Mike on January 30th, 2005

I spoke about this once upon a time, but I haven’t been able to get the photo albums up until now. I took a few pictures for each child of mine, and made a little “pop up” photo album. If you have a pop-up blocker on your browser, you’ll need to hold [...]

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Mike on January 29th, 2005

Chateau LaRonde on Friday afternoon
Well a week has passed and we are not in the new house yet. Apparently “we” are not quite finished with some critical items. I know this will shock everyone as much as it shocked me. We were supposed to close yesterday afternoon, but after our visit on [...]

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Mike on January 21st, 2005

Guentzelhaus has grass and shrubs. If that’s Pampass grass, I’ll pull it up myself.
It’s Friday! We have a ton of work ahead of us this weekend, but we decided to let all of that begin tomorrow. Tonight, we went to see the new house and find out what kind of progress they’ve [...]

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Mike on January 16th, 2005

The new Casa Guentzel – T minus 8 days and counting…
We took another walk through of the house today. Slowly but surely, things are falling into place. Aside from a ding in the bathtub and the completely wrong kitchen sink, things are almost there. The builder said that we should expect our [...]

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Mike on January 13th, 2005

Erik cautiously tries something new
We had a few firsts tonight. Erik tried solid food for the first time and Emma tried barbecue for the first time. I’m pleased to report that both experiments turned out well.
The doctor told us to go ahead and try solids with Erik given that he’s eating quite [...]

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Mike on January 10th, 2005

Across the room, Erik eyes a turkey leg that no one is eating.
I think we may be in trouble. Erik went to his 4 month appointment today and we got some rather shocking news. I’ll let Susan’s email explain it:

Erik is a Guentzel.
Just got back from his 4-month check up [...]

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Mike on January 9th, 2005

The Über-Sister can play basketball.
This weekend with Kayla was special in a number of ways.
On Saturday, Kayla had a basketball game at the gym in Leander and she played an outstanding game. She learned what the phrase “physical game” means. She was paired up with the biggest girl on the other [...]

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