I would like to start this out by saying that we have the best kids in the world. No bragging, no kidding. They went more than five hours in the car, from Tacoma to La Grande, Oregon without a stop. Ok, having a DVD player in the car helps, but they didn’t watch movies the […]

Tomorrow we leave for Boise at 6 am. The kids are in bed, the car is prepped, the house is cleaned, arrangements are made for people to be here, and Barbara-Lee is packing. Yup, in our household I’m usually responsible for my clothes and she gets everyone else ready. And I’m barely able to get […]

Well, we’re done with the festivities (but not the bowl games–how dumb is that?). It’s time to move forward with the year and start moving ahead. Some of our big steps in 2010: 1. Tim has a thesis to write (well, actually to propose, get accepted, then write). 2. We have 5 months of reporting […]

Well what to say. We’re here in Tacoma for Thanksgiving for the first time since before Drew was born. We’re at Opa’s and Grandma’s (Glessner) house with Jana and Josh & Laura & Sophie & Uncle Ron & Aunt Ruth. Fun! We started off with the FBUP Turkey Trot, well, Tim & Jana. It was […]

Well, the Fireballs won tonight, after a bit of a drought. It was a 2-0 “mauling” of the Cougars (who, I believe were our other victims), Again, Kayla scored both goals. Drew, while shoing no scorers instinct, was absolutely all over the place. Side to side, front to back. It seemed like he’d kick the […]

We had a great trip over the mountains to Connell. I think it was actually quite a bit faster (excluding snow and KFC stops) than Google Maps allows, and, yes, that’s mostly a speed=limit-following Tim. There was snow falling over the pass so we broke two rules: 1. We stopped against all instinct and played […]

Some random musings and family news: We’re going to our last church of the year, Connell, on Saturday. We’re driving over Snoqualmie Pass, probably through snow. It’s about a 4 hour trip, if all goes well. Then…we’re off until next…? We’ve had a brutal time trying to schedule churches for next year. There’s just not […]

Ok, this is just an excuse now to be posting. The Fireballs tied one for the Gipper tonight, 3-3. They played hard and were pretty worn down at the end of the game (they’ve missed Bill, one of the stronger players for the two games this week). So the Rebels were on the attack most […]

Drew’s soccer team, the Fireballs, earned their first win of the season (in the second game), 1-0 over the Cougars. It was a hard-fought battle, with Keila (Kayla?) opportunistically scoring the only goal when two opposing players fell down. Everybody on the team played great, though, in the ever-so-objective view of this observer, Drew was […]

Well, we made it to Tacoma safely.  What a trip!  We’re thankful, very thankful, for the uneventful travels and good times at our various stops.  Even the two rainy thunderstorm-y nights in our tent weren’t too bad.  They could have been way worse, and now we’ve got a good start on camping built into our […]