on saturday, i loaded up ike and anna for a day trip to raleigh to visit sarahpowers and max. she had some important baby items for me, and we hadn’t been out there since max was born, almost 2 years ago. i used to live in the raleigh area (cary, raleigh, north raleigh, morrisville, etc). […]
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meeting max
Over the weekend, the lid kids and I loaded up and rode to Raleigh to meet max. As expected, he was cute and tiny and wrinkly and very much a brand new baby. He liked his quilt: Sarah’s parents stopped in to see us all and met Anna for the first time. We strolled down […]
state fair.
sunday, after church, isaac and i jetted off to raleigh to visit sarahpowers and make a trip to the state fair… here are some shots of our adventures. sweet motorcycles:obligatory merry-go-round ride:airplanes:first ever ferris wheel ride. (side note: it cost 5 tickets ($5) per person to ride the ferris wheel. for the mathematically challenged, it […]
surprise 50th birthday cupcake tower
yesterday, i loaded up 14 boxes of cupcakes, a tower, one cake, lots of decorations and backup frosting and headed to durham to assemble this cake tower for my old (former) pastor’s surprise 50th birthday party. i was thankful that, despite the poor suspension in my dear old isuzu rodeo, the cupcakes made it with […]
visiting sarahpowers
yesterday, we spontaneously drove to raleigh to visit sarahpowers. we stopped on the way, and had lunch with nearly the entire minor family, which is quite big these days. anyhoo, here are some shots: playing on a tree root: sarahpowers, riding a chicken toy: the horse toy: just a cute smile shot: […]
sarahpowers visit
let me start off by saying that this will be the first of many blog posts, attempting to catch up (hopefully in chronological order) the events of the preceding week or so…. last weekend, we took off down the highway to visit sarahpowers and other raleigh friends. here’s some pics from that trip… isaac with […]
the past 7 days…
…have been sort of busy, i guess. derek and i did a lot of work in the garden over the weekend. hopefully, we’ve created a system that will help us ward off the crabgrass for long enough to yield some tasty vegetables. isaac and i trekked to raleigh on sunday for an overnight trip with […]
Raleigh Trip Update
Isaac and I returned from Raleigh this morning.It was an action packed adventure. We rolled in on Saturday night, after a relatively uneventful trip. We played and got some food and Isaac went to bed. Then we watched a movie. Correction: Sarah and Jack watched a movie. I fell asleep. On Sunday, we went to […]
Raleigh Bound…. I hope…
In an hour or so, Isaac and I will be heading out for Raleigh, North Carolina. He’s taking a nap right now. Or trying to anyways. It’s like this….It’s almost as if he knows that something is going to be happening. On days when I would really really like for him to get good rest […]
Adventures in the Triangle
On Sunday, Isaac and I made the long trek to the Raleigh/Durham region. We just came back last night and we’re both still recovering from our wild adventure. We got in around 7:30 pm and went to my old church and visited some old pals there. Then, we went over to the Minors to visit […]