise’s second birthday party. I went to college with Eloise’s dad, Dave. Today was the first time that either of us saw any of each other’s kids. Undeniable fun.

Also, it was kind of like a Blogger/WordPress sponsored event. Kate, Dave’s wife, and Jodi, Dave’s friend Jace’s wife (insert camp (Firwood) names here), both have insightful blogs that we frequent keeping us in relative touch. I found myself regularly following-up my own “blah-blah-blah” with “but you already knew that.”

Categories: Ian