Yes, I've done it.
Take that corporate America.
3 days.
3 posts.
Now I'm back on average to one per month.
Eat it!
Ok, so I have to have some content. Katie and I were meandering on nice car ride today like good married young adults with children are supposed to do. Fa-la-la-la-la, drive by a house here and house there, and all of a sudden there is house that is 100% completely on fire. Head to toe. Burnin' like a motha to the ground. Hot diggity!
Now, I've never seen a house fire, much less an entire house on fire, but sweet lord it was site to behold. Someone's life has been tragically impacted: The terror, stress, emotion, sadness. And here's the ironic part: no further than 35 yards from this blazing ball of fire are 100+ people standing by, watching the fire with smiles on their faces. It seems so inappropriate. But I guess that's the role of being a spectator. So, I guess there should be a moral to this story, so, um, the next time you have a fire in your house, make sure to put it out before the whole house lights up.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
ND Tickets - Quote of the weekend
Well, ND pooped on Vnak yet again. Another years of donations, another of year of no tickee. Unbelievable. From what I've heard, even Sorin Society members got screwed, and that cost $1,000. Oh well, I'll still be at a game this year university so your attempts at removing me from the stadium are futile, futile I say!
With regard to getting no tickets, I have to give credit to Philip Wells, Falto extradonaire, who summed up his results so beautifully suscint that the Master of Brevity himself, Ben Merello, would be proud.
Philip expounded on the Falto listserv "The lottery gods smote me with NO tickets this year. Like a battered wife, I blame myself. "
Genius.
PS: I don't know how to use spell check.
With regard to getting no tickets, I have to give credit to Philip Wells, Falto extradonaire, who summed up his results so beautifully suscint that the Master of Brevity himself, Ben Merello, would be proud.
Philip expounded on the Falto listserv "The lottery gods smote me with NO tickets this year. Like a battered wife, I blame myself. "
Genius.
PS: I don't know how to use spell check.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Happy 4th of July!
Well, well, 3 months have come to pass since we last updated the blog. What does that mean? Well, probably only one or two people will randomly check this. Either way we will make an update for those of you still showing some love.
A lot happens in 3 months, and are lives are no exception, so we will do the best to update the important news. Katie and I enjoy the blog, but there is barely time to get anything done much less update this on a regular basis. So, Katie and I are going to try to both post so that there is 1) some degree of frequency for updates, and 2) some diversity in opinion.
Oh Lawd, where do we start?
THe boys: every month, every week and every day bring something new. The boys are crawling, climbing, and talking like crazy. The only walking they do is along the furniture and occassionally a few steps here and there. The steps just started in the last week, which we are excited about, but downright terrified of. We have friends who have twin boys who are walking, and let's just say, we are in for a world of hurt. It will be exciting. In the middle of May, the boys got the rotavirus, which is a terrible, terrible stomach flu. It lasted and week for the boys and also attacked Mom and Dad. The boys like to say "Oh oh" "oh no" "Mom" "Dad" "Up" "Hot" "All Done". We've been trying to teach them sign language and they have the sign for "More" down pretty good. One of the biggest challenges now is the boys start to point and moan when they want something, but you as a parent have no idea what it is. And they don't stop until they get what they want. It's actually pretty entertaining if you aren't Mom or Dad. We celebrated their first birthday three weeks late. Way to go parents! We actually have very good reasons for being so delinquent: 1) the rotavirus, and numbers two and three are described below. The party was good fun: balloons, cake, inflatable monkeys, sausage, strippers, the essential party fare. Watching the boys eat their birthday cake was a blast. Tom picked up his entire piece and tried to eat it. The pictures below tell the story far better. In the last two weeks we've taken the boys swimming twice at Aunt Kelly and Uncle Keith's swimming abode which has turned out to be a bunch of fun for everybody. THe boys had their first haircut yesterday which was a few weeks overdue. Gone are the days of long hair over the ears and mohawks. Sexy is back and it's name is Vnak, Tom and Joe Vnak.
As for the family as a whole, we have been extremely busy since the beginning of May. We have been passively looking for a house. By passively I mean we are perfectly happy where we are living, but if the perfect home came about, we would jump on it. Well, the perfect home came about. Basically, my Dad found out about the house word of mouth and we looked at it like 4 times before we jumped on it. The big kicker is that no realtors were involved, so there were some big time savings involved. Once we move in, I'll take pictures and post them. So this whole process took about 3 weeks from the initial viewing to the final negotiations.
We went to Nick and Jen Kimlingers wedding at ND which was blast.
Did I mention the boys had the rotavirus? Ugh, it was bad.
So then we had to work are arse off to get our house in shape for being on the market. So, in about one week we half moved out of our place and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned. The townhouse was on the market for 30 days and we had 3 open houses and about a dozen separate showings, but we just received and accepted an offer, so the townhome is officially sold. Let me tell you, keeping your house in pristine shape with two one year olds is no fun, so we are glad to be done.
We are excited to move on to the new home, but it is a big memory jerker when you start to think back about the old home. It was our first place after we were married. We remodeled the place from head to toe over 2.5 years, and then we had a first children there. It's a great place, and we will miss it, but the future will be fantastic and place we are moving to will be a great next step. It's a very family friendly street with an elementary school at the end of it, so we will be able to walk the boys to school. Change, in this case, is good.
So really, that's taken up the last few months. Now that townhome is sold we can worry less about cleaning and enjoy the rest of the summer, that is before we move.
Below are a bunch of pictures from the past few months, enjoy:
Here they are in their new Aussie hats!
Here's Tom when he first went swimming.
Here's a closer pic.
There's Joe and Tom together
Here they are laughing it up in a chair!
Birthday picture on the actual date of their birthday, not the delayed party.
Here's what I do when I get five minutes to myself, which is a rare occurance.
I told you I wasn't fibbing about the inflatable monkeys
Tom after cake anhiliation!
Joe afte cake destruction!
Easter rabbit ears!
Tom slamming a Sunkist.
Bath time with nephew Braden in middle
Money!
3 generations of Vnak men playing the piano!
A lot happens in 3 months, and are lives are no exception, so we will do the best to update the important news. Katie and I enjoy the blog, but there is barely time to get anything done much less update this on a regular basis. So, Katie and I are going to try to both post so that there is 1) some degree of frequency for updates, and 2) some diversity in opinion.
Oh Lawd, where do we start?
THe boys: every month, every week and every day bring something new. The boys are crawling, climbing, and talking like crazy. The only walking they do is along the furniture and occassionally a few steps here and there. The steps just started in the last week, which we are excited about, but downright terrified of. We have friends who have twin boys who are walking, and let's just say, we are in for a world of hurt. It will be exciting. In the middle of May, the boys got the rotavirus, which is a terrible, terrible stomach flu. It lasted and week for the boys and also attacked Mom and Dad. The boys like to say "Oh oh" "oh no" "Mom" "Dad" "Up" "Hot" "All Done". We've been trying to teach them sign language and they have the sign for "More" down pretty good. One of the biggest challenges now is the boys start to point and moan when they want something, but you as a parent have no idea what it is. And they don't stop until they get what they want. It's actually pretty entertaining if you aren't Mom or Dad. We celebrated their first birthday three weeks late. Way to go parents! We actually have very good reasons for being so delinquent: 1) the rotavirus, and numbers two and three are described below. The party was good fun: balloons, cake, inflatable monkeys, sausage, strippers, the essential party fare. Watching the boys eat their birthday cake was a blast. Tom picked up his entire piece and tried to eat it. The pictures below tell the story far better. In the last two weeks we've taken the boys swimming twice at Aunt Kelly and Uncle Keith's swimming abode which has turned out to be a bunch of fun for everybody. THe boys had their first haircut yesterday which was a few weeks overdue. Gone are the days of long hair over the ears and mohawks. Sexy is back and it's name is Vnak, Tom and Joe Vnak.
As for the family as a whole, we have been extremely busy since the beginning of May. We have been passively looking for a house. By passively I mean we are perfectly happy where we are living, but if the perfect home came about, we would jump on it. Well, the perfect home came about. Basically, my Dad found out about the house word of mouth and we looked at it like 4 times before we jumped on it. The big kicker is that no realtors were involved, so there were some big time savings involved. Once we move in, I'll take pictures and post them. So this whole process took about 3 weeks from the initial viewing to the final negotiations.
We went to Nick and Jen Kimlingers wedding at ND which was blast.
Did I mention the boys had the rotavirus? Ugh, it was bad.
So then we had to work are arse off to get our house in shape for being on the market. So, in about one week we half moved out of our place and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned. The townhouse was on the market for 30 days and we had 3 open houses and about a dozen separate showings, but we just received and accepted an offer, so the townhome is officially sold. Let me tell you, keeping your house in pristine shape with two one year olds is no fun, so we are glad to be done.
We are excited to move on to the new home, but it is a big memory jerker when you start to think back about the old home. It was our first place after we were married. We remodeled the place from head to toe over 2.5 years, and then we had a first children there. It's a great place, and we will miss it, but the future will be fantastic and place we are moving to will be a great next step. It's a very family friendly street with an elementary school at the end of it, so we will be able to walk the boys to school. Change, in this case, is good.
So really, that's taken up the last few months. Now that townhome is sold we can worry less about cleaning and enjoy the rest of the summer, that is before we move.
Below are a bunch of pictures from the past few months, enjoy:
Here they are in their new Aussie hats!
Here's Tom when he first went swimming.
Here's a closer pic.
There's Joe and Tom together
Here they are laughing it up in a chair!
Birthday picture on the actual date of their birthday, not the delayed party.
Here's what I do when I get five minutes to myself, which is a rare occurance.
I told you I wasn't fibbing about the inflatable monkeys
Tom after cake anhiliation!
Joe afte cake destruction!
Easter rabbit ears!
Tom slamming a Sunkist.
Bath time with nephew Braden in middle
Money!
3 generations of Vnak men playing the piano!
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