Magic Piscoya October 6, 1995- May 19, 2009

Our beloved dog, Magic, has to be put to sleep today. It's a sad day for all of us. The 4 older kids have all grown up with her and Ethan and Samantha will not even remember her. Abby, her puppy who never left the nest, will miss her terribly, I'm sure. We console ourselves by thinking how happy she will be in the afterlife since we believe that God would never leave our pets out of heaven. We imagine her romping joyfully with other dogs and hunting to her heart's content, eating popcorn and apples, cheese and peanut butter and whatever else she can find! If there are garbage bags in heaven, I'm sure she'll find them and get into them too. There are no gates, no closed doors, no leashes, no baths, no pain.

Rest in peace, Magic. We'll miss you.

My One and Only on our 15th Wedding Anniversary (Bridget)

Please indulge me as I wax mushy on the subject of my sweet husband today. This is our 15th anniversary and I love him more now than I did on the day we married. I still remember that day (duh, who doesn't remember their wedding day?) :) I didn't sleep much the night before. I went down to breakfast and could only get a few sips of coffee and a bite of a muffin down. I was SO nervous. It felt so right to stand there next to Lonny in front of the altar in the church I attended as a child. I received all the sacraments in that very church - baptism, confession, first communion, confirmation and finally, matrimony. The wedding was beautiful and I still think it was so nice that we had friends from all the stages of our lives there to witness our marriage. The weather was sunny with a cool breeze - much warmer than it had been the day before. Anyway, that was the day we became "one" and though it hasn't always been easy, we have remained "one" all these years.
Marriage is tough - there are no two ways about it. But we grow every time we make it through a rough patch. We have to try not to let life get in the way of caring for each other because if we stop showing each other how much we care in little ways throughout the day, we end up drifting apart and no longer acting as one.
I hardly ever say it but I notice the little things Lonny does for me and they make a HUGE difference in my day and in my life. I notice that when I heave an exhausted sigh in the wee hours of the morning when I've fed Samantha but she just won't go back to sleep, my husband's feet find mine as if to say, "I'm here with you." I notice when he sees that my cell phone needs charging and puts it on the charger for me. I notice when he offers to go to the store for me when I've run out of some ingredient that I need for dinner. I notice when he leaves work early to chauffeur the kids to their activities. I notice that he gets up in the morning on the weekends with Ethan and lets me sleep in. I notice when he brings me coffee on those days. I notice all the things he does around the house. He truly is "my handyman." I notice the ways that he shows the kids how much he loves them and that makes me feel loved too.
I hope that my one and only notices the little things I do for him and that he feels loved. Because I love him with all my heart.

Hobby tron.com (Nicholas)

Hobbytron .com is a good place to buy anything for your hobby but I go there for the airsoft! You can buy pistols for a buck fifty!!!(not incuding shipping) I bought an airsoft shotgun there, but it has not come yet. NOTE:DO NOT EXPECT THE THING YOU BOUGHT TO GET THERE WHEN THEY SAY IT WILL!!



~Nicholas

Money Season (hopefully)

Spring is in the air! And you know what that means? Its time to rake those leaves you forgot to rake last fall!! Don't want too?? We`ll do it for you!! That's how we get money! The three of us go door to door asking people if they want us to rake their lawns!We`re really raking in the dough,heh,heh...



Nicholas~

TOTAL AIRSOFT WAR!!!!

Since Matthew and I bought airsoft guns the whole neighborhood exploded into TOTAL AIRSOFT WAR!!!!!!! Right after we bought airsoft guns we found out our nextdoor neighbor had a couple, then our other neighbor got three!! Then Daniel`s gun broke and I gave him mine and just ordered an airsoft shotgun form an awsome airsoft website! We have been having airsoft wars almost every weekend now and everybody keeps upgrading their wepons and just making the TOTAL AIRSOFT WAR bigger!!


Nicholas~

The Moho (Bridget...who else)

Lonny got back with the RV last Sunday! It's a beaut - and it fits in our side driveway without having to cut down any trees. Yay! The kids spent the night in it the first couple of nights and have been doing their schoolwork in there as well. I may invest in a Do Not Disturb sign and lock myself in there from time to time!

Summer! At least temporarily...(Bridget)

We had the most gorgeous day today - 77 degrees and sun, sun, sun! I went out and did yard work for about 2 hours while the babies were sleeping and I have the blisters to prove it. I even hung a load of clothes out for the first time in a long time. I'm sure I won't have time to do it every day like I wish I could but maybe once school is over.... Lonny and I took Ethan and Samantha for a walk this afternoon and saw a robin at the tippy-top of a tree just singing at the top of his little lungs. That's what this weather makes me feel like doing too. I know that I'd feel a lot less energetic if I woke up after very few consecutive hours of sleep every night to darkness and cold instead of bright sunshine and warm(ish) weather. If only my body didn't require sleep; there's so much I feel like doing! Actually, it's not so much my lack of sleep that's keeping me from doing what I want, it's lack of time. When Lonny is home he can hold Sam and help with Ethan but if I have to do it all, there's very little time left for anything else.