Wordless- Punkin Smooches

(taken in 2004)

You have gas?

I wrote this on facebook, and now I'm here. The gas leak is freaking me out! If I had to put the afternoon in order, without putting it in sentence form, here is what it would look like...

- perhaps I should go to school to get Juliana, even though she rode her bike.

- Get in car. Almost at school, notice gas smell, and think, hmmm, that's odd.

- Arrive at stop light near school, and see hundreds of people scattered EVERYWHERE.

- Park at the furthest parking space and wonder what in the world school has done with kids that rode bikes to school.

- Become reassured by friends that ALL kids have to be released to a parent.

- Make eye contact with a very terrified Juliana.

- Hugs and reassurance from teacher and principal for Juliana.

- Get in car to go home without bike, helmet, and backpack.

- I still smell gas. I hear sirens.

- Do homework.

- Pick up bike from racks.

- See kids and teachers still in the evacuation area waiting to go home almost 2 hours later.

- STILL smell gas.

The San Bruno gas explosion is not far from here whatsoever. It is very fresh in all of our minds. The smell of gas is still there, and it is quite scary. Clearly, we are all fine right now. Perhaps I'm just a bit paranoid at the moment.

Life

Our lives these days have been borrrrrrrrrring, as far as blogging material. While I get we do not lead extraordinarily exciting lives, I can usually pull out some decent material to blog about... nope, not this time. This is what we've been up to...

Playing with birthday presents,

and a whole lotta bike riding/outdoor time.

All stirred up

The school honeymoon period has come to an end and I DO NOT LIKE IT!

Bless this Child, pleeeeease!?!

I had to post this before I forget it...

While in the car on monday on the way home from Juliana's choir practice, Kevin asks Juliana a couple questions about church. This is more or less how it played out...

Kev: "Juliana, do you use that water near the door?"

Juliana: "Yeah, you do this with it. In the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit."

Kev: "I don't get it."

Juliana: "Touch your forehead, chest, shoulder, shoulder, like this."

Kev: "Whatever! I like head, shoulders, knees n' toes much better!!!!"

It is a good thing he started Faith Formation aka CCD last week. I can only imagine what his teachers are going to hear from him. Ohhhhhhh boy!

Couple more

Birthday parties are such a stress, and so fantastic too. Kevin actually cracked me up yesterday because this gathering could have been any day of the year, and he would have loved it just as much. Other than the cake, there really wasn't anything that made him stand out. We decided to open gifts at home as we always do. Not all the kids understood, but that works best for our family, sooooo, that's what we do.

Enjoy a couple more pictures from Kevin's 5th b'day party...

(almost a whole group shot. About 4 kids had left once this was taken.)

This is one of the reasons

the fog has lifted.

(more pictures another day)