http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org Life, the Universe, and Everything... plus Penguins. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:54:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [No you can't see me back-posting this!] Ben had a wonderful party this past weekend. My now little 7 year old's chosen theme was all about pirates. We got very piratety decorations, put out the piratety toys, and I baked a piratey cake - a treasure chest no doubt! This one took a ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/07/16/happy-birthday-benjamin-2/ How is he one year old already? Who let this happen? Mandy says she blames me and she might as well should. I keep letting these kids grow older and older. Nicky's birthday party was last Saturday and a good time was had by the birthday boy. I swear as ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/05/09/happy-birthday-nicholas/ Thursday was "Bring Your Child to Work Day". This is the first year that I've been able to participate father-wise. The past years, I've participated on behalf of the company with our laptop teardowns. This year, they didn't plan anything truly special which, I think, is kind of sad. Overall, ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/04/27/bring-your-child-to-work-day/ Bowling (IRL) As a special treat, we took the kids to the bowling alley on Tuesday. Obviously, Wii Bowling is a lot different than real life bowling. Even so, the boys seemed to bowl better than usual. Jake's working on rolling it with one arm. Ben seems to be enjoying ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/04/15/spring-break-wrap-up/ Well, tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day and Ben had to make a leprechaun trap for school like Jacob did last year. With Jake's and my help we built one. And how! Let the video show what we've come up with this year. http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/03/16/to-catch-a-leprechaun/ On Saturday, we signed up with membership at our local YMCA. The membership fee itself wasn't too bad and since we're going to be out of the credit card hassle, it shouldn't be a problem. One of the things we would like to attain is a more active lifestyle for ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/03/05/joined-the-ymca/ Jury Duty In the mail yesterday, I received a summons to serve as a juror at the county court each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the entire month of March. Of course, I'll call the previous night to see if I need to come in but still. Wow. I'm going to ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/02/23/jury-duty-and-bowling/ We went to the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery last night. Every third Tuesday of the month is family night at the Boonshoft. Families are admitted free from 4-8pm. It's a great deal, especially since kids love going there.  With new camera in hand, I was able to take some decent ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/02/21/boonshoft-museum-visit/ What? Did I forget to update this thing again? Darn it all to heck. I suppose I'm due to update the world on how we've been doing for the past month. Things have been fairly busy - some of our time productive, some of it not so much. Here you ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/02/19/the-whenever-update/ No, no, no. Not me. The web site moved. After some pain and some gain, I have successfully migrated this web site to my dad's web server. I'm still using the same name, all of the adjustments have been done. It was lots of fun, actually, because I had to ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2007/01/15/moved-back-in-with-my-parents/ After nearly a week of waiting, Abigail had her fourth birthday party today. This morning, we started on her cake. Not just a cake. A pink cake. A pink strawberry cake with pink strawberry frosting! I even carved it into a heart shape for her. I'm no Duff Goldman but ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2006/12/30/abigails-birthday-party/ Five thirty. 5:30am. There wasn't even a glimmer of daylight outside but the kids got us up and we proceeded with seeing what Santa had brought the children this year. Abi could be heard in the living room yelling, "It's pink! And I can ride it!" I didn't see anyway ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2006/12/25/happy-christmahanakwansakah/ Our little girl is four years old today. Why oh why? Who let this happen? Her birthday party isn't until Saturday but she'll be preoccupied with Christmas to notice, I think. Christmas Eve is always a busy day for us. We started off our day going to Mandy's grandparents' house ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2006/12/24/christmas-eve/ My company sponsors a children's holiday party every year and this year they had it at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton. We've been there plenty of times but the kids really enjoy going anytime we get a chance. Especially with free admission, how could we say no? Off ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2006/12/16/kids-holiday-party-boonshoft/ Once Thanksgiving is over, it's time for me to listen to holiday music until at least Christmas Day when I'm in my car. The radio station is locked onto WLQT and it will not budge until New Year's! With all of the Christmassy music and carols, I sometimes may put ... http://penguin-xing.no-ip.org/2006/12/01/i-love-christmas-music/