on sunday, around 11 am, we decided to pack it up (pack it in) and head to the north carolina zoo. it’s about an hour away and we have a family membership, so it would be a cheap and easy family adventure. here’s my gang rolling in… while anna knew that the zoo was where […]
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memorial (satur)day family tanglewood visit.

we kicked off our memorial day weekend with a little outing to tanglewood park. apparently, we did the same thing last year. this time, though, we brought lucy along, to test out the new dog park. before lidkids, we used to take lucy to dog parks pretty regularly. back then, she was a young pup […]
slow saturday random post

a slow saturday morning = blog update opportunities… not much going on around here. nice weather rolling in, so lots of outside time. example. we hit up the cobblestone farmers market. which is decidedly less cobblestone-y this year and a little more concrete-y, since they moved it away from krankie’s. oh well. we got some […]
big fat family vacation.

last thursday, we departed for a big fat family vacation to the mountains. derek’s parents and his sister’s family stayed in a cabin and our family stayed in a nearby little condo/apartment type setup. nearby like less than 100 yards. it was my fourth weekend vacation in as many weekends. we kicked off the trip […]
charlotte family saturday.

with no pressing engagements or cakes or other such things to suck up our time this weekend, we decided to head south the the queen city of charlotte north carolina to check out the discovery place museum and possibly ikea. we’ve never been with our own kids, but i went with jake about 7 or […]
winter mountain visit.

last weekend, derek actually took a day off and we headed to the mountains of the boone (and banner elk and blowing rock) area. we mostly lounged around our little condo for friday, after taking our sweet time getting there. (we stopped for some shopping and lunch). on saturday, we loaded up and headed to […]
oh christmas tree. 2012 edition.

finally. thanksgiving is over. and it’s socially acceptable to listen to christmas music. and put up decorations. i may or may not have already starting the former. the latter we attended to yesterday and today… rather than hit up any black friday (thursday?) sales, we rolled the mile-ish into downtown (ha!) lewisville to our favorite […]
patterson farms IV

yesterday, we made our annual-ish trip to patterson farms for some fall time fun. and i took exactly one jillion pictures to document it. last year, the eating situation was disastrous. we waited in line for like an hour for some terrible hot dogs and hamburgers. so, we decided to eat on the way this […]
a feeble attempt to cover the last few weeks.

when i went to post the back to school post, i realized it’s been quite a long time since my last post. then, i started a miscellaneous post and realized that i hadn’t posted pics of the coop or discussed the tragic details of the lucy-chicken incident. so, those events aside, i am now posting […]